Doctoral Research
How does heterogeneity in cities influence wildlife?
How does heterogeneity in cities influence wildlife?
Cities are heterogeneous, living habitats that can have cascading effects on wildlife that inhabit the ecosystem. For my doctoral work at UC Berkeley, I'm interested in working at the cross-section of urban ecology and sociology to understand the effects of complex urban landscapes and anthropogenic/environmental disturbances impacts on wildlife. Specifically, I'm working to understand how social inequity in cities, and social-ecological dynamics generally, underpins wildlife behavior, health, and community dynamics.
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Landscape Differences and Risk-Prone Behavior
Cities provide a model ecosystem to understand the impacts of social-ecological dynamics, with urban systems acting as a dynamic mosaic of pressures that can select for and maintain particular (mal)adaptive traits. For this project, I'm interested in how landscape heterogeneity (and how differences in social-ecological pressures) shape where risk-prone behaviors in mesopredators emerge on landscapes. This work is currently in progress. |
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