Portfolio

Biodiversity through space, time and sound: Investigating scale of effect, fragmentation and matrix quality in the Atlantic Forest.

This research investigates the long-term ecological consequences of habitat fragmentation and matrix quality on biodiversity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot critically threatened by anthropogenic change. This research also aims to disentangle habitat loss and fragmentation.

The effects of landscape heterogeneity on butterfly richness, abundance, and community composition across an agricultural to exurban gradient. 

Jun. 2023

Working with Dr. Amelie Davis examined the effects of fragmentation through landscape heterogeneity on butterfly community composition. With habitat area held at a constant, we looked at an exurban gradient across an agricultural background in southwestern Ohio, USA.

*Manuscript in preparation

Identifying and analyzing growth patterns of mature secondary forests in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Dec. 2023

A proof of concept for identifying tree height specifically to track secondary growth in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. We will continue to develop methods and plan to publish early next year under Dr. Florencia Sangermano, Geography Department, Clark University.

 *Completed for class work in Advanced Raster class in the Geography Department, Clark University.