Research

CLIMATE CHANGE AND EARTH SURFACE DYNAMICS

• Impact of extreme flooding on river environments

• Combined effects of multiple disturbance events

• Salt marshes as potential indicators of global climate change

• Wind-driven sea-level variation and salt marsh dynamics

BIOGEOMORPHOLOGICAL COEVOLUTION

• Toward an inclusive ecosystem engineering concept, combining multiple species interactions

• Simulating biogeomorphological coevolutionary feedback among animals, plants, and the associated bioengineered landforms

• Fluvial biogeomorphology and river restoration

• Trivariate relationships among landforms, vegetation, and soils

SPATIAL MODELING AND STATISTICS

• Applications of machine learning to socio-economic and soil–geomorphic data

• Implications of spatial autocorrelation for model residuals in biogeography: prediction and review

• Incorporation of spatial autocorrelation in soil–landform and water quality modeling

• Spatial and temporal dynamics of plant species richness in salt marshes and sand dunes

• Spatial regression modeling for soil variability

VEGETATION DYNAMICS AND ECOLOGICAL THEORIES

• Salt marsh blue carbon

• Scale-dependent stochastic controls on community assembly

• Modeling long-term vegetation dynamics in salt marshes

• Post-clearance regeneration of coastal dune vegetation

• Characterizing the pathway and rate of vegetation dynamics

• Fire and forest community structure dynamics

• Application of state-and-transition model and graph theory

• Scale-dependent correspondence of floristic and edaphic gradients