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Frank A. La Sorte
Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Section
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I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Jetz Lab at the University of California, San Diego. I earned my Ph.D. in the Boecklen Lab at New Mexico State University studying the impact of anthropogenic activities on the diversity of breeding avifauna in North America.
Research Interests
My research interests span the fields of biogeography, macroecology, conservation biology, global change biology, avian ecology, and numerical and statistical ecology. My current focus is on examining how anthropogenic activities have impacted natural systems at regional and global scales. I am presently developing three lines of inquiry:
- Determining the historical impact of anthropogenic activities on biological diversity. This work examines how geographical distributions and the structure and composition of communities have responded to changing climate and land-use patterns.
- Projecting the future impact of anthropogenic activities for biological diversity. This work is conducted at a global extent and addresses the long-term consequences of climate and land-use change for species and communities.
- Developing analytical tools for the assessment of macroecological patterns and processes. I am working on techniques that capture dynamic patterns of change over time within communities, and techniques that measure broad-scale variation in community structure and composition over space.
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