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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
I am a global-change macroecologist with research interests that span the fields of biogeography, macroecology, conservation biology, global change biology, and numerical and statistical ecology. My research focuses on the impact of global change on species and communities of terrestrial vertebrates 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 focuses on bird and plant assemblages and examines how geographic distributions and the structure and composition of communities have responded to changing climate and land-use patterns.
- Predicting how changing climate and land-use patterns are likely to impact biological diversity in the future. This work is conducted at a global extent and addresses the long-term consequences for species and communities of birds, mammals, and amphibians.
- 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 over space.
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