Research Themes

• How anthropogenic changes to the environment influence behavior, demography & community patterns
• Trophic relationships in human-dominated landscapes
• Maintenance and variation in plant-animal interaction networks
• Using behavioral variation to understand environmental change
• Effective public outreach and community science

Projects

How nonnative plants affect
food resources for breeding birds

Arthropod habitat relationships

​Interactions between bumblebees
and cavity-nesting birds

Causes and consequences of urban-associated song variation

The ecology of residential yards

Network structure & complexity

​Trophic interactions in tropical agroforests

Urban Avian Ecology

Using diet information to improve habitat quality