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Research Interests Among diverse interests in our lab, questions of dispersal keep recurring, often requiring a regional perspective. Broader spatial perspective necessitates longer time scales than possible in short-term experiments, so we are combining biogeographical with experimental approaches. Broad spatial scales also require multiple study sites with relatively easy access. We often work on metapopulations & metacommunities in geographically isolated wetlands, once very numerous across the U.S. though many have been wiped out.Beyond obvious conservation questions, the remaining wetlands have attractive features for dispersal-oriented research: they comprise discrete habitat "islands", can date back 1000's of years, can be quite accessible, and are often rich in fauna & flora. Contrary to the typical approach, we select study organisms best suited to the research question at hand. This flexibility is challenging (we've been researching bacteria, seeds, microcrustaceans, insects, fish, and trees) but permits us to aim at the question first, and then target a study organism best suited to answering the question. Selected Publications
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