I am a global change ecologist interested in understanding how individuals respond to environmental change and how these responses scale up to influence populations and communities.

I have worked on a variety of study systems, but my work primarily focuses on birds and plants in a range of ecosystems including boreal, temperate and tropical forests and tallgrass prairies. I typically combine both behavioural and population ecology and use a variety of techniques to develop a mechanistic understanding of the responses of widlife to global change.

My work currently investigates:

• Winter ecology
• Food caching behaviour
• How behaviour shapes functional characteristics of the microbiome
• Interactive effects of land use and climate on prairie plant population dynamics
• Population dynamics of boreal breeding songbirds