This methodology will be primarily hierarchical and Bayesian. A separate modeling component will focus on developing spatially explicit population dynamic models to predict biodiversity patterns. There will be opportunities for independent field work in South Africa that may form part of the dissertation research. This is the South African national flower and a common shrub throughout much of the fynbos biome of the Cape Floristic Kingdom. Lecospermum patersonii , one of the showy pincushion proteas, narrowly restricted in distribution to limstone soils in the southwestern part of the Cape Floristic Kingdom.
Sugar Maple stand in northwestern Connecticut.
Great Mountain Forest looking south from Canaan Mt.in northwestern Connecticut. This is the focal site for the tropical deforestation project currently funded by the MacArthur Foundation.