I am a tropical forest community ecologist and conservation biologist, motivated by a desire to understand and effectively address environmental problems. My research investigates the impact of biodiversity loss on ecosystem services, with a focus on seed dispersal and pest control by birds. 


I finished my PhD in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington in 2011 and am currently a Huxley Fellow in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Rice University in Houston, TX. 

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