Landscape Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Global Change & Sustainable Ecosystem Management
My work focuses on understanding the ecology of
densely populated landscapes as they are transformed by population growth and
industrially-based technologies. I am particularly concerned by the global
and local environmental impacts of land use change and the very high nutrient
inputs that are now used to sustain food security in the villages of developing
countries. Recently, I have been conducting work across rural China as principal
investigator of the project
Long-Term Biogeochemical Changes in
China's Anthropogenic Landscapes. I have also been
investigating anthropogenic biomes,
the global ecological patterns produced by human/environment interactions.
My teaching includes
Environmental Science & Conservation (120), Landscape Ecology (305), Applied
Landscape Ecology (405/605), Biogeochemical Cycles in the Global Environment
(412/612) and Field Methods in Geography (485/685).
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Keywords: landscape ecology,
biogeochemistry, ecosystem management, resource management, sustainable
agriculture, traditional agriculture, agroecosystems, agroecology, village-scale
ecosystems, anthropogenic ecosystems, anthropogenic landscapes, human dominated
landscapes, ecological history, agricultural history, ecotope, human ecology,
China, observational uncertainty analysis, data quality, integration, ecological
synthesis.
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