Personal Favorite Projects
- The series of projects on insect communities on small mangrove islands. This started with his doctoral dissertation
- The long series of paper on different statistical analyses of patterns and what they can tell us about underlying ecological mechanisms. Especially which species are where, and the different sizes of coexisting species. This includes the work with Tamar Dayan on character displacement and on assembly rules and species combinations with Ed Connor and Michael Collins. This research caused a major shift in how people analyze pattern data.
- A set of research projects in Patagonia on conifer invasions that was previously mentioned.
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