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Past Sabbaticals
| Name | Affiliation | Research Project | Year | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priyanga Amarasekare | University of California Los Angeles | A framework for biodiversity maintenance: scaling up from modules to communities | 2018 | |
| Meghan Avolio | Investigating the repeatability of global change field experiments | 2023 | ||
| Stephanie Bohlman | University of Florida | Linking biodiversity and demography through remote sensing of trait tradeoffs | 2019 | |
| Cynthia Chang | University of Washington | Placing ecological succession in applied global change and restoration context | 2022 | Download (PDF) |
| Douglas Chesters | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Phylogenetic integration of insect community data | 2019 | Download (PDF) |
| Sandra Cuartas | Universidad de Antiquia, Medellin, Colombia | Meta-networks of species diversity and community pollination in the Andes of Colombia | 2023 | Download (PDF) |
| David Currie | University of Ottawa | A continental theory of biogeography: predicting geographic variation in species richness and range size | 2016 | Download (PDF) |
| Rodolfo Dirzo | Stanford University | Research on plant-herbivore interactions under climate change and collaborations on biodiversity science | 2017 | |
| Robert Dunn | North Carolina State University | The Global Biogeography of Microbes and Mutualists Associated with Humans | 2017 | |
| Lenore Fahrig | Carleton University | Dissecting SLOSS: Why are there more species in several small than few large patches? | 2020 | Download (PDF) |
| Benjamin Gilbert | University of Toronto | Project 1 – Neutrality, Demographic stochasticity and ecological drift Project 2 – Local interactions, Regional constraints, and multiple stable states | 2017 | Download (PDF) |
| Angélica González | Rutgers University | Understanding the interactive effects of temperature and nutrients on ecological processes: a meta-analysis | 2018 | Download (PDF) |
| Erik Hom | University of Mississippi | Of Sloths and Franken-Lichens: Elucidating the Biodiversity, Chemical Ecology, and Physiology of Algal Polycultures | 2021 | |
| Christopher Klausmeier | Michigan State University | Synthesizing Trait-Based Ecological Theory | 2019 | |
| Jeremy Lichstein | University of Florida | Plant functional diversity and forest ecosystem stability: insights from dynamic vegetation models | 2018 | |
| Elena Litchman | Michigan State University | Trait-based community patterns in microbes | 2019 | Download (PDF) |
| Laura Lopez-Hoffman | University of Arizona | Governing biodiversity across space: Discovering principles of sustainability and equity for telecoupled social-environmental systems | 2022 | |
| Fernando T. Maestre | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | Climate change impacts on dryland soil biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions from local to global scales | 2018, 2019, 2022 | Download (PDF) |
| Angela Peace | Texas Tech | Structured Population Dynamics Subject to Stoichiometric Constraints | 2022 | Download (PDF) |
| Roxibell Pelayo Escalona | Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela | Ecological networks along altitudinal gradients in the Páramos in Venezuela | 2023 | |
| George Perry | University of Auckland | Reconstructing movement and emergent ecological functions for extinct animals | 2019 | |
| Malin Pinski | Rutgers University | Community response to changing temperatures across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial realms | 2020 | Download (PDF) |
| Patti Vitt | Chicago Botanic Garden | Phylogenetic Endemism, Functional Trait Diversity and Conservation Status in the Orchidaceae: a Global Synthesis | 2018 | |
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