Our lab studies how spatial structure, landscape heterogeneity, and movement patterns alter population dynamics and community stability. We apply mathematical techniques and tools from complex systems science to understand broad-scale patterns in diversity and species interactions. We aim to tie community ecology to restoration and conservation using a variety of field observations, microcosm experiments, and modeling approaches. 

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Current News and Openings in the Lab:
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Lauren Shoemaker will be joining the Botany Department at the University of Wyoming as an assistant professor in 2019 and is recruiting! She is looking for a PhD student interested in using ecological theory to examine patterns in species' coexistence and diversity. She will also be recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in 2020. If you are interested in quantitative community ecology, species coexistence, synchrony, and stability of ecological communities, please read Joining the Lab and send an email. Undergraduates interested in gaining research experience should send her an email to inquire about current opportunities.