I am primarily interested in quantifying the extent of human-induced changes on marine communities and in evaluating the need for and success of different management initiatives. In my research I strive to place contemporary patterns in context with long-term changes. I also developed and run eShark.org, a project that facilitates and collects statistically useful data…
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I am a research scientist based jointly at the Dalhousie University, the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science group at Microsoft Research. I am interested in human impacts on biodiversity in the oceans, the distribution and biogeography of marine species, and the effects of sampling…
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Project Conservation strategies worldwide are designed around species distributions and biogeographic patterns, often under the assumption that these patterns are relatively stable. With climate change, however, distributions are now shifting as species seek more suitable conditions. There is an urgent need for credible predictions of future species distributions to guide conservation planning. Nowhere is this…
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