As an ecologist I am broadly interested in the causes and consequences of biotic interactions, with an emphasis on foraging ecology and food web structure. My research aims to understand how disturbances like climate and land-use change mediate foraging dynamics and energy flow, and how these processes scale up to influence populations, communities, and ecosystems. To tackle these questions I integrate stable isotope and genetic analyses with spatial and demographic models, and I assess interactions across species and scales.
As a Research Wildlife Biologist with the US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station I am the lead scientist for Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest and Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, and I am part of the Ecological Process and Function Program. My current work extends from NM to AK and focuses on three primary questions:
1) How does global change impact resource selection and the nutritional ecology of mammals?
2) What are the drivers of diet variation and how do they influence animal physiology, fitness, and population dynamics?
3) How does global change alter food webs, nutrient cycling, and the functional roles of animals in ecosystems?
I conducted my MSc and PhD research in the Pauli lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where my work focused on carnivore population and community dynamics in novel ecosystems. The impacts of global change are pervasive, and my research explored the processes regulating carnivore functional roles, competitive interactions, and species distributions in human-dominated landscapes. I then joined the Newsome Lab and the University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology as an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology (NSF PRFB-Collections). As a postdoc my work combined biological collections with field sampling, captive feeding experiments, and compound-specific stable isotope analyses to assess foraging plasticity, energy flow, and trophic complexity across terrestrial ecosystems.
Please see my research and publications pages for details on past and present research.
As a Research Wildlife Biologist with the US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station I am the lead scientist for Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest and Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, and I am part of the Ecological Process and Function Program. My current work extends from NM to AK and focuses on three primary questions:
1) How does global change impact resource selection and the nutritional ecology of mammals?
2) What are the drivers of diet variation and how do they influence animal physiology, fitness, and population dynamics?
3) How does global change alter food webs, nutrient cycling, and the functional roles of animals in ecosystems?
I conducted my MSc and PhD research in the Pauli lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where my work focused on carnivore population and community dynamics in novel ecosystems. The impacts of global change are pervasive, and my research explored the processes regulating carnivore functional roles, competitive interactions, and species distributions in human-dominated landscapes. I then joined the Newsome Lab and the University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology as an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology (NSF PRFB-Collections). As a postdoc my work combined biological collections with field sampling, captive feeding experiments, and compound-specific stable isotope analyses to assess foraging plasticity, energy flow, and trophic complexity across terrestrial ecosystems.
Please see my research and publications pages for details on past and present research.
"What escapes the eye, however, is a much more insidious kind of extinction: the extinction of ecological interactions"
- Dr. Daniel H. Janzen
- Dr. Daniel H. Janzen
