The majority of my work has been with plant and animal communities on temperate and tropical coasts, including salt marshes, rocky shores, mangroves, seagrasses, coral reefs, and maritime forests. My research primarily focuses on five questions:
1) What is the role of consumers and food web structure in controlling ecosystem structure and function?
2) How and why do top-down impacts vary across large spatial and temporal scales?
3) How do climate change, microbial, and human forces modify top-down control?
4) What is the role of facilitation in regulating biodiversity and ecosystem function?
5) What are the implications of these community-regulating interactions for conservation of coastal ecosystems and the critical services they provide?
