Coastal Community Ecology

Our lab seeks to understand how communities are structured and how humans are altering these communities during this time of global change and biodiversity loss. We ask fundamental questions in community ecology that can then inform conservation and management.

We address our research questions across multiple levels of biological organization (e.g., microbes, algae, corals, fishes, sharks), in coastal ecosystems (e.g., rocky intertidal, coral reefs), and integrate field observations, experiments and data synthesis to ask broad questions in community ecology. We are based out of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in the School of Life Sciences.