Geography of Demography: modeling plant population responses to global habitat patterns

• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, 2015-2017

• Host institution: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• Mentor: Prof. Yvonne Buckley

The objective of the project was to examine geographic configuration of habitat patches suitable for hundreds of European plant species at continental scale. The overarching goal of the project was to improve our understanding of how these geographic patterns vary with species’ biological properties and geophysical constraints and how these may affect the local persistence or expansion of plant populations. The project emerged important generalizations across multiple species and plant life strategies over large geographic extents.

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Isolation syndromes in plant and animal populations

Bolyai János Research Fellowship, 2019-2022

The objective of the project was to build global and regional models of phenotypic trait and genetic diversity from data collected on marine islands and habitat islands on the mainland. The overarching goal of the project was to incorporate geographic isolation in predictive models of biodiversity patterns.