Our research focuses on biodiversity, conservation, and ecosystem function, especially as will be impacted by anthropogenic change. Our lab, while currently concentrating on bats, has worked on the conservation and ecosystem roles of numerous fauna in the US and Neotropics, including primates, dung beetles, butterflies, songbirds, feral horses, and horseshoe crabs. My interests encompass seed-dispersal communities in the tropics, the role of predators, the value of secondary forests, and reforestation using natural dispersal agents. We are currently working on projects ranging from seed dispersal by wildlife, habitat use by bats, and the effect of fragmentation and sea-level rise, predation on insects, biodiversity studies in Honduras, and the mitigation of bat mortality by wind turbines.

Some specific current projects include:

Habitat change and fragmentation effects on bat activity in Neotropical rainforests
Bat conservation and biodiversity in tropical landscapes
Mitigation of bat mortality from wind turbines
Sea-level rise in coastal habitats and the effect on wildlife
Golf courses as conservation foci for bats
The impact of bats on insect populations