James D. Forester
I
am a Postdoctoral Fellow
working with
Paul Moorcroft at
Harvard University. The overall goal of my research is to develop an
understanding of the spatio-temporal processes that affect the
distribution and
abundance of organisms. I am interested in how animals alter their
habitat
selection and movement paths in response to heterogeneity in resources
and
risk. Because individual animals often respond to their environment in
unique
ways, I am exploring how this individual variation in landscape use can
affect
population and community dynamics. My research covers a range of
spatial and temporal scales; I am studying the movement patterns of
large,
mammalian
herbivores and the community dynamics of intertidal
communities.