I
am a postdoctoral scholar
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.
James D. Forester
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge MA 02138