Forests, wetlands, and grasslands regulate our climate, provide and purify water, sustain food systems, affect human health, and underpin economies. We study how nature’s biodiversity, structure, and function determine the services it provides — and what is at stake when these change.
Much of the world’s ecosystems deliver only a fraction of what they once could. We map where restoration, protection, and transformed land management could recover nature’s capacity and identify the ecological mechanisms that determine how fast, and how fully, that recovery is possible.
Ecosystems are not static. They shift across landscapes and reorganize through seasons and decades. We study the phenology, function, structure, connectivity, and distributions that define this variation — the mechanistic backbone needed to understand both where nature stands today and where it is headed.