Faculty
Brian Maitner
Assistant Professor
Contact
St. Petersburg campus
Office: DAV 226
Lab: URL 106
Email: bmaitner@usf.edu
| Specialty Area | Recent Publications |
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Global Change Ecology, Macroecology, Community Ecology, Functional Ecology, R Coding,
Data Wrangling
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Arizona
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Community Ecology
Statistical Ecology
RESEARCH
My research interests are broadly centered on biodiversity, including how it emerges
and is maintained, as well as how best to conserve it. This work involves the development
of bigger and better datasets and new computational tools to tackle both long-standing
ecological questions as well as pressing conservation issues. I use a variety of approaches
across spatial and taxonomic scales ranging from small (e.g., a few species in a .25
x .25 m plot) to very large (whole phyla across the globe). Most of my recent work
focuses on plants (which account for most of life on Earth, by mass), but I'll work
with any taxa where the data are available and the questions are interesting.