Faculty
Brian Maitner
Assistant Professor
Campus: St. Petersburg
Office: DAV 226
Lab: URL 106
Email
Education
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Teaching
- Community Ecology
- Statistical Ecology
Specialty Areas
Global Change Ecology, Macroecology, Community Ecology, Functional Ecology, R Coding, Data Wrangling
Publications
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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.