Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology
About
As part of my PhD research, I am trying to understand the impacts of hunting on ecosystem services. Unsustainable hunting has depleted animal populations in tropical forests worldwide, disrupting ecological interactions that maintain critical ecosystem services. These changes have profound impacts on multiple scales. Locally, communities suffer from the loss of food, fresh water, and other vital services; globally, climate is affected because depleted forests sequester less carbon. Mitigating these impacts requires an understanding of both critical ecological interactions and the social, economic, and cultural factors that drive over-exploitation of natural resources. My multidisciplinary research will incorporate ecological, socio-economic and human behavioral sciences to aid in developing novel solutions that meet the competing needs of humans and wildlife.
