Our lab aims to understand and predict how ecological communities respond to change - especially climate change and invasive species. We work across scales from microcosm experiments to continental and global-scale spatial analyses. We work with different types of species, communities, and ecosystems. Our spatial analyses tend to focus on birds, small mammals, fish, macroinvertebrates, and trees. Our field and experimental work with climate change and invasions tends to focus on grassland systems and ponds.

We conduct field and experimental research at Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), the KBS Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site (where Phoebe is Co-PI), and computational research with the MSU Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC). Phoebe is also Director & PI of the MSU Institute for Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, and Macrosystems (IBEEM).

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