Research
Fields of interest
In my research, I try to break down complex patterns into understandable chunks, which could be generalised to understand the complexity. My research focuses very much on the interaction of humans and nature, mostly on how humans drive biodiversity change by introducing new species, so-called neobiota. I strive to understand the introduction and establishment of neobiota over large spatial scales and how this has changed in the past and will change in the future. The spread and establishment of neobiota are tightly coupled to human activity, and as a consequence it is necessary to first understand changes in human activity related to neobiota such as trade and transport over large spatial and temporal scales. Much of research therefore deals with the analysis of human activity to predict the spread and establishment of neobiota.
A selection of topics:
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Marine bioinvasion caused by global shipping (click for more information)
Modeling the global spread of vascular alien plants
Biogeography in the Anthropocene (article)
Impact of climate change on plankton phenology (article)
Effects of seasonality and stage-structured interactions on population dynamics (article)
Metacommunity dynamics of single lake plankton (article)
Analysis of complex networks (article)
Time series analysis of planktonic communities
Programming
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R, C, GIS, SAS, Matlab, html, LaTex