Will Tyburczy

Ecology of Scale

“[T]he study of ecology requires analytical methods and experiments which often cannot be controlled in the precise way physical experiments usually are. Consider what it would be like to conduct a physics or chemistry experiment if the scientist were only a few angstroms in size and lived for only a few nanoseconds. Could such a scientist control or decipher the macroscopic course of chemical reactions from the random collisions of molecules or the relationships between subatomic particles?”[1]

I’m in my fifth year of my PhD program in Ecology and Evolution, studying the importance of temporal scale to the dynamics of interactions between species, and specifically the interplay of predation and episodic reproduction in predator-prey systems.  Please use the links at the top of the page to navigate the site.  Thanks for stopping by!