New paper out in Ecology Letters!

https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14151

Predator feeding rates have to saturate at high enough prey densities. But, how saturated are feeding rates likely to be in nature? We find that they are much more likely to be on the unsaturated side. This implies that predators generally have feeding rates much lower than their maximum potential feeding rates and that feeding rates should respond dynamically to changes in prey densities.

Dear search committees,

If you do a zoom interview and a candidate doesn't make it to the campus interview stage, please send an email letting them know. It's awkward after having a half hour to hour conversation to then get ghosted and find out others got on campus interviews from a job board...

New #preprint out at bioRxiv

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.21.517427v1

We develop the hypothesis that trait combinations that are likely to lead to extinction represent ecological boundaries that species must avoid during their evolution if they are to remain extant. These boundaries then define what we term 'viable eco-evolutionary pathways'. We illustrate how this can operate using a model of predator evolution and computational eco-evolutionary simulations.

#introduction

Hi all!

I'm a quantitative evolutionary ecologist. I bring together theory and data to understand what drives the strengths of species interactions and their consequences for populations and communities.

I'm currently a postdoc at the University of Nebraska, but I'm also on the job market for faculty positions.

I'll be posting about here about my research, being on the job market, and occasionally cat pics and weird ideas.