Catherine Helen Graham

My research is in two main areas: empirical work focused on landscape and behavioral ecology, with an emphasis on how human-altered landscapes affect ecological processes; and bioinformatics/geographic information systems modeling to examine how current and historical environmental factors affect patterns of species distribution. At a landscape scale I examine how landscape- and local-level factors influence patterns of habitat use by animals. Particularly, I am interested in bridging the gap between landscape and behavioral ecologists, who generally work at completely different scales. This disparity has resulted in a lack of empirical landscape-oriented behavioral information with which to develop a broad perspective on fragmentation effects. At a regional scale I am integrating museum data, environmental GIS layers, distributional niche models and phylogenetic information to better understand processes that may have led to current species distribution patterns. I am focused on tropical systems and currently collaborating with researchers from Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Australia and Brazil.

doctorate at Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics from University of Missouri (2000). Has experience in Ecology, focusing on Ecology