DoctorKate Wootton

Currently, I am working with multiple communities across Aotearoa New Zealand to understand cultural-ecological networks within the context of biocultural regeneration. I'm based in the Tylianakis Lab at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. It's nice to be home! Previously, I worked on defining the functional roles of ecologists within the academic ecosystem with Aaron Clauset and Daniel Larremore at the University of Colorado, Boulder. My PhD focused on using species' traits (such as body size or foraging mode) to understand and predict the structure and dynamics of ecological networks, with Tomas Roslin, Riccardo Bommarco, Tomas Jonsson, and Alva Curtsdotter at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.