Jeremy is a community ecologist interested in how global change affects plant communities through time and space. He’s passionate about the many ways plants have adapted to climate and how it predicts currents and future response of plants to climate change. His research sits at the intersection between spatial, functional and numerical ecology and makes use of diverse long-term databases. He often reflect on epistemology and how open standards can benefit the scientific community. He happily share scientific findings to wider audiences when given the occasion.

Research Project: Declining or thriving? Arctic plants resilience can be explained by their climatic affinity

During his Postdoc project, Jeremy is investigating tundra plant communities change with the use of the ITEX databases. He is focusing on how traits and climatic niches of species shed light on species abundance decline in the midst of the overall growth that Arctic plants are experiencing. He is also interested in studying non-linerar changes in vegetation cover to detect a tipping point in tundra productivity, that could indicates either an exponential or saturated growth.