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Chelsea Little is a trained community ecologist whose research addresses topics in spatial ecosystem ecology. Her work focuses on understanding the drivers of ecosystem functioning and community assembly, particularly the relationships between organisms in similar trophic groups and how their traits contribute to ecosystem function. Chelsea considers ecosystems as intrinsically linked through the exchange of organisms and materials, such as resource subsidies, and uses meta-ecosystem and landscape ecology approaches to study these connections and their effects on recipient ecosystems. Her research often takes place in watersheds and examines community assembly and dispersal in river networks, as well as the impacts of landscape composition and structure on terrestrial-aquatic linkages. Chelsea's methodologies include a variety of laboratory and field experiments, observational data collection, geostatistical modeling, simulations, and data synthesis.
Department of Philosophy