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Helene Wagner is a Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto, holding a Dr. sc. nat. from ETH Zurich. She focuses on understanding how human landscape modifications affect biodiversity, specifically investigating how landscape heterogeneity shapes species diversity in local plant communities and modifies ecological processes such as dispersal and inter-specific interactions. Her research encompasses broad topics, including Spatial Ecology, where she assesses spatial patterns within populations and communities to infer underlying processes and assembly rules, as well as Metacommunity Dynamics, which relates scale-dependent components of species diversity to community landscape structure and landscape change. Additionally, her work in Landscape Genetics aims to provide a mechanistic link for testing the effects of landscape on gene flow. Wagner actively engages with prospective graduate students, currently accepting MSc and PhD candidates, and provides resources and updates through her lab website and EEB Quarterly.
Department of Sociology