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Professor Liza Comita specializes in Tropical Forest Ecology and is currently a faculty member at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She earned her BA in Biology and MA in Conservation Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and obtained her PhD in Plant Biology from the University of Georgia in 2006. Comita joined Yale in July 2014 after serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at Ohio State University from 2011 to 2014. Her academic trajectory also includes postdoctoral positions at the University of Minnesota (2006-2007), Earth Institute at Columbia University (2007-2009), and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (2009-2011). Comita's research emphasizes the ecological mechanisms that drive patterns of diversity, dynamics, and species distributions in both pristine and human-altered tropical forests. Through a combination of extensive field studies and advanced statistical methods, her work aims to uncover novel insights into the processes that influence tropical forest regeneration and the structuring of diverse ecological communities.
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies • New Haven, CT
Teaching and conducting research in Tropical Forest Ecology.
Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University • Columbus, OH
Focused on ecology and evolution with an emphasis on forest ecosystems.
Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.