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Wendy J. Palen is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Her research is focused on ecology and aquatic communities, particularly in the context of alpine amphibian populations in the Pacific Northwest, as well as river and lake food webs that support salmon populations in California and Alaska. Dr. Palen's research programs involve field-based experimental manipulations to tease apart the mechanistic underpinnings of ecological patterns, species physiology, and food web interactions. She emphasizes the importance of understanding dynamics across individuals, populations, and communities within broad spatial and temporal scales relevant to conservation and management of aquatic systems. Her approach combines various methodologies tailored to specific research questions, including lab-based physiological assays, behavioral observations, manipulative field experiments, landscape-scale surveys, and paleoecological reconstructions, along with quantitative techniques.
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