Brian Tucker
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Research Interests
I am interested in how patterns form in ecological systems and what role these patterns play in the development and dynamics of communities.
My research focuses on investigating and developing new methods of spatial structure characterization, with an emphasis on linear features.
Linear spatial structure can be found in a wide variety of ecological systems (e.g. vegetation types in riparian zones, the stoloniferous habit of some plant species, fungal hyphae). The detection of spatial pattern is one possible step in characterizing the underlying process that may be responsible for observed spatial structure, but rigorous methods of dealing with linear data are awaiting development in ecology.
This research will develop a suite of tools to aid in the analysis of ecological data containing linear spatial structure.
Contact information
Brian Tucker, PhD Student
Phone: (780) 492-1577
Email: btucker@ualberta.ca
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Last Modified:2006-11-17 |