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    • Species range shifts often speed ahead of their modeled climatic niches
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    • Predicting the spread of invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida
    • Expanding the scope of connectivity modeling with Markov chains: perspectives and applications in R
    • Informing Species Range-shifts with (preliminary) Global Connectivity
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    • Modeling spread of invasive Burmese pythons, integrating thermoregulation, behavior, and mortality
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Expanding the scope of connectivity modeling with Markov chains: perspectives and applications in R

Dec 19, 2023
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Principal Investigator & Assistant Professor of Applied Ecology
← Predicting the spread of invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida Nov 17, 2025
Informing Species Range-shifts with (preliminary) Global Connectivity May 17, 2023 →

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