Humans have altered nearly every corner of the planet.
Almost no place on Earth remains untouched by humans. How wildlife responds, and why some individuals and species prove resilient to human-driven changes while others do not, matters well beyond conservation.
Ecology, evolution, and human-driven change illuminate each other. Places changed by humans are natural experiments in rapid ecological shifts and adaptation, revealing how life responds to novel pressures, illuminating the effects we have on the world, and, at times, what that may mean for our own health.
From ecosystems to molecular mechanism
Every system is complex and has many interacting facets: Cara's research builds off of large ecosystem questions and zooms in to individual animal, cell and gene level questions to understand the mechanisms that make resilience possible.
