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Nature in its pristine state tends to be rich with biodiversity. This biodiversity exists across scales from genes to ecosystems, forming complex and beautiful interrelationships between the different scales. At McCann Lab we research the non-random “structure” (biostructure; see definitions below) of nature that lies behind biodiversity and yields the critical ecosystem services and stability.
Our work is tied heavily to the applied goals of the
Center for Ecosystem Management.
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Biodiversity
Refers to the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems. Biodiversity encompasses the evolutionary, ecological, and cultural processes that sustain life.
BioStructure
Refers to the underlying non-random structure that exists in genes to food webs to ecosystems to whole biomes. As an example, food webs are arguably structured by toplogy and how strongly they interact. Similarly, all scales of organization have inherent structure.
Biotracers
A measurable substance or parameter in an organism whose presence is indicative of some measure of a key biological process (e.g., feeding in food webs, movement etc.).
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