Paul R. Moorcroft

My research investigates how demographic and competitive processes within terrestrial plant communities affect large-scale ecosystem dynamics. I've worked on the development of a new terrestrial biosphere model - the ecosystem demography model (ED). ED uses moment approximations to capture the large-scale behavior of a stochastic, ‘individual-based’ model of ecosystem dynamics. I am using the model to investigate how the dynamics of fine ‘sub-grid’ scale heterogeneity govern the large-scale structure and distribution of terrestrial ecosystems, biogeochemical cycling and biosphere-atmosphere interactions.

I'm also continuing my research on animal movement. I am currently finishing a book on this subject with Mark Lewis, entitled ‘Mechanistic home range models: from individual behavior to large-scale pattern’.


Paul R. Moorcroft
Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
HUH, 22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge MA 02138
email: pmoorcroft@oeb.harvard.edu
Phone (617) 496-6744
Fax (617) 495-9484