Elske Tielens - Community Ecologist
My research focuses on processes of community assembly, species interactions and the effect of landscape structure on species composition and diversity. I am interested in dispersal, connection between communities and how processes change across spatial and temporal scale. My dissertation work examines ohi'a canopy arthropods on the Hawaii Islands.
I received my PhD at the University of Maryland in Dr. Daniel Gruner's lab in the Entomology Department, as part of the Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (BEES) graduate program.