Peter Williams

I am a quantitative ecologist broadly interested in community ecology, macroecology, functional ecology, biogeography, species interactions, and tropical ecology. I am a postdoc at Michigan State University working with Elise Zipkin, and I also work with Natalia Umaña at University of Michigan. At MSU, I am working on a variety of different projects including an evaluation of how drought affects tropical tree communities and an analysis examining global diversity patterns of bird and mammal communities. I completed my PhD at University of Montana where I studied tropical plant-animal interactions in Southeast Asia under Jedediah Brodie. Before that, I worked in China on a Fulbright Fellowship studying golden snub-nosed monkeys.