Community,
Functional, &
Macroecology
Announcement: Starting at FSU!
I have accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at Florida State University! I will start at FSU in August 2026. I will eventually update my bio and the research section of this website to reflect the new direction of my work. In the meantime, I am looking to grow my lab, so I encourage interested potential graduate students or postdocs to contact me!
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.
Peter Williams 