Ian Ausprey

Professional Summary

Dr. Ausprey’s research group works at the intersection of community ecology, landscape ecology, population biology, functional ecology, and conservation biology and investigates critical topics such as how agricultural and elevational gradients shape tropical bird communities, how urbanization, fragmentation, and wildfire impact avian populations, and how management strategies can promote avian biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. He regularly integrates functional traits and phylogenies to identify mechanistic explanations underlying the sensitivities of species to anthropogenic disturbance and the evolution of biotic communities across space and time.