Title
Professor of Ecology and Conservation Biology

Department
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management


Faculty URL
http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people_profiles/steven-r-beissinger/

Research Group
https://nature.berkeley.edu/beislab/BeissingerLab/

Email
beis@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 643-3038


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Research Expertise and Interest
conservation biology, climate change, endangered species, environmental science, wildlife, behavioral and population ecology, ornithology

Research Description
?A major area of research in my lab concentrates on quantifying and ameliorating the impacts of climate change on biodiversity.??I lead the Grinnell Resurvey Grinnell Resurvey Project to document the effects of contemporary climate and land use change on the birds and mammals of California. Another research thrust during this period has been a set of contributions to the development and application of analytical methods in ecology and conservation biology.?My long-term studies of parrotlets in Venezuela are in their 31st?year, making this the longest continuously studied bird in the tropics, and?have attracted widespread attention for the discovery of how baby parrots learn their names as well as informing the population biology of this poorly known, threatened and heavily traded group of birds.? A final area of current research is with threatened and endangered species. We currently study? the metapopulation dynamics two?secretive water birds - black and Virginia rails - that inhabit small wetlands in the foothills of the Sierras, trying to understand how human modifications of their habitats and climate change will shape their future.