Bried Lab
wetlands | odonates | insect conservation | applied plant ecology | community ecology
Ecological Health Assessment
We're interested in the ecological sensitivity of species and communities to environmental change and degradation. Mainly we've studied ecological conservatism, wetland floristic quality, and odonates as indicators of human pressures.
Insect Conservation
We're interested in prioritization, monitoring, and vulnerability of insects. We're currently assessing climate change vulnerabilities of Midwest aquatic insects, and surveying rare dragonflies and bumblebees along roadsides of Illinois.
Community Ecology
We dabble in coexistence theory, metacommunity thinking, and ecogeographic patterns. We recently explored dispersal mass effects and are now investigating community stochasticity and competitor networks in the artificial pondscape.
