Jedediah Brodie

I study biodiversity writ large - the ecology & evolution of organisms and the resilience of ecosystems to global change. Much of my work and that of my students takes place where most of Earth's biodiversity resides - in tropical rainforests. Our work straddles basic ecology and applied conservation, for example assessing how climate change, habitat alteration, and exploitation (e.g., "bushmeat" hunting) affect species, species interactions, and natural communities. We study landscape connectivity and conservation areas and use the lens of 'ecological resilience' to deploy them in large-scale strategic conservation planning that has the potential to ameliorate the impacts of climate change while providing win-win outcomes for biodiversity and human livelihood.

I am an elected councilor for the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), and part of the association's Conservation and DEI committees. I serve on the IUCN species survival commission, world commission on protected areas, and multiple taxonomic and thematic specialist groups. I was a David H. Smith Conservation Fellow and a Fulbright Research Fellow to Malaysia.