Karen Hodges

Dr. Karen Hodges is a Professor and former Canada Research Chair in Conservation Biology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her major research areas include how habitat loss affects species and strategies for maintaining species in areas with degraded or fragmented habitats. This work includes impacts of forestry and wildfire on forest wildlife, and impacts of terrestrial applications of biosolids on grassland insects, birds, and mammals. She has also published papers on laws and policy for protecting endangered species.