Tamara Ticktin

Bio

Tamara Ticktin is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences. Her interests are interdisciplinary and lie at the interface of people, plants and conservation. Her lab’s research centers on local and indigenous stewardship of forests, including ecology of wild-harvested resources, agroforestry systems, and biocultural conservation and restoration; natural and anthropogenic drivers of plant population dynamics; epiphyte demography and conservation; and resilience of social-ecological systems, especially land-sea and ecological-nutritional linkages. Her lab focuses on participatory/co-produced research approaches, and employs a combination of ecological field experiments, monitoring and modeling; and ethnographic approaches with local resource stewards.