Landscape Conservation and Macroecology
Studying landscapes for better stewardship.
What we do.
The Belote Lab conducts research to understand nature across spatial scales. We focus on landscape conservation and landscape- and macro-ecology. Landscape conservation is the practice of protecting, connecting, and managing ecosystems to sustain large-scale processes upon which species and humans depend. Landscape- and macro-ecology integrate various perspectives and tools to study nature's patterns and processes at large spatial extents.
We study geographic patterns of biodiversity, model and map ecological connectivity, and work to understand how ecosystems respond to changes in land use, disturbance regimes, and climate. By integrating spatial data, models, field observations, and experiments, our goal is to support ecosystem sustainability and biodiversity conservation.
Who we are.
We're based in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. We're just getting started and hope you might be interested in joining the lab! Contact me if you are interested in learning about opportunities.
What we value.
Kindness. We treat all people the way we hope to be treated.
Curiosity. We marvel at nature and seek to understand patterns of life and the processes that shape those patterns.
Hard work. Being a scientist takes time, discipline, and tenacity. Contributing to the body of knowledge makes the investment worth it.
Having fun. We get outside to experience the landscapes we hope to understand and conserve, and we laugh at some of the absurd shared experiences of being a human.