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Yeager, Lauren

Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute

lyeager@utexas.edu

 

Dr. Lauren Yeager is an ecologist whose primary research interests lie in understanding how humans are impacting coastal and marine ecosystems, and subsequently how changes in these systems may affect the ecosystem services they provide—specifically, human alterations to coastal landscapes and changes in biodiversity associated with overharvest may drastically alter the structure and function of marine communities. Before joining SESYNC, Lauren was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were she studied how fragmentation and habitat loss of seagrass habitat could lead to declines in fish biodiversity. Similarly, her dissertation research at Florida International University focused on how landscape changes could affect the functioning of coral reef and estuarine ecosystems in The Bahamas and Florida.

CV: 

Lauren_Yeager_CV_Oct_2014.pdf

Associated Projects: 

Reef Ecosystem Services

Resources
The effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on plant functional traits and functional diversity: what do we know so far?	Sep 13, 2019 Article published in Oecologia
Scale dependence of environmental controls on the functional diversity of coral reef fish communities	Sep 18, 2017 Article published in Global Ecology and Biogeography.
A simulation tool to scrutinise the behaviour of functional diversity metrics	Jul 24, 2017 Article published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Marine Socio-Environmental Covariates: queryable global layers of environmental and anthropogenic variables for marine ecosystem studies	Apr 24, 2017 Article published in Ecology.
Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities	Sep 21, 2016 Article published in Global Change Biology.
Threshold effects of habitat fragmentation on fish diversity at landscapes scales	Aug 01, 2016 Article published in Ecology.
A terrestrial-aquatic food web subsidy is potentially mediated by multiple predator effects on an arboreal crab	Dec 06, 2015 Article published in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
Comparison of fish assemblages in restored and natural mangrove habitats along an urban shoreline	Mar 04, 2015 Article published in Bulletin of Marine Science.
Measuring individuality in habitat use across complex landscapes: approaches, constraints, and implications for assessing resource specialization	Feb 12, 2015 Article published in Oecologia.

Links: 

Yeager Lab

Google Scholar Profile

Personal Website

Research Interest: 

I study the processes controlling the structure of coastal, marine communities. I use macroecology and landscape ecology tools to predict how humans may impact these systems via alterations in habitat pattern or species removal by overharvest.