Welcome to the Sears Lab webpage. The lab will be moving to the Department of Biology at Bryn Mawr College this summer. The goal of my lab is to understand how ecological systems work from a mechanistic standpoint. We use a balanced approach that confronts models with real world data. Topics of interest largely are focused on the physiological ecology, behavioral ecology, and population biology of reptiles and small mammals. We seek to explain landscape-level patterns of the distributions of animals by understanding the basic physiologies and behaviors of individuals. We use an integrative and quantitative approach to address ecological problems by combining elements not only from physiological and behavioral ecology, but also from new techniques available in Geographic Information Systems (GIS),remote sensing, statistics, and computer science. Current work is especially focussed on issues of climate change and urbanization in ecological systems
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