Scott MacIvor

Teaching Interests

• BIOD54          Applied Conservation Biology

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in:

1) how to support biodiversity conservation through urban planning and design, and

2) how community ecology and biodiversity can be used as a template for urban greening to improve ecosystem service delivery.

Cities present exciting opportunities for basic and applied ecological research, which can contribute to solutions for urban environmental challenges we face today and tomorrow. The goal of my research is to link biodiversity to ecosystem services in ways that connects people to nature and supports critical wildlife habitat.

The specific objective of my research program is to understand how people influence the ecology and diversity of plants and pollinators, and the interactions between them. In our lab, we examine these relationships at different taxonomic and geographic scales and at the intersection of other exciting topics in urban ecology including invasive species management, urbanization gradients, heterogeneity and environmental filtering, pollination for urban crops, and the design of green infrastructure, including green roofs.