Simon Asher Levin

My major current interests relate to the problem of scale, and the manifestation and interpretation of pattern across different scales. Research projects involve collaborative and integrated theoretical and empirical studies of the dynamics of the grasslands, forests, and the intertidal, as well as work on marine and terrestrial animal groupings. The focus of much of this work is on relating broad scale patterns and remotely sensed images to the finer scale processes that help determine them, and understanding effects of global change on biological diversity. Other current research is concerned principally with the dynamics of natural populations, the relation to community and ecosystem organization, the problem of scale, and associated evolutionary questions.