Benjamin Baiser

About

Benjamin Baiser is a faculty member associated with the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation department at the University of Florida, within the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. His research focuses on coastal and wetland ecology, with particular attention to the effects of coastal dynamics and human intervention on wildlife habitats. He specializes in the conservation and management of endangered and threatened species, studying their physiological and behavioral ecology within these environments. Baiser has collaborated internationally on sea turtle research in Trinidad and Barbados and has contributed to understanding the impacts of environmental changes on wildlife habitats. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Ecology and Physiology of marine turtles from the University of Florida, along with a master's degree in aquatic and terrestrial ecology from Slippery Rock University and a bachelor's degree in ecology from Manhattan College. He has held various research and teaching roles at UF and other institutions, and his work has resulted in numerous publications and grants supporting his research endeavors.

Research topics

• Ecology
• Biology
• Environmental science
• Geography
• Machine Learning
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Atmospheric sciences
• Zoology
• Geology

Selected publications

• Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2022 · 91 citations

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• Changes in taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Anthropocene

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2020 · 89 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  diversity, as well as taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity, highlights the need for a broader perspective on contemporary biodiversity changes. Conservation and environmental policy decisions thus need to consider biodiversity beyond local SR to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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• A global analysis of avian island diversity–area relationships in the Anthropocene

  Ecology Letters · 2023-03-29 · 43 citations

  reviewOpen access

  Research on island species-area relationships (ISAR) has expanded to incorporate functional (IFDAR) and phylogenetic (IPDAR) diversity. However, relative to the ISAR, we know little about IFDARs and IPDARs, and lack synthetic global analyses of variation in form of these three categories of island diversity-area relationship (IDAR). Here, we undertake the first comparative evaluation of IDARs at the global scale using 51 avian archipelagic data sets representing true and habitat islands. Using n…

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• The influence of task-value scaffolding in a predictive learning analytics dashboard on learners' statistics anxiety, motivation, and performance

  Computers & Education · 2021 · 41 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Cities Shape the Diversity and Spread of Nonnative Species

  Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2024-08-02 · 28 citations

  articleOpen access

  The globalization of trade and increased human mobility have facilitated the introduction and spread of nonnative species, posing significant threats to biodiversity and human well-being. As centers of global trade and human populations, cities are foci for the introduction, establishment, and spread of nonnative species. We present a global synthesis of urban characteristics that drive biological invasions within and across cities, focusing on four axes: ( a ) connectivity, ( b ) physical prope…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: EAGER-NEON: Using Intraspecific Trait Variation to Understand Processes Structuring Continental-scale Biodiversity Patterns

  NSF · $20k · 2016–2018

• Collaborative Proposal: MRA: Local- to continental-scale drivers of biodiversity across the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

  NSF · $327k · 2019–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Sydne Record

  University of Maine

  33 shared

• Aaron M. Ellison

  Harvard University

  30 shared

• Daijiang Li

  Louisiana State University

  25 shared

• Phoebe L. Zarnetske

  18 shared

• Spencer A. Wood

  16 shared

• Quentin D. Read

  Agricultural Research Service - Southeast Area

  14 shared

• John M. Grady

  Michigan State University

  14 shared

• Robert Guralnick

  Florida Museum of Natural History

  13 shared

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