Research
Vegetation response to climate changes. Human landscape use. Urban wildlife.
My research program addresses human-environment interactions at various spatial and temporal scales in arid and Mediterranean environments. This effort is currently centered on examining regional relationships between climate, vegetation, and societies from the Bronze Age to the present in the Levant, Cyprus, Sardinia, and Sicily. In Southern California, my interest in human-environment interactions focuses on human-wildlife interactions at the urban-wildland interface.