My research investigates how demographic and competitive processes within terrestrial plant communities affect large-scale ecosystem dynamics. I've worked on the development of a new terrestrial biosphere model - the Ecosystem Demography model (ED). ED uses moment approximations to capture the large-scale behavior of a stochastic, ‘individual-based’ model of ecosystem dynamics. My group is using the ED model to investigate how the dynamics of fine ‘sub-grid’ scale ecosystem heterogeneity govern the large-scale structure and distribution of terrestrial ecosystems, biogeochemical cycling and biosphere-atmosphere interactions. For more details see Research Projects.

I am also continuing my research on animal movement, and have recently finished a book on this subject with Mark Lewis, entitled Mechanistic Home Range Models: From Individual Behavior to Large-scale Pattern.

Paul R. Moorcroft
Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
HUH, 22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge MA 02138
Phone: (617) 496-6744
Fax: (617) 495-9484
Email: paul_moorcroft@harvard.edu

Curriculum Vitae