Benjamin Carter

I am macroecologist and paleoecologist interested in understanding broad-scale spatial patterns and temporal changes in mammalian communities. I graduated from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where for my PhD, I investigated the impacts of the megafaunal extinctions of the Late Pleistocene on local mammal communities from across the globe, focusing primarily on changes in rates of community energy use. For my post-doc, I am quantifying how local richness and rates of energy use of mammalian assemblages from western North America changed over a major period of global warming in the middle Miocene, and assessing how these differed between regions of contrasting topographic complexity. For a list of publications, see my Google Scholar page.

Mentor: Catherine Badgley