Scholar
Alyson East
Google Scholar ID: 2fB4-EgAAAAJ
University of Maine
Citations & Impact
Citations
134
H-index
4
i10-index
2
Publications
13
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Conducts research at the intersection of landscape ecology, biodiversity science, and remote sensing
- Uses spatial and trait-based data to study ecosystem persistence, shift, and recovery under disturbance
- Employs LiDAR, drone imagery, and satellite time series to extract and model structural legacies of disturbance in forests
- Integrates structural signals with ecological theory (e.g., size-abundance scaling, trait diversity frameworks) to understand ecosystem self-organization and stress responses
- Develops computer vision pipelines to extract morphological traits from invertebrate specimens and combines them with environmental and disturbance data to test community assembly hypotheses
Background
- Quantitative ecologist working at the intersection of remote sensing, biodiversity, and landscape ecology
- Integrates ecology, data science, and remote sensing to understand ecosystem responses to change across scales
- Focuses on interactions among forest structure, biodiversity, and disturbance history to explore ecological stability and resilience
- Interested in trait variation within and across species, structural legacies of land use and disturbance, and spatial patterns emerging from environmental gradients
- Strong advocate for open science, emphasizing transparent, scalable, and reproducible methods
