About Me

I am a graduate student undertaking my Phd at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry.  I have had a long-standing interest in plants and plant ecology of tropical rainforests ever since my first opportunity to visit a tropical rainforest in the south of Mexico. 

My research interests are broad but centre primarily on the natural history of shrubby and herbaceous plants (seedling ecology, growth habits, ethnobotany) with a focus of plant-plant and plant-animal interactions (primarily pollination biology).  I am fascinated by the host of interactions between organisms, such as mutualisms and symbioses, and how these interactions may have co-evolved.