Title: Professor
Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Address: 160 Holdsworth Way, Dept Env Conservation, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
Email: pswarren@umass.edu
Phone: (413) 512-9794
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Research Interests: urban ecosystems, avian ecology, conservation biology
Biographical Sketch:
Paige Warren has been pursuing urban ecology research for the past 20 years, working in cities around the United States. Urbanization poses one of the greatest challenges facing society, with many cities growing in area faster than in population, others with aging infrastructure, and the prospect of all population growth this century concentrated in cities. A sustainable future depends on striking a balance among increased urban intensification, biological conservation, and continued access to nature for people. Research in Dr. Warren's lab seeks to understand processes generating and maintaining biological diversity in a world that is becoming increasingly dominated by humans. She focuses on the impacts of urbanization on animals, from the population to the community level, as well as the relationships between humans and urban nature. She led an NSF-funded Urban Long Term Research Area - Exploratory (ULTRA-Ex) project in Boston, plays a leading role in Long-Term Ecological Research projects in Phoenix and co-led an international working group focused on biodiversity in cities.
Education:
Ph.D. in Zoology from University of Texas (Austin, Texas), granted 2000
B.A. in Biology from University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC), granted 1992