Over the spring semester, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown faculty for their research, teaching, service and leadership.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Dov Sax
Professor of Environment and Society & Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Research Interests
Conservation biology, Species responses to climate change, Species invasions
Recent News
Siddapureddy, a senior concentrating in ecology, explores the impact of invasive trees to understand climate change.
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News from IBES
Brown Climate Study Named Finalist for PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
Professor Dov Sax and fellow researchers received recognition for their IBES-supported study challenging traditional forecasting methods for the impacts of climate change on species.
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Founded in 2014, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society has become a leader in producing boundary-breaking, solutions-driven research while educating the next generation of environmental leaders.
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Nature Communications
Experimental evidence of climate change extinction risk in Neotropical montane epiphytes
Emily Hollenbeck PhD '18 and IBES Professor Dov Sax conducted field surveys of epiphyte distributions on three mountains in Central America and performed reciprocal transplant experiments on one mountain across sites that varied in elevation, temperature, and aridity.
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A study based on labor-intensive fieldwork and analysis by Brown biologists in tropical mountain regions shows that a warmer and drier climate will lead to massive losses of plant species.
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