During the spring semester, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown University faculty for their leadership, service, research and scholarship.
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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
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IBES-affiliated students named 2026 Royce Fellows
Through the Swearer Center program, eight students affiliated with IBES will conduct community-engaged research spanning environmental justice, food sovereignty, conservation biology, and Indigenous land stewardship.
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Ecology Society of America
Ecological Society of America announces 2026 award recipients
A study by Daniel Perret PhD '21, IBES Professor Dov Sax, and Margaret Evans of the University of Arizona won the ESA's George Mercer Award for an Outstanding Paper by An Early-Career Researcher.
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Nature Climate Change
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology
IBES Professor Dov Sax coauthored this article, which highlights why ecology's space-for-time substitution method can be misleading, and makes suggestions for improving the reliability of ecological forecasts.
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Over the spring semester, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown faculty for their research, teaching, service and leadership.
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Siddapureddy, a senior concentrating in ecology, explores the impact of invasive trees to understand climate change.
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