His research focuses on two major ecological themes; (1) the mechanisms driving broad-scale patterns of biodiversity, and (2) how animal populations respond to large-scale disturbances of either natural (egg., hurricanes, fire) or anthropogenic (e.g., logging, agriculture) origin. He has mentored students with both ATP semester and summer grants involving parasites of terrestrial invertebrates and toxicity of pesticides to non-target species. In addition, he has been able to involve students in his own research efforts in the El Yunque rain forest, Puerto Rico, through a collaboration with Dr. Michael Willig (University of Connecticut) and the Luquillo Mountains Long-Term Ecological Research Program (http://luq.lternet.edu/). Kevin Curry