Her research group is interested in predicting the effects of environmental stressors such as climate change, invasive species, land use change, and habitat alteration, on ecosystems and improving the use of quantitative approaches used to generate these predictions. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto and post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Montreal and the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Stressors addressed: Land-use practices (agriculture intensity, forest cover), climate change (ice cover, warming).