Chelsea Little

Chelsea Little is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University, affiliated with the School of Environmental Science and Department of Biological Sciences. Her research integrates community ecology and meta-ecosystem ecology to understand ecosystem functioning and organismal interactions.

Dr. Little's work examines: (1) how communities assemble through interactions and traits, and (2) cross-ecosystem exchanges via dispersal and resource subsidies. She employs experiments, modeling, and data synthesis in watershed and tundra systems.

Her research group utilizes

• laboratory experiments
• fieldwork in river networks
• geostatistical modeling
• data synthesis

to explore biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships and landscape effects on ecological linkages.