Jenny Dugan

Research

As a coastal marine ecologist with broad interests in community and population dynamics, I investigate basic questions concerning ecological connectivity among coastal ecosystems, marine conservation and restoration, responses to and recovery from disturbance, species interactions, and the physical and biological drivers of community structure and function across a diversity of shorelines, latitudes and time scales. Much of my research focuses on the biology and ecology of open coast sandy beach ecosystems including their biodiversity, food webs and functioning.