Tianna Peller
Assistant Professor
BSc, University of Calgary
MSc, University of Toronto
PhD, McGill University
Postdoc, University of Zurich and Eawag
- tianna.peller@uzh.ch
Prospective Students:
I am currently accepting MSc and PhD students. Interested applicants should send a CV, an unofficial transcript along with a cover letter summarizing their research interests, academic background, and skills. Please check my lab website for additional details.
Research
I am a community and ecosystem ecologist studying mechanisms driving biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across scales. I am broadly interested in interactions that occur between different ecosystems (e.g., lakes and forests) through the movement of living organisms and spatial flows of non-living materials (e.g., dead leaves, inorganic nutrients).
My research examines how such cross-ecosystem interactions influence species diversity, the structure of food-webs, and ecosystem functions (e.g., nutrient recycling) across time and space. To do this, I use a combination of mathematical models, large-scale data syntheses, and experiments that examine fundamental questions in ecology.