By

Karla Arboleda

How did I get here?

Coming from hyper-diverse Ecuador with many conservation threats, I became interested in how species cope with anthropogenic land-use change.

Dead Castles in the Sea

The compositional structure of these "dead castles" I work in are common throughout the Caribbean Sea, and although they have been heavily impacted by local and global anthropogenic impacts, I imagine they represent what the average person would envision a coral reef to look like: shallow, accessible by snorkel and colorful with a lot of light.

It’s All About Scale

Everything we observe depends on the scale of that observation, and this holds true when studying biodiversity.