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Sarah HinnersSarah Hinners

sarah.hinners@colorado.edu

I am interested in the effects of anthropogenic land use change on ecological communities and ecosystem function. In particular, I want to know how our alteration/creation of landscape pattern affects the flow of organisms and materials across the landscape.

One of the most dramatic ways in which humans affect the landscape is through the spread of urban and suburban "sprawl". Working in the Denver area, my dissertation research deals with pollinator communities and pollination function in prairie fragments embedded in suburban residential land use.