Nayeli Carvajal, PhD
Mooney Lab
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
Mooney Lab
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
About me:
I am an ecologist studying the effects of climate change on insect-plant interactions. My research focuses on the role of hostplants' intra- and inter-specific variation in mediating climate change effects to herbivores. I use a multi-trophic approach to investigate how variation in hostplant quality (i.e. nutrients, direct & indirect defenses, etc) mediate herbivore response to climate change from a bottom-up (hostplant to herbivore) and top-down (predator to herbivore) perspectives. To do so, I employed a variety of tools spanning species distribution models, greenhouse and field experiments, chemical analysis, among other lab techniques.
I received my master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2010 where I studied butterfly host-plant's response to forest restoration treatments.
I received my master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2010 where I studied butterfly host-plant's response to forest restoration treatments.
