Peter Vesk
Peter is a quantitative ecologist who integrates fundamental and applied research, working mainly with plants. A clear challenge in plant ecology is how to generalise understanding, how to move beyond treating every study and every species as a special case.
Research in Peter’s group has mainly fallen in two fields: the analysis of plant functional traits and types and their generality; and predicting, planning and measuring the outcomes of vegetation conservation, management and landscape restoration.
Most of Peter’s work includes developing and applying conceptual and quantitative ecological models appropriate to the problem at hand.