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Bethany Bradley is a Professor of Biogeography and Spatial Ecology in the Department of Environmental Conservation at UMass. She is interested in how the geographical locations of species across landscapes and regions can inform ecological understanding of species distributions, invasion risk assessments, and conservation planning. Her research has a strong focus on terrestrial plant invasions, with a goal of understanding how invasion risk varies spatially in the context of anthropogenic disturbance and climate change.

She is interested in how terrestrial ecosystems respond to anthropogenically driven changes, particularly interactions between invasive species, land use and climate change. She aims to improve forecasting of future changes to ecosystems, particularly risks of non-native plant invasions, using tools from biogeography and landscape ecology. Her research has implications for invasion ecology, natural resource management and biological conservation.

Bradley is a co-founder of the Northeast Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (RISCC) Network and co-director of the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (NE CASC).

Invasive Species

invasion risk assessment

Global Change Ecology

Invasion Ecology

Biogeography

Species Distribution Modeling

Conservation Planning

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Spatial Ecology Lab

ortheast Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (NE RISCC) 

Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (NE CASC)

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Professor of Biogeography and Spatial Ecology

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