Amanda D. Rodewald

Natural Resources and the Environment; Senior Director of Conservation Science
Garvin Professorship of Ornithology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/Lab of Ornithology

Contact Information

159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Ithaca, NY 14850
p: (607) 254-2176

Amanda D. Rodewald

Natural Resources and the Environment; Senior Director of Conservation Science
Garvin Professorship of Ornithology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/Lab of Ornithology

Expertise

Conservation biology; population, community, and landscape ecology; ecological restoration; conservation planning and prioritization; sustainability science; conservation finance

Current Research Interest

Population and community responses to changes in land use, climate, invasive species, and disturbance regimes; socioecological dynamics and conservation in working landscapes; eco-evolutionary dynamics in human-dominated and urbanizing systems; sustainable management of temperate and tropical forests; conservation planning and prioritization, innovative finance and market-based instruments to support conservation and communities

Distinction

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
American Ornithological Society Fellow
The Op-Ed Project Public Voices Fellow
Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program Fellow

Selected Publications

Schuster, Richard, Scott Wilson, Amanda D. Rodewald, Peter Arcese, Daniel Fink, Tom Auer, and Joseph R. Bennett. “Optimizing the Conservation of Migratory Species over their Full Annual Cycle.” Nature Communications 10 (2019): 1754. 

Rodewald, Amanda D., Rudolf P. Rohr, Miguel A. Fortuna, and Jordi Bascompte. “Community-Level Demographic Consequences of Anthropogenic Disturbance:  An Ecological Network Approach.” Journal of Animal Ecology 83, no. 6 (2014): 1409-1417.

Cornell Research Website Article

Birds, Coffee, and Natural Ecosystems