Arjun B. Potter - Ecologist
I am a community ecologist with broad interests in species interactions, allometry, plant and animal traits, savanna ecology, and animal nutrition. Intellectually, I am particularly interested in how organismal-level tradeoffs generate emergent ecological patterns.
I am a postdoc at Wake Forest University, in the lab of T. Michael Anderson, where I am studying the ecology and evolution of Acacia trees in Africa. This research is conducted together with collaborators at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, in Arusha, Tanzania. I conduct fieldwork in Serengeti National Park.
I received my PhD in 2022 in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. My research focused on causes and consequences of diet selection by large mammalian herbivores in Gorongosa National Park.