Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley in the Stephens lab. In collaboration with the North lab at UC Davis and the US Forest service, my current research focuses on the consequences of shifting wildfire patterns for biodiversity, and the impacts of extreme drought on ecosystem resilience. My PhD research focused on how wildfire and forest management alter landscape pattern, and influence habitat use of birds and bats in the forests of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains.

• zlsteel[at]berkeley.edu