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ABOUT ME

My research focuses on the application of geospatial methods to understand fundamental ecological and environmental processes that regulate biodiversity, species distribution, and abundances. I have a strong academic background in both forest ecology and quantitative methods in geography, with continuing interest in developing innovative methodological research using computational geospatial analysis in open source platforms (Python and R). Grounded in the theoretical framework of biogeography, my work primarily deals with the development of spatially explicit models for enriching our understanding of forest community patterns and responses to changing environments (natural and anthropogenic) in the multi-scale contexts (spatial and temporal) of landscapes.

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Research gate:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Youngsang_Kwon 

EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Biogeography

Forest carbon cycle, Species Migration, NPP, GPP

2012

The State University of New York at Buffalo

PhD, Department of Geography

Geographic Information System

Application of GIS and Remote Sensing

Python scripting

Species Distribution Models (SDMs)

MaxEnt, ENFA, GNESFA, GLM

National Forest Inventory

RDBMS, R

2004

Seoul National University

MS, Environmental Studies

2001

Korea University

B.S. Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciencee

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