Tesa Madsen-McQueen

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  • Tesa Madsen-McQueen is a PhD student at the University of California Riverside in the department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, where she studies plant community ecology and vegetation responses to anthropogenic global change. She began her career working as a seasonal field botanist in the Ozarks, where, after becoming intimately familiar with the flora, she became captivated with the seemingly endless variety of morphological differences within and among plant species and wondered how such differences translated into larger-scale patterns of biodiversity. She pursued her Master of Science degree in biology from Appalachian State University, where her curiosity shifted from studying individual taxonomic entities to understanding the interrelationships which govern processes of ecological organization. Recognizing the weight of scientific narrative in an era of ecological crisis, she is also passionate about the history and philosophy of science as it can help understand and reshape ecology as a worldview.


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