Kim Komatsu
Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair and Florence Schaffer Distinguished Scholar
Biology
Email Address: kjkomatsu@uncg.edu
Education
PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
Courses Taught
- BIO 731: Environmental Health Science I
- BIO 444: Entomology
- BIO 457: Biological Data Wrangling and Visualization
- BIO 449: Special Topics in Biology
Research
Komatsu investigates how ecosystem responses to global change drivers are mediated by biotic processes. Specifically, she studies how ecosystem function is influenced by mutualisms, competition, consumers, and alterations in abiotic resource availability. Projects in her lab examine a diverse suite of global change drivers, such as nutrient deposition and runoff, consumer loss, altered climatic regimes, and species invasions. Komatsu uses a variety of techniques to investigate ecosystem responses to global change agents, including long-term experiments, observational data collection, and statistical data synthesis.