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Sapna Sharma

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Sapna Sharma
Full Professor

Department

Biology

Eligible to Supervise

Biology Graduate Program

Website

Contact

Office Location Lumbers Building, 326
Phone Number (416)736-2100 x 33761 (Voicemail)

About Me

Broadly, I am interested in predicting the effects of environmental stressors, such as climate change, invasive species, and habitat alteration, on lakes. 

Winter is changing. With the recent warming patterns that are expected to continue, lakes are  for , or for the  In the lab, we explore how patterns of lake ice have shifted over recent centuries and what these patterns might look like in the future, including the implications for humans and wildlife.

Human-induced environmental stressors are among the leading drivers of change in freshwater ecosystems. We are currently researching the impacts of multiple stressors on , , and nutrient content in lakes around the world. We use  and machine learning to address novel research questions in 

Our research has increased our understanding of how different taxa and ecological communities respond to  along a gradient of  and . We also develop quantitative frameworks to predict the effects of environmental stressors on wide-ranging ecosystems.

Research Focus

Predicting the effects of environmental stressors, such as climate change, invasive species, and habitat alteration on ecosystems and improving the use of quatitative approaches used to generate these predictions.

Sub-Disciplines

Aquatic Ecology, Climate Change, Community Ecology, Quantitative Ecology, Cryosphere

Research Areas

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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