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About Me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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

Winter is changing. With the recent warming patterns that are expected to continue, lakes are freezing less often,<\/a> for shorter periods of time<\/a>, or for the very last time.<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human-induced environmental stressors are among the leading drivers of change in freshwater ecosystems. We are currently researching the impacts of multiple stressors on water quality<\/a>, primary production<\/a>, and nutrient content in lakes around the world. We use big data<\/a> and machine learning to address novel research questions in global change biology.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our research has increased our understanding of how different taxa and ecological communities respond to environmental stressors<\/a> along a gradient of spatial<\/a> and temporal scales<\/a>. We also develop quantitative frameworks to predict the effects of environmental stressors on wide-ranging ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Focus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sub-Disciplines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aquatic Ecology, Climate Change, Community Ecology, Quantitative Ecology, Cryosphere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","department":[3],"research-area":[15],"un-goal":[],"research-method":[],"graduate-program-membership":[38],"graduate-program-physics":[],"admin-faculty-title-department":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-1145","faculty","type-faculty","status-publish","hentry","department-biology","research-area-ecology","graduate-program-membership-biology-gp"],"yoast_head":"\nSapna Sharma - Faculty of Science Profiles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/profiles\/faculty\/sapna-sharma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sapna Sharma - Faculty of Science Profiles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. 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