Robert Bagchi

Associate Professor

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

I am a community ecologist with a particular interest in tropical plants. I also dabble in investigating the influence of environmental change on species distributions and the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem function. I use a combination of field experiments and quantitative analyses to address questions like why there are so many species of trees in tropical forests and how human activities are likely to reduce species diversity.

I did my PhD at the University of Sheffield in the UK before doing post-docs in Zurich, Oxford and Durham. Before moving to UConn I was a Senior Scientist at the ETH, Zurich.