Assistant Professor
Department of Land and Food Systems, Department of Forest Resources Management
Contact Details
matthew.mitchell@ubc.ca
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Matthew Mitchell is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Department of Forest Resources Management. His research focuses on how to manage human-dominated landscapes, including agricultural and urban landscapes, for both people and nature. This includes understanding how the arrangement of different land uses and habitats across these areas affects ecosystem services and biodiversity, how to effectively quantify both the supply of ecosystem services and their demand by people, and identifying key management actions that can lead to win-win situations for multiple ecosystem services and biodiversity. He also leads the long-term biodiversity monitoring program at the UBC Farm and is working to develop new tools to effectively monitor agricultural biodiversity on diversified farms and link this to key socio-ecological outcomes. He completed his Ph.D. at McGill University in 2014, a M.Sc. at the University of Alberta in 2006, and a B.Sc. (Honours) at the University of Victoria in 2002.
Research Themes
Landscape ecology | Ecosystem services | Urban ecology | Agrobiodiversity | Conservation
Geographical Area(s) of Research
Canada