Xavier A. Jaime
Ph.D.-candidate in Ecology and Conservation Biology
Over the years, I’ve worked on several significant projects that have allowed me to grow and establish myself within this competitive industry. This website aims to provide a practical glance at my career. Go ahead and explore, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to learn more.
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My research aims to understand the concepts and mechanisms behind the landscape patterns and ecological processes within heterogeneous landscapes. I use advanced Remote Sensing-GIS techniques, ecological applications, and landscape metrics to explore and investigate the ecosystem structures, functions, and processes that modulate the ecosystem services it provides. My research is generously supported by funding from the USDA NIFA.
Research Interests
As part of a novel approach, I developed hypotheses regarding the dynamism between fire-grazing interaction and the feedback between ecosystem structure, plant biodiversity, landscape position, and processes involved at multiple scales. I developed interdisciplinary methodologies to achieve this, combining ecological-based studies combining prescribed fires, quantifying compositional heterogeneity from plant diversity within physiognomically distinct metacommunities, overstory canopy cover, and fuel load distribution.
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Simultaneously, I developed Remote Sensing-based utilities of spectral diversity for representing the plant α-diversity and spatial pattern of spectral indices derived from hyperspectral imagery. These aim to assess the effect of prescribed fires and landscape positioning within complex rangeland systems in the Southern Great Plains.
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Please look at some of my projects by clicking "Learn More" below.