Research Interests
Disease ecology, biodiversity, species invasion, population dynamics and range limits

Current Research Projects
Topological Features and Dynamics of Gene Flow Networks

Exploring Human Risk of Leprosy from Nine-banded Armadillos: Establishing the Geographic Distribution of Sylvatic Infection

Assessment and prediction of the effects of highways on population ecological and genetic properties of selected faunal groups

Most Current Publications:
Brooks, C.P., C. Holmes, K. Kramer, B. Barnett and T.H. Keitt. 2009. The role of demography and markets in determining deforestation rates near Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. PloS ONE 4(6): e5783. doi:1O.1371/journal.pone.0005783.

Brooks, C.P., J. Antonovics and T.H. Keitt. 2008. Metapopulation dynamics and persistence are explained by temporal heterogeneity in spatial network structure. American Naturalist 172:149-159.

Brooks, C.P. 2006. Quantifying population substructure: extending the graph-theoretic approach. Ecology 87(4):864 - 872.