Jedediah Brodie

Professor Jedediah Brodie is the Craighead Endowed Chair at the University of Montana and a conservation biologist whose research focuses on tropical forest ecology, climate resilience, and species interactions. Working across tropical regions, he studies how anthropogenic pressures such as hunting, habitat alteration, and climate change affect biodiversity, habitat connectivity, and forest carbon dynamics. His research combines long-term field studies, including camera trapping, acoustic monitoring, and drone-based surveys, with ecological modeling to try to understand the structure of ecological communities and how critical functions such as forest carbon storage change under climate and defaunation pressures. Brodie has contributed to large-scale conservation planning, including helping develop landscape connectivity strategies and identify 350,000 hectares for new protected areas in Malaysia. He recently served as an elected councilor for the ATBC, is a research fellow at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and co-chairs the IUCN-WCPA Climate Change and Protected Areas Specialist Group.