Ethan White is a macroecologist at Utah State University – I caught up with him at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in August to chat about his research, and a his talk titled Evaluating a general theory of macroecology using big data. You can read the abstract for his talk here.

See also talks by members of his lab at ESA:

• Dan McGlinn: Ecological constraints predict the spatial structure of biodiversity
• Ken Locey: How species richness and total abundance constrain the distribution of abundance