My name is Elizabeth Forbes; I am a PhD in ecology studying the intersection between large wildlife communities and the carbon cycling of the ecosystems they're found in.​

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My PhD research took place in Laikipia, Kenya, at the Mpala Research Centre, where I studied how the experimental loss of large herbivores like elephants and giraffes impacts how (and where) carbon cycles throughout the savanna. My current research focuses on moose in Newfoundland, Canada, and how to determine whether the increasingly dense population's negative impacts on forest regeneration have translated into negative effects on the system's carbon balance (whether it is a sink or source for atmospheric carbon dioxide).

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I'm also really interested in the intersections between art and science, and policy and science, and work to integrate both into my work as an ecologist.