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Theresa Ong is an agroecologist who combines theory with empirical work in agricultural systems to understand how complex interactions between the environment, organisms and people ultimately influence food production and ecosystem stability. Her work focuses on how biocomplexity in terms of space, time and species diversity, influences the resilience of agricultural systems to both ecological and political perturbations. Specific interests include urban agriculture, agroforestry, biological control, critical transition theory, socio-ecological modeling, biocomplexity and spatio-temporal synchrony.
Environmental Studies
Ong, T.W., Roman-Alcalá, A., Jiménez-Soto, E., Jackson, E., Perfecto, I., Duff, H., 2024. Momentum for agroecology in the USA. Nature Food 5, 539–541. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-01006-w)
Ong, T.W., Lin, B.B., Lucatero, A., Cohen, H., Bichier, P., Egerer, M.H., Danieu, A., Jha, S., Philpott, S.M., Liere, H., 2022. Rarity begets rarity: Social and environmental drivers of rare organisms in cities. Ecological Applications 32, e2708. (https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2708)
Ong, T.W., Liao, W., 2020. Agroecological Transitions: A Mathematical Perspective on a Transdisciplinary Problem. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 4. (https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00091)
Ong, T. W., and J. Vandermeer. 2018. Multiple hysteretic patterns from elementary population models. Theoretical Ecology:1–7. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12080-018-0376-1), F1000 Prime: https://f1000.com/prime/733670582