Dr. Ana Davidson is a Research Scientist III at the Colorado Natural Heritage Program at Colorado State University (CSU) and a Joint Faculty member in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at CSU. Her research centers broadly on the ecology and conservation of biological diversity, in the context of global change, and spans multiple scales from local-scale community ecology and landscape ecology, to global-scale macroecology. Her field research often focuses on species that play large and important ecological roles that shape and transform ecosystems, such as burrowing rodents and large mammalian herbivores, and are central to the conservation of associated species. A major focus of her current work is on the conservation of North America’s Central Grasslands – one of the most imperiled ecosystems in the world.