Rate My Professor Carly Ziter

Carly Ziter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Concordia University. Her research areas include landscape ecology, ecosystem services, biodiversity science, urban ecology, multifunctional landscapes, forest ecology, land-use legacies, and sustainability. She leads the Ziter Urban Landscape Ecology Lab, which conducts solutions-oriented science to enhance biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision in urban and urbanizing landscapes. The lab uses fieldwork, advanced sensor data, and synthesis approaches to examine how landscape structure, land-use history, and biodiversity interact to impact multiple ecosystem services. Research in the lab is grounded in landscape and ecosystem ecology and emphasizes interdisciplinary partnerships and community engagement.

Ziter holds the New Scholar Concordia University Research Chair in Urban Ecology and Sustainability. She teaches BIOL 226: Ecology & Biodiversity and BIOL 398: Ecology of Urban Environments. Select publications include “Scale-dependent interactions between tree canopy cover and impervious surfaces reduce daytime urban heat during summer” (PNAS, 2019), “Current and historical land use influence soil-based ecosystem services in an urban landscape” (Ecological Applications, 2018), and “The biodiversity-ecosystem service relationship in urban areas: A quantitative review” (Oikos, 2016). She began her faculty position at Concordia University on December 1, 2018.