Associate Professor
Contact Information
- tsengm@mail.ubc.ca
- Office Phone: 604-827-4077
- Office: Room 110, Biodiversity Research Centre
- Lab: BRC 280
My Links:
https://www.bugsandplankton.com/
Research Interests
- Effects of global change on freshwater and terrestrial invertebrate communities
- Ecological, evolutionary, and immunological effects of plastic pollution
- Quantifying the effects of non-native plants on insect abundance and diversity Campus trees project
- Combining community science and computer vision to inform butterfly ecology and conservation across Canada
- Predicting the effect of urban stressors on species interactions
- Ecology and conservation of Monarch butterflies
- Synthetic textile degradation by insects
Research Team (updated March 2026)
- Erez Büyükyilmaz (grad student)
- Freya Innes (grad student)
- Phoebe Keran (undergrad worklearn)
- Nadia Paez (postdoc)
- Nathan Sewell (undergrad honours)
- Julie Sieg (undergrad research assistant & worklearn)
- Markus Thormeyer (grad student)
- Team Bug 2.0 – Gaia Mendoza & Ashleigh Wood
Selected Publications
Google Scholar Profile: link
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