Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Environmental Conservation
160 Holdsworth Way
Amherst, MA 01003

Holdsworth Hall
Room 118 | (413) 545-2454
bscheng@umass.edu

Office hours: Fall 2025 – Tues / Thurs 11:15-12:15

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I am an ecologist and I use laboratory and field approaches to ask questions about nature. My interests are general but I’m particularly focused on the interplay between environmental stress (climate change and local stressors), species invasions, and species interactions (e.g. predation). Lately, I’ve been working towards integrating ecology and biogeography. I mostly collect empirical data, but I also synthesize known data to gain insight into how marine ecosystems work.