Ryan Pienaar
Postdoc
608-890-3160
126A Russell Labs
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Education
2025: PhD, Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation, Department of Plant and Wildlife Science, Brigham Young University
2020: BS, Biology, Department of Animal, Plant and Environment Science, University of the Witwatersrand
Research interests
My research interests involve understanding how human actions affect ecosystem processes. Projects I have worked on include understanding how lions are affected by temperature under climate change and how plants and animals in forest and desert ecosystems are affected by changing fire regimes. My work at UW Madison will focus on how spread of plant disease in forests affects black bear populations.
Personal interests
I love playing sports, mostly rugby but I enjoy anything with a ball. I also love to eat and spend time outside.
