"I am excited to be a recipient of the 2022 Biodiversity Institute Graduate Student Enhancement Grant. This grant is a major boost for my PhD research on how biodiversity is maintained in a small mammal community of a Kenyan savanna. This award will help me understand the underlying mechanisms to one of the most pervasive patterns in ecology, the positive relationship between abundance and distribution of species (AOR). I will be able to complete the final step of my…"