Presentation: David Ensing – Research on Invasive Biological Plant Control at the Summerland Research and Development Centre

Dave is a Vegetation Ecologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Summerland,
BC, where together with a team of technicians and graduate and undergraduate students,
his research program focuses on the ecology and evolution of invasive plants and their
biological controls, Indigenous food systems, and non-crop vegetation in perennial
horticulture crops like wine grapes and apples. He has undergraduate (BSc. Hons, 2011)
and MSc (2013) degrees in biology from UBC Okanagan in Kelowna. He completed his
PhD in Biology at Queen’s University (2019) where he studied the evolutionary ecology of
species range limits, or why species occur where they do, and not where they don’t. When
not at work, Dave enjoys mountain biking, backcountry camping and keeping invasive
plants out of his yard with his family!