Climate change ecology
I am broadly interested in the processes of historical climate change in shaping biodiversity through time and I have investigated this topic at several scales in a variety of systems.
I am interested in these processes from both basic (how does climate influence distribution) as well as applied (what does this mean for conservation) perspectives. I have collaborated with others to investigate these questions at the population genetic (Devitt et al. 2013), phylogeographic (Thomasson et al. 2010, 2011) and population scales (Rubidge et al. 2011, Schmidt et al. 2012), all within a quantitative spatially-explicit framework. Currently, students in the lab are working in a variety of systems (reptiles in Mexico, mesocarnivores in Florida, global amphibian diseases) but are united both in terms of questions (understanding how environmental factors such as climate influence populations through space and time) and approaches (developing spatially-explicit models to make quantitative predictions). I am the Co-PI & lead for the Latin American node of the Global Women Scholars Network. GWSN is a Research Coondination Network funded by the National Science Foundation under grant #OCI-1140182. |