Phylogenetic comparative methods use phylogenies to ask interesting evolutionary questions. They can be used to: study speciation and extinction determine how quickly or slowly evolutionary changes ...

Areas of expertise include community ecology, experimental design of field and greenhouse studies, species distribution modeling, climate change vulnerability analyses, phylogenetic comparative ...

Within this broad scope, the project has the following objectives: (1) To use phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM) to understand coupled or modular adaptations in body proportions across major ...

Building on this phylogenetic framework, we will use comparative methods and biochemical profiling to quantify the evolutionary relationship between changes in the expression of pathway genes and ...

I am interested the adaptive significance of coloration in mammals and I use comparative phylogenetic methods, simple field experiments and sophisticated photographic methodology to understand the ...