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About

I have broad interests in ecology and evolutionary biology and in uniting these fields to study how biological diversity is organized into communities and how it has developed over evolutionary time.  My research interests span such topics as plant-insect and tri-trophic interactions, the processes of population differentiation and speciation, phylogenetic systematics, and the structure of ecological communities. My focus is primarily on insects, which, due to their immense taxonomic and ecological diversity, offer countless opportunities to examine a wide range of ecological and evolutionary questions.

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Education/Academic qualification

Postdoctoral Fellow, Iowa State University

20022005

Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University

20012002

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, PhD, University of Arizona

… → 2001

Biology, BS, University of Utah

… → 1993

Research Interests

  • Processes of Population Differentiation and Speciation
  • Phylogenetic Systematics
  • Structure of Ecological Communitites

Disciplines

  • Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Entomology