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My research seeks to understand how evolutionary and ecological factors integrate to shape the distributions, abundances, and diversification of species. I explore these issues using insects as model systems, and integrate molecular techniques, population and quantitative genetics, and field studies of populations, communities, and habitat and resource use.
Projects can be categorized under three broad headings: landscape and community ecology, evolutionary ecology of insect biodiversity, and molecular ecology and spatial genetic structure. Individual studies within these broad categories range from those restricted entirely to complex field systems, to strictly molecular, highly-controlled laboratory endeavors, to those that integrate various combinations of these two extremes. I explore both theoretical issues and questions that have practical applications. In the latter context, I work to understand human impact on natural systems, with a goal towards reducing this impact.
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