Research Interests
Our research spans across temporal and spatial scales to ask how and why plant species diversify. We use a range of tools including phylogenetics, herbarium specimens, specimen databases and field ecology to answer the basic question of what species are and where they live.
Recent Highlights:
Check out the profile on our climate change research in the SJSU Research Foundation's 2019 Report!
Here's a link to a short public radio interview on Channel Islands biogeography from 2018.
SJSU students- If you're interested in joining the lab, please email me
Current research projects include:
-Studying coexistence and niche evolution among sympatric Scleropodium species
-Floristic studies of bryophytes in California (San Luis Obispo and Santa Clara Counties, the Channel Islands, the White Mountains)
-Hypothesis testing in bryophyte systematics, using herbarium specimens and molecular data
-Testing biogeographic hypotheses in mosses using herbarium specimen data and niche modeling
- Conservation biology of Dudley's Lousewort in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Click on the links below to learn more ...
Recent Highlights:
Check out the profile on our climate change research in the SJSU Research Foundation's 2019 Report!
Here's a link to a short public radio interview on Channel Islands biogeography from 2018.
SJSU students- If you're interested in joining the lab, please email me
Current research projects include:
-Studying coexistence and niche evolution among sympatric Scleropodium species
-Floristic studies of bryophytes in California (San Luis Obispo and Santa Clara Counties, the Channel Islands, the White Mountains)
-Hypothesis testing in bryophyte systematics, using herbarium specimens and molecular data
-Testing biogeographic hypotheses in mosses using herbarium specimen data and niche modeling
- Conservation biology of Dudley's Lousewort in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Click on the links below to learn more ...