Research and Teaching Interests: Ecology, evolution, and quantitative methods.
In particular, we focus on how differences among individuals in they way they look, perform, or behave affect survival, mating success, and reproductive output to quantitatively predict population level changes within and between generations.
Subject area:
- Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Core,
- Evolutionary Genetics & Systematics Core.
The overarching question of our research is how do natural selection and inheritance interact to shape phenotypes over time? We study the factors within populations that generate among individual differences in highly conspicuous features of mating systems, life histories, and sexual dimorphisms.
Thus, our research addresses fundamental questions in biology regarding how organisms mate, what maintains adaptive genetic variation, and how do populations respond to environmental change.
