Madagascar Phylogeography |
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Madagascar is one of most concentrated regions of biodiversity in the world. Within Anne D. Yoder's lab group, I combined population genetics and biogeography to model and infer how historical landscape and climatic patterns governed small mammal diversity on the island.
I am indebted to Lauren M. Chan as a collaborator on much of this statistical phylogeography research at Duke University. |
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Savanna Ecology and Conservation |
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South Africa's savannas are biodiversity hotspots that have been the center of debates on economic value, management policy, and conservation biology. Within Kruger National Park, tourists and organisms interact on a daily basis, making it a goldmine for researchers interested in conservation and/or management practices. With the Organization for Tropical Studies, I helped reveal complex ecological interactions between bats and megaherbivores, and recorded predator-prey interactions in the savanna. These studies, among others, help inform successful conservation and biodiversity research.
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Bat Diversity of the Southwest US |
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The species richness of bats in the American Southwest is unparalleled by any other region of the country. Much of this diversity is possibly attributed to the complex geography of the deserts and mountains, including the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona. At the Southwestern Research Station, I sampled the local bat diversity using a combination of direct trapping and acoustic sampling.
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