Biodiversity & Macroevolution

Our research group is focused on large-scale ecological and evolutionary questions that relate to origins, patterns and causes of differences between species. We work mainly on mammals. Our research is synthetic, involving large comparative databases, complete phylogenies ("supertrees") and statistical comparative methods.

Professor John Gittleman, D. Phil. : +1 (706) 542 2968
Patrick Stephens, Ph.D. : +1 (706) 542-3971
Barbara Han, Ph.D. : +1 (706) 542-3971
Shan Huang : +1 (706) 542-3971

Fall 2011
The final draft of the upcoming volume Metabolic Ecology (Wiley-Blackwell, J. H. Brown and R. M. Sibley, eds.), has been submitted to the publisher.

New Publications 

 

Smith, F. A., A. G. Boyer, J. H. Brown, D. P. Costa, T. Dayan, S. K. Morgan Ernest, A. R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J. L. Gittleman, M. J. Hamilton, L. E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S. K. Lyons, C. McCain, J. Okie, J. J. Saarinen, R. M. Sibley, P. R. Stephens, J. Theodor, and M. D. Uhen. (2010) The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals.  Science 330: 1216-1219.

 

Davies, T. J.,  A. Purvis, and J. L. Gittleman (2009) Quaternary climate change and the geographic ranges of mammals. American Naturalist 174: 297-307.

Jones, K. E., N G. Patel, M. A. Levy, A. Storeygard, D. Balk, J. L. Gittleman, and P. Daszak (2008) Global trends in emerging infectious diseases.  Nature 451: 990-993.

Davies, T.J., Fritz, S. A., Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Bielby, J., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., Gittleman, J.L., Mace, G.M. and Purvis, A. (2008) Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 105 suppl. 1 11556-11563.

Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., MacPhee, R.D.E., Beck, R.M.D., Grenyer, R. Samantha A. Price, S.A., Gittleman, J.L. Purvis, A. (2007). The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature 446: 507-512.

Davies, T. J., Meiri, S., Barraclough, T. G. and Gittleman, J. L. (2007) Species coexistence and character divergence across carnivores. Ecology Letters 10: 146-152.

Breaking news
Our newest graduate student, Sara Heisel has joined the lab.

 

2011

Patrick Stephens has been promoted to Assistant Research Scientist in the Odum School of Ecology.

 

2007
Rich Grenyer will be moving to NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London.

Jonathan Davies has moved to NCEAS University of California Santa Barbara.

 

2006
Sam Price accepted a Research Fellowship at NESCent

Kim Dodd successfully defended her MSc thesis and will be enrolling in veterinary school in 2007