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
Jonathan Davies, Ph.D. : +1 (805) 892 2523
Patrik Lindenfors, Ph.D. : (Sweden) +46 816 4034

January 2007
Having recently moved to UGA, we are now setting up a new lab and research projects, graduate asssstantships and postdocs currently available. For details see Research Summaries.

New Publications
Grenyer, R., Orme, C. D. L., Jackson, S. F., Thomas, G. H., Davies, R. G., Davies, T. J., Jones, K. E. Olson, V. A., Ridgely, R., Rasmussen, P., Ding, T.-S., Bennett, P. M., Blackburn, T. M., Gaston, K. J., Gittleman, J. L. and Owens, I. P. F., (2006). The global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates. Nature 444: 93-96.

coming soon...

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, (in press). The delayed rise of modern mammals. Nature.

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

Breaking News
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.