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

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 

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
Patrick Stephens has joined the lab from NCEAS.

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.