I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in understanding how species (including our own) respond and adapt to changing environments. Work in my group spans from individual strategies (foraging strategies, group living) to evolutionary responses over long time scales (genetic adaptation, speciation). We specialise in using multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct past change, integrating climate reconstructions, paleontological and ecological datasets with genetic data to understand the drivers and mechanisms that led to species changing their geographic ranges and their niches.
In FORAGER, I lead the niche modelling component of the project.