Graduate
students in the lab work on a range of evolutionary and ecological
questions
and on projects that are most often independent of my research.
Projects
have focused on the determinants of species distributions at ecological
and
evolutionary time scales, determinants of genetic variation within and
among
populations, adaptation with respect to biotic and abiotic
environments,
meta-population dynamics, and behavioral ecology. Students have
worked
on plants and animals.
Postdocs often join in my own research and expand on the work in
directions
of particular interest. Postdocs have also brought independent funding
for
their own research projects.
Undergraduate students often begin as assistants on my research or that
of
my graduate students and postdocs. Some students also develop
independent
projects that often lead to honors theses. Examples of independent
projects
include
- Variation in
photosynthetic physiology between flower color morphs of Dame's Rocket
(R. Gonzalez)
- Population
differentiation
in the range expansion of a native maritime plant (J. Brauer)
- Hybrid
inviability
in F1 between two subspecies of Clarkia xantiana (A. Senft)
- Evolutionary
response to artificial selection on flower size and implications for
breeding
system evolution in Clarkia xantiana (S. Markovich, C. Noss)
- Water
potential
and gas exchange differences among genotypes of Polygonum arenastrum
(A. Sultana, D. Steinberg)
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