Emily successfully defended her thesis and graduated last semester, and now is off to bigger things. Her work included testing predictions of island biogeography using small mammals on glades, and a comparison of ectoparasite and small mammal community structure. She’s headed to South Carolina for a field position as she awaits to hear about future graduate positions.
A new paper on the impacts of connectivity and climate on the persistence and genetic structure of Belding’s Ground Squirrel is now available here! We show that specific aspects of the landscape limit dispersal, and that recent climate change is associated occupancy and allelic richness. This represents analysis completed while I was with MVZ and ESPM at Berkeley, as part of an offshoot of the Grinnell Resurvey Project, and it was funded by the CA LCC.
Maher Lab - Computational Wildlife Ecology 