As the unprecedented rate of environmental change continues,
the adaptability of a population or a species becomes critical for the future biodiversity.
At the organismal level, the capacity to adapt might depend on the current distribution range,
life-history traits, and types of environmental or ecological drivers that incur selective pressure.
I am interested to understand
1) the evolutionary benefits & constraints of life-history tactics,
2) how such tactics can promote or restrain organismic response to a rapidly changing environment and a new evolutionary landscape.
My focus is on Arctic-breeding shorebirds with a diverse range of mating systems, in complex association with sexual size dimorphism, ontogenetic growth rate, parental care and migration strategies.
the adaptability of a population or a species becomes critical for the future biodiversity.
At the organismal level, the capacity to adapt might depend on the current distribution range,
life-history traits, and types of environmental or ecological drivers that incur selective pressure.
I am interested to understand
1) the evolutionary benefits & constraints of life-history tactics,
2) how such tactics can promote or restrain organismic response to a rapidly changing environment and a new evolutionary landscape.
My focus is on Arctic-breeding shorebirds with a diverse range of mating systems, in complex association with sexual size dimorphism, ontogenetic growth rate, parental care and migration strategies.