Expertise
Small mammal ecology; evolutionary biology.
Conservation and Restoration Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Tropical Biology
Research Interests:
My current research interests include the effect of habitat fragmentation on small mammal populations; I am interested in the effects of habitat patchiness on source-sink dynamics and the genetic structuring of populations, the evolution of mating systems in mammals using techniques in molecular genetics, and conservation genetics of threatened and endangered mammalian species.
I am currently studying the effects of habitat fragmentation on small mammal populations on hammock islands in the Florida Everglades, genetic variation in the silver rice rat (Oryzomys argentatus) in the Florida Keys, and the population dynamics of the endangered Key Largo woodrat, Neotoma floridana smalli.