Conservation for one taxon, is not conservation for all taxa: the map highlights areas of over- and under-prediction of biodiversity, using one taxon to predict diversity in other taxa.
Organismal physiologies can help us refine predictions of vulnerability to global change and improve conservation plans. From: Jenkins, C. N., B. Guénard, S. E. Diamond, M. D. Weiser, and R. R. Dunn. 2013. Conservation implications of divergent global patterns of ant and vertebrate diversity. Diversity and Distributions 19:1084-1092. |
Globally, we are experiencing unprecedented contemporary changes in climate, land-use, and species invasions and introductions. Each of these changes has the potential to generate novel environments, in some cases, far beyond the range of typical variation seen over the history of life on Earth. Research in the Diamond lab is focused on understanding and predicting biological responses to changing and novel environments. |
UrbanizationHarnessing the power of a globally replicated warming experiment, we study how arthropods respond to urban development, linking changes in community structure and function to organismal physiologies.
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Climate ChangeFrom ants to butterflies, we use basic principles of physiological ecology at micro- to macro-scales to develop ecological forecasts of ectothermic species responses to recent climate change.
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Species IntroductionsWe use tobacco hornworms, a common pest of the Solanaceae, to explore how native herbivores respond to anthropogenically-mediated host plant species introductions.
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