1) Macroecology & macroevolution: I am currently recruiting for a PhD student to work on questions of niche evolution in vertebrates. The student will assess phylogenetic predictors of climatic use and geographic range differences across taxa to address questions of how environmental use evolves. See my research page for more info. Email me with your interest, and note that the deadline for grad student application to the U of Toronto EEB Dept is ~ January 15, 2009.
2) Abundance across geographical ranges: I am currently recruiting for a PhD student to work on using different predictors (e.g., climate, resource levels or types, competitive interactions) to reliably predict abundances of species across their geographic ranges. This work is going forward for several taxa in different parts of the world. See my research page for more info. Email me with your interest, and note that the deadline for grad student application to the U of Toronto EEB Dept is ~ January 15, 2009.
PhD students
Caroline Tucker (Sept 2008 - present)
Chris Grouios (Sept 2007 - present)
Cindy Bongard (2006 - 2008)
Siavash Hassanpour (2008)
Kevin Tse (2008)
Cindy Bongard (2005)
Cindy Bongard (2004)
Honors thesis students
Kevin Tse (2008/9)
Justin Chan (2008)
Oma Singh (2007/8)
Alka Saxena (2007/8)
Cindy Bongard (2005/6)
Chandni Kher (2005/6)
Azadeh Rashvand (2005/6)
Kashif Ahmed (2004/5, 2005/6)
Volunteers
Ghazal Fazli
Ramya Ariyagunarajah
Jemy Joseph
Charles Tam
Kriti Aurora
Verna Cheung