PhD, University of California Santa Cruz, 2008. Dissertation title: Maternal Effects as Adaptations for Organizing Alternative Social and Antipredator Strategies.
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Ananlysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), 2009-2012. Project title: Macroevolutionary causes of regional and habitat-based biodiversity gradients.
Postdoctoral associate, Lund University, 2012-2013. Project title: Adaptation at range limits in Ischnura elegans.
My research focuses on evolution under climate change, and evolutionary processes associated with geographic range limits. I am interested in how social and behavioral factors interact with changing ecological conditions to faciliate or hinder evolutionary change and macroevolutionary processes associated with geographic range shifts and habitat shifts.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Recent work focuses on biogeography, niche evolution, and population- and community-level processes associated with climate change and invasions. My current study systems include Scottish damselflies (Odonata), experimental evolution in seed beetles (Callosobruchus maculatus), and synthesis of global data.
Non-linear transcriptomic responses to compounded environmental changes across temperature and resources in a pest beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Mccaw, B. A., Leonard, A., Lancaster, L.
Journal of Insect Science, vol. 24, no. 6, ieae106
Accounting for extinction dynamics unifies the geological and biological histories of Indo-Australian Archipelago
Herrera Alsina, L., Lancaster, L., Algar, A., Papadopulos, A., Iskandar, D. T., Bocedi, G., Creer, S., Villegas-Patraca, R., Fahri, F., Gubry-Rangin, C., Lupiyaningdyah, P., Mynard, P., Nangoy, M., Osborne, O. G., Sudiana, I. M., Juliandi, B., Burslem, F. P., Travis, J.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 291, no. 2031, 20240966
