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Ryan Germain will be visiting the department on the 22nd of November and I thought it would be interesting to get an update on what he's been doing since he left Aberdeen. He has recently published a paper in PNAS on tracking avian functional diversity over evolutionary timescales using trait data and genomic estimates.
A brief outline of Ryan's recent work and his bio are below:
"Despite evidence of declining biosphere integrity, we currently have limited understanding of how the functional diversity associated with changes in abundance among ecological communities has varied over time and before wide-spread human disturbances. We combine morphological, life-history, and ecological trait data for >260 bird species with genomic-based estimates of changing effective population size (Ne) to quantify shifts in avian functional diversity over the past million years. This method allows for tracking changes in functional diversity over evolutionary timescales and helps establish baselines to quantify losses of biosphere integrity before the Anthropocene."
“Ryan Germain is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen, where he uses genomic and paleo-ecological tools to measure demographic responses of bird populations to climate change. He completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia looking at the quantitative genetics and habitat ecology of song sparrows, and has held postdoc positions at the University of Aberdeen and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.”
- Speaker
- Ryan Germain
- Hosted by
- Roslyn Henry
- Venue
- Zoology Lecture Theatre
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