I am a plant population biologist with research focused in two areas:

conservation ecology, including the development of general tools for population and range modeling, as well as building knowledge about particular rare species, and

evolutionary ecology, including bet hedging, life history evolution, breeding system evolution, and comparative analyses of the evolution of climatic niches.

Thus my research encompasses plant ecology, evolution, and conservation. I use a variety of tools – from demography and reproductive biology in natural and experimental settings to phylogenies and trait evolution, from species distribution modeling to hierarchical Bayesian population viability analysis – in order to study plant diversity, its origins, dynamics, and conservation.

recent news Evans et al. 2011 has been selected as recommended reading by Deborah Charlesworth (Faculty of 1000) Evans et al. 2010 featured on ESA’s Plant Population Ecology Section website, November, 2011