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EvoTRAC field crew during stream “bioblitz” of the remote Oyacachi basin, Ecuador, way back in 2012. Tropical mountains are the most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems of the world, but the causes of this exceptional species richness have eluded biologists for centuries. In 1967, Dan Janzen postulated that reduced temperature seasonality in the tropics […] Photo credit: Tyler Kartzinel Recent lab alumnus, Brian Gill, has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute for Environment and Society at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Principal Investigator Tyler Kartzinel, Brian will utilize cutting-edge molecular tools to […] The newly anointed DR. Gill with his co-advisers, Boris Kondratieff and Chris Funk, and committee members, LeRoy Poff and Will Clements. Congratulations to Dr. Brian Gill for successfully defending his PhD!!! A view of the Oyacachi River. Napo Province, Ecuador. Photo by Andrea Encalada. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B: Biological Sciences recently accepted a paper by Brian Gill and other EVOTRAC coauthors and will feature part of their Ecuadorian study area as their journal cover. In support of the ‘Mountain Passes […] Volcan Antisana, Napo Province, Ecuador (Photo credit: Brian Gill) Brian Gill and his PhD co-advisors Chris Funk and Boris Kondratieff will use this grant to build on their work estimating elevation range sizes of mountain stream insect taxa in Colorado and Ecuador to test the Climate Variability Hypothesis. In both the Rockies […] Brian Gill, PhD CANDIDATE!! The confluence of a tributary with the mainstem of the Oyacachi River, and prime habitat for the high elevation stonefly Claudioperla tigrina (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae) Brian Gill, Kayce Anderson, and Nick Polato (Cornell University) recently returned from fieldwork sampling aquatic insects in the Ecuadorian Andes for EvoTRAC’s landscape genomics project. Their goal was to supplement […] Anacroneuria sp. (Plecoptera: Perlidae) As part of EvoTRAC’s Bioblitz, new species of stoneflies (Plecoptera) have been described. The specimens collected by Boris Kondratieff and Brian Gill were included in a study lead by Bill Stark describing five new species of South American Anacroneuria. One was named after EvoTRAC project manager and Funk Lab member […] This summer Brian Gill–a PhD student co-advised by Boris Konratieff and Chris Funk–traveled to San Jose Costa Rica to present preliminary data in a talk detailing taxonomic differences between Colorado Rocky Mountain and Ecuadorian stream insects. He presented information on the effects of DNA barcoding on perception of diversity in these two systems, and […] The rare winter stonefly, Capnia arapahoe (Plecoptera: Capniidae) Brian’s manuscript on elevational diversity patterns in Rocky Mountain stream insects has been accepted for publication next March in a special edition of the journal Freshwater Science. The issue will focus on the use of molecular tools in freshwater systems. It is one of the first […] |
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