My lab group investigates mechanisms of adaptive divergence between populations and species and the consequences of divergence for patterns of distribution and abundance. We combine experimental manipulations in the field and in the lab and observations of natural populations with tools from quantitative genetics and physiological ecology. Much of our research focuses on the evolutionary ecology of geographic ranges within the genus Mimulus ("monkeyflowers") because of their ecological diversity, history of study, genomic resources, and ease of propagation.
