My research interests lie at the intersection of behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation policy. These broad themes can be divided into four focal categories as follows; 1) sustainable management of wild populations; 2) behavioral mechanisms of vulnerability including demographic susceptibility, hybridization and maintenance of species boundaries; 3) taxonomic status and its relationship to protection of biodiversity including areas of endemism; cryptic lineages and phylogeographic patterns; and 4) the identification of genetic change over time in response to anthropogenic factors including the utilization of archival DNA to identify baseline conditions for recovery and to predict genetic outcomes under climate change scenarios
