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Liverpool, United Kingdom
I am interested in how we can use DNA sequences to understand biodiversity – how do we recognise species, and how are species related at taxonomic, ecological and geographic levels? My passion for biodiversity research has led me from the world’s largest natural history collection - Natural History Museum, London, where I completed my MSc, to the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario - global centre for the international Barcode of Life, as a PhD student, and to the hyper-diverse tropics of Southeast Asia. The tropics will be the first regions to experience historically unprecedented climates and this will happen within the next decade. Consequently my recent research has focussed on understanding the effects of urbanisation and climate change on tropical and subtropical biodiversity - encompassing both species richness and ecological integrity across a diversity of taxonomic groups.

Aug 2, 2017

RESEARCH UPDATE - INSECT BIODIVERSITY: SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Books always take a long time to publish. Our chapter for the 1st edition of this book was written in 2007 and the book came out in 2009. Similarly, our chapter (Chapter 17) for the 2nd edition was written some time ago and the book is finally available to order from the website here: http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118945530.html

This time I took over primary writer duties from Robin Floyd. It was really enjoyable putting this chapter together. Although the barcoding statistics become outdated on a daily basis, I think this chapter (especially when read alongside the 1st edition) still provides a revelant review assessing how far we have come in building a barcode libary for all insects.

The chapter is available on sci-hub.cc, search DOI: 10.1002/9781118945568.ch17