About me
- johnjameswilson
- 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 3, 2017
RESEARCH UPDATE - UBANET
My main research focus lately is urban butterfly ecology. As the "Urban Butterflies in Asia Research Network" my colleagues and I have been awarded a CRYS grant from the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research and we have been conducting surveys in Beijing, Shenzhen and Bangkok. Follow my updates under this research area at: http://uba-net.simplesite.com/435768408
