Cold-water corals are important habitat builders in the deep ocean worldwide. Despite being known for centuries, recent technological advances and deep-sea exploration has revealed cold-water corals thriving at depths of up to 6000m. Similar to their warm-water relatives, coldwa…
The diversity of vegetation, the above and below-ground invertebrate community, and the soil mycobiota are intrinsically linked. However, few studies have assessed the impact of non-native invasive plant species at all levels. Here, dynamics of vegetation complexity, the inverte…
The common sandpiper is an Afro-Palearctic migrant that is declining across Europe. Studies have suggested that environmental conditions during winter are likely to be important determinants of their population trends, but these trends differ between breeding regions suggesting …
My dissertation aims to understand the history of divergence and speciation in terrestrial gastropods from the Pacific Northwest of North America (PNW). Speciation is the driving force behind the diversity on earth, but most of what we know about speciation has been learned from…