Collectively, this dissertation explores taxonomy, biodiversity studies, natural history collections, ecology, and theory. The first chapter is focused on the genus Prolixandromyces , in which 4 new species are described, representing the first records of this genus in South Ame…
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Lentinoid and Pleurotoid mushrooms (Polyporales and Agaricales) from South East Asia are well known for their edibility. However, taxonomic and genetic diversity of both groups are not well represented especially in Borneo. This study revealed the diversity of lentinoid ( Lentin…
The Miocene to Pliocene fossil record of the Siwalik Hills in Pakistan yields abundant material of hipparionine equids. This material has been intensively investigated over the last 150 years, but previous reports did not include precise stratigraphic and paleomagnetic data as w…
The current dissertation project integrates revisionary taxonomy, comparative morphology, molecular phylogenetics and comparative evolutionary analyses to investigate the diversity and evolution of assassin bugs, focusing on the Malagasy Bekilya group (Peiratinae) and the New Wo…
Questions about taxonomic diversity and biogeography of Eastern Tarsiers were addressed with mtDNA and recordings of vocalizations. A transect was plotted from the Sangihe Islands, north of Sulawesi, to the Togian Islands of Tomini Bay in the south. The transect was over 1000 km…
Traffic engineering and network management tasks enable the operation of communication networks at optimal levels of performance and efficiency. Performance is usually captured by metrics perceived by users such as message delays and losses. Efficiency usually concerns how well …
Lernaeocera branchialis (L., 1767) is a parasitic copepod that parasitises a range of gadoids by anchoring in the proximity of the branchial chamber of its host, deriving nutrition from the blood of its host and causing serious pathogenic effects. This study investigates the tax…
This practice-led research project explores English and French sentimental jewellery of the Victorian period. ‘Sentimental jewellery’ or ‘message jewellery’ denotes jewellery created to function as a tangible expression of feeling between donor and recipient, mediated through co…
Tokuichi Shiraki and Masamitsu Oshima were the first entomologists who studied termites in Taiwan in the early 1900s.The identification of Coptotermes species in Taiwan and southern Japan was a controversial issue that involved several Japanese entomologists as well as European …
Reduviidae (assassin bugs), the largest clade of predatory non-holometabolous insects (∼6,800 species), display a range of prey specializations and members of one subfamily, the Triatominae, feed on vertebrate blood and are the vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi. A combination of phyl…
This study seeks to demonstrate connections between theatre and conflict, as inspired by metaphor and embodied by case studies of four theatrical organizations working in conflict zones: The Freedom Theatre in Palestine, Ajoka Theatre in Pakistan, DAH Teater in Serbia, and Belar…
The Middle Paleolithic Levant was presumably home to a variety of equid and other mammalian species originating from three continents co-mingling within the land bridge that is “the Levant corridor”. The biogeography of equid species may aid in contextualizing human migration pa…
During the Cretaceous the Caribbean was home to vast carbonate platforms where rudist bivalves contributed extensively to reef development. Carbonate platforms have been well-studied in Mexico and Texas, but less so in some Caribbean islands. On the island of Puerto Rico, the Ba…
The evolution of species radiations has involved two processes: diversification, or the formation of many species, as well as disparification, the differentiation of species in traits associated with differing ecological niches. Extremes of disparification are a hallmark of clas…
This dissertation is a history of how microbial culture techniques reframed nature’s order in chemical terms. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, scientific workers developed techniques to study diseases and control fermentations, making chemical activities of microo…
Comparative phylogeography is the study of the effects of biogeography and evolutionary history on the spatial distribution of genetic variation of codistributed species. This approach allows investigation of the links between population processes and regional patterns. Here, I …
Sirenids are enigmatic in their biology, behavior, and phylogenetic relationships. These eel-like salamanders are morphologically unique, with slender bodies and absent lower extremities. Species in the genus Siren all maintain this body plan, with some slight variation in pheno…
Aplacophorans are shell-less, vermiform, marine mollusks that have a cuticle covered in calcareous scales or spines called sclerites. They are found worldwide in benthic marine habitats and are ecologically important to the deep sea. There has been a recent increase in aplacopho…
The endemic Hawaiian flowering plant genus Hibiscadelphus was described by Joseph F. Rock based on two species found on Hawaii island and one species from Maui in 1911. In the years since, five additional species have been described, one from Hawaii island, two from Kauai, and o…