Welcome!
The Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Lab is led by Dr. David Bickford, the newest member of the Biodiversity Group at the Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore. The lab is multi-faceted with a variety of projects, interests, and study topics, focusing on amphibian and reptile ecology, evolution, and conservation. Goals include description and explanation of Southeast Asian biodiversity, with interests reflecting behavior, evolution, systematics, biogeography, ecology, and conservation.
Prospective Students
I welcome Masters and Ph.D. students to join the Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation lab. I have expertise working with amphibians and reptiles, but can advise students who want to work on virtually any aspects of evolutionary ecology and/ or conservation. Projects could focus on region-level questions or individual species, biogeography, phylogenetics, behavior, ecology, or multi-disciplinary approaches to help solve conservation issues. For more information, please see the NUS Faculty of Science graduate admissions website for application:
http://www.science.nus.edu.sg/prospective/graduate/
Recent Articles, Events and Press
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Barbaroula kalimantanensis: "Lungless frog discovered on Borneo" the latest article by D. Bickford, D. Iskandar and A. Barlian in Current Biology (out in May)
Lungless Frog in the Press |
Habitat Loss Drives Amphibian Extinctions
Our article
in PLOSOne has been featured in the New
Scientist.
