News

September 2021
- Review of Evolution in Cities online in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
April 2021
- Chapter with Sarah Diamond on Plasticity's role in buying time  now published in a new open access book Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution Causes, Consequences, Controversies edited by David Pfennig.  
February 2021
- New paper presenting evidence of local adaptation in urban acorn ants from a reciprocal transplant published in Evolution (open access)
December 2020
- Iulian defends his PhD!

What we study
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Research in the lab is focused on understanding how biotic interactions and environmental variation drive natural selection, adaptive evolution and diversification. We primarily explore these topics using observational and experimental studies in arthropods and amphibians, and we use meta-analysis to evaluate the generality and predictability of empirical results. Currently we are especially interested in using cities as arenas to explore evolutionary questions.

Interested in joining the lab?

contact Dr. Martin directly at ram225 [at] case.edu with your interests and academic background.