Plants may not run around, bark at us, or generally seem very active, but they are complex organisms with needs, goals, and ways of achieving them. Julia Sigwart talks to Dr. Liam Langan about the fascinating strategies that plants use, particularly his favorite species, Populus tremula, the quaking aspen. How do plants evolve over time to adapt to their environment? And what models do scientists like Liam use to better understand these changes in ecosystems?
Copyright: Senckenberg Gesellschaft fΓΌr Naturforschung Konzept: Adrian Giacomelli, Julia Sigwart, Sabine Wilke Redaktion: Adrian Giacomelli Red.
Mitarbeit: Benjamin Wimmer Moderation: Julia Sigwart Produktion: Senckenberg Gesellschaft fΓΌr Naturforschung. My group works on the evolution of diversity in molluscs and other marine invertebrates. Morphology shapes how each species responds to environmental change, in the modern world and in the fossil record. We often focus on very strange body forms, like bivalved gastropods, or apparently conservative forms, like chitons. Understanding evolutionary radiations, survivorship, and the way animals respond to environmental change, require high resolution data from multiple disciplines, and the research infrastructure in museum collections.
The work in my research group crosses genetics, morphology, anatomy, neurobiology, physiology, computational modelling, and experimental approaches, to understand species diversity. We welcome interest from prospective PhD, MSc, BSc, or volunteer and internship projects.
Topics include. Identifying and naming species is a fundamental aspect of understanding biodiversity. These are the species and genus names of molluscs named by Dr Sigwart:. Sutton, M. Sigwart, J. Bein, B. Baeza, J. Ampuero, A. Wexford, Ireland. Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance SOSA , Brandt, A. Janssen, R. Liu, X. Mamat, N. Chen, C. Brandt, A. Sigwart ,J. Thomas, E. A, Sigwart, J. McKenna V. Colomba, M, Sigwart, J. Stefanoudis, P. T, Easton, E. Sirenko, B. Mollusca: Polyplacophora from low boreal waters of the northern Pacific.
