Richard Ree (PI)
I'm a curator in the Botany Department at the Field Museum of Natural History, and a lecturer/advisor in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology graduate program at the University of Chicago. My general interests lie in the evolution and diversification of flowering plants, especially with regard to systematics, biogeography, and phylogenetic comparative methods.
Biodiversity Synthesis at the Field Museum
The Encyclopedia of Life is a major initiative to aggregate and organize information about all known species via the Internet. I am actively involved in this effort in my role as Assistant Director of the EOL's Biodiversity Synthesis Center, located within the Field Museum. The mission of BioSynC is to engage the scientific community by facilitating collaborative efforts to contribute to, and analyze, EOL content.
Welcome to the lab's new web site!
After many years of editing HTML by hand, I've moved to Drupal, and am in the process of figuring out this business about "nodes", "taxonomy", etc. Familiar terms in a biological context but rather different in that of Web2.0. Right now I'm focusing on content but hope to add more images soon, to jazz things up a little.
Recent site additions
- Tred - experiments in web-based tree editing
- Biodiversity Synthesis at the Field Museum
- Older stuff (gapcode.py, web utilities)
- Stochastic mapping and key innovation tests (old)
- Systematics and biogeography of Corydalis (Papaveraceae:Fumariodeae)
- Phylografter: collaborative phylogenetic tree assembly
- Lagrange: likelihood analysis of geographic range evolution
- Systematics and evolution of Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae)
- Inference methods for historical biogeography
- Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains and adjacent areas of south-central China
Recent publications
- Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages
- Prospects and challenges for parametric models in historical biogeographical inference
- The 29°N latitudinal line: an important division in the Hengduan Mountains, a biodiversity hotspot in southwest China
- Molecular phylogeny, divergence time estimates, and historical biogeography of Circaea (Onagraceae) in the Northern Hemisphere
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