Singer Lab Research Projects
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My research is ultimately aimed at understanding adaptation
in ecological traits, organization of ecological communities
and evolutionary diversification. Toward this end, I study
the ecological and evolutionary processes driving trophic
interactions between terrestrial plants, insect herbivores,
and carnivores that eat insect herbivores (tri-trophic
interactions). These organisms collectively account for over
50% of all 1.75 million described species on Earth. I am
interested in the significance of tri-trophic and other
species interactions for generating biodiversity (e.g.,
Singer and Stireman 2005, Janson et al. 2008), as well as
testing empirically particular evolutionary and ecological
hypotheses by using information at several levels of
biological organization. Consequently, this work is often
collaborative, involving the domains of community ecology,
evolutionary ecology, chemical ecology, behavioral science,
neurophysiology, biochemistry, systematics, conservation
biology and natural history.
   
   
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