Elsie H. Shogren, PhD

I am fascinated by the process of speciation and how ecological, sexual, and/or genetic incompatibilities interact with the environment to promote or limit gene flow between taxa. Studies in avian systems profoundly shaped our understanding of how behavior, ecology, and biogeography influence speciation and biodiversity before the era of genomic analyses. Building on that tradition, I integrate field data on the behavioral ecology of birds with genome sequence data to understand how the environment mediates reproductive isolation or adaptive introgression between species.