Hayley Lanier, PhD
Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator of Mammalogy, Sam Noble Museum Of Natural History
My lab group studies the role of global change in shaping mammal biodiversity across a broad range of temporal and spatial scales.
By linking the breadth and depth of information that can be accessed through museum collections with field-collected and genomic data, our work provides unique insights into how and where biodiversity is distributed across the planet, including what forces have shaped its distribution in the past, and allows us to predict future responses to changing climates.
By translating primary biodiversity research into understanding conservation threats (e.g., climate change, habitat loss, zoonotic diseases),undergraduate educational, and outreach, our research is helps to lay the foundation for a more informed populace and ecologically sound future.
Markova, S, HC Lanier, MA Escalante, MdOR da CruzG, M Horníková, LJ Weider, JB Searle, P Kotlík. Local adaptation and future climate vulnerability in a wild rodent. Nature Communications 14:7840. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43383-z
Marske, KM=, HC Lanier=, CD Siler, AH Rowe, LR Stein. 2023. Integrating biogeography and behavioral ecology to rapidly address biodiversity loss. PNAS 120(15): e2110866120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.211086612 [=Authors contributed equally]
Theriot, MK, HC Lanier, LE Olson. 2023. Harnessing natural history collections to detect body[1]size change as a response to warming: a critique and review of best practices. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14:306–318. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13861
Allen, AG, ZP Roehrs, RS Seville, and HC Lanier. 2022. Competitive release during fire succession influences ecological turnover in a small mammal community. Ecology 103:e3733. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3733
Lanier, HC, R Massatti, Q He, LE Olson, and LL Knowles. 2015. Colonization from divergent ancestors: glaciation signatures on contemporary patterns of genomic variation in collared pikas. Molecular Ecology. 24:3688–3075 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13270
