Bryan McLean

Research in the McLean lab focuses on landscape- to continental-scale patterns of mammalian biodiversity and responses of these systems to past and present environmental change. Our work is data-driven and blends field-, laboratory-, and biodiversity informatics approaches to understand the captivating global diversity of mammals, how this diversity evolved and is maintained, and how it is responding to current global change. Current research foci include understanding the speciation process in major radiations of rodents; comparative landscape genetics of ground squirrels and their ectoparasites in cold-winter deserts on different continents (Great Basin Desert in North America, Gobi Desert in Asia); and use of Essential Biodiversity Variables to monitor phenotypic and reproductive responses of small mammals to climate and land use change.