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Catherine Hulshof De La Peña

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  • Organization
    Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Website
    http://biodiversityresearchlab.com
  • Telephone
    (not set)
  • ORCID
    0000-0002-2200-8076
  • Reason
    Developing a new course
  • Interests
    1. Functional trait variation
    2. Plant community assembly
    3. Tropical ecology
  • Address
    address1: 1000 West Cary Street
    address2: Room 126
    city: Richmond
    postal: 23284
    region: VIRGINIA
    country: US
    latitude:
    longitude:
  • Biography

    I am a tropical ecologist. I study plants, insects, and their interactions across multiple spatio-temporal scales. In particular, I use tropical forests as a model system to understand how organisms respond to climate and climatic variability. Over short time scales, our lab studies physiological responses such as changes in insect body size and coloration patterns in response to environmental heterogeneity. Over evolutionary time scales, we study the role of climatic variability on habitat specialization.