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Elin Claridge Postdoc, coordinator French Polynesia Terrestrial Arthropod Survey University of California, Berkeley Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station, Moorea, French Polynesia
e-mail: elinclaridge@berkeley.edu
Welcome to my webpage!
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Research Interests:
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Species formation and lineage diversification - using radiations on isolated oceanic islands as ideal study systems.
Pacific Biogeography - understanding the role of geological, biological and anthropogenic processes as factors that explain patterns of diversity in the Pacific.
Evolution of Insect-Plant interactions, the role of host-shifts and host specialization in diversification.
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French Polynesia Arthropod Survey
I am currently working in French Polynesia as a coordinator for the NSF Biotic Survey of Terrestrial Arthropods in French Polynesia. To find out more click here.
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Pacific weevils
My doctoral thesis focused on the systematics and diversification of entimine weevils in the Pacific genera Rhyncogonus and Elytrurus, working with George Roderick in the Evolab. To find out more click here.
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I am developing a project to work on a group of tiny flightless weevils in the genus Miocalles that occur on the remote island of Rapa, French Polynesia. The group is interesting because there are 67 species described from this 40km2 island! To find out more click here.
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As a masters student at the Natural History Museum, London, I worked on the molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of New Zealand tiger beetles, with Alfried Vogler. To find out more click here.
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