Emma Steigerwald
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Email | emma_steigerwald@berkeley.edu
Web | coming soon!
Office | VLSB 4134
Curriculum vitae | PDF
Research area | Evolutionary Ecology / Conservation Biology / Global Change Biology
I am a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, co-advised by Dr. Rosemary Gillespie of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and Dr. Rasmus Nielsen of the Department of Integrative Biology.
Research Interests
Climate change represents a serious challenge to biodiversity: species must move, adapt, or die. While species capable of shifting their distributional range are generally viewed as responding successfully to climate change, these range shifts may moderate the ability of species to adapt to concurrent pressures. I am interested in whether climate change can exacerbate emerging infectious disease pressures on wild populations by affecting spatial patterns of genetic diversity. To explore this question, I work with Pleurodema marmoratum in the Cordillera Vilcanota of Southern Peru– the highest-living amphibians in the world!
Publications
Steigerwald, E. C., J. M. Igual, A. Payo‐Payo, & G. Tavecchia (2015) Effects of decreased anthropogenic food availability on an opportunistic gull: evidence for a size‐mediated response in breeding females. Ibis, 157(3):439-448.
Sorokin A and Steigerwald E.C. (2018) Evidence for parental care in Feihyla kajau(Anura: Rhacophoridae). Phyllomedusa. 17(1):127-130.
Sorokin, A. and E. C. Steigerwald (2017) Interspecific combat between Nymphargus aff. grandisonae and Espadarana prosoblepon. Herpetology Notes 10:283-285.
Sorokin, A. and E. C. Steigerwald (2017) Ameerega trivittata (Three-striped Poison Frog) Ectoparisitism. Herpetological Review, 48(2):407-408.