Catherine H. Graham

Catherine H. Graham
Born(1970-01-21)January 21, 1970
United States
EducationUniversity of Missouri at St. Louis (MS), (PhD)
Eckerd College (BA)
Scientific career
FieldsEcology, ornithology
InstitutionsStony Brook University

Catherine H. Graham is an American team leader and senior scientist working on the Biodiversity & Conservation Biology, and the Spatial Evolutionary Ecology research units at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.[1] From 2003 to 2017 she was an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the Stony Brook University, and since her appointment at the WSL in 2017 she has maintained adjunct status there.[1] She received both her M.S. degree (1995) and her Ph.D. (2000) from the University of Missouri at St. Louis, and did post-doctoral training at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley. She studies biogeography, conservation biology, and ecology.[2] Catherine H. Graham is most noted for her analysis of statistical models to describe species' distributions (Species Distribution Modeling). This work with Jane Elith is useful in determining changes in biodiversity resulting from human activities.[3] Her paper on niche conservatism with John J. Wiens is also highly cited. They focused on how species' retention of ancestral traits may limit geographic range expansion.[4] In many of her papers, she has sought to unite ecology and evolutionary biology to derive a better understanding of the processes driving species diversity patterns.[5][6] In particular, she and Paul Fine laid out a framework for interpreting community assembly processes from a phylogenetic approach to quantifying beta diversity.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Prof. Catherine Graham - Employees". www.wsl.ch. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  2. ^ "Stony Brook University Department of Ecology and Evolution Faculty" Archived 2015-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  3. ^ "New Hot Paper Comments", 2007, Retrieved 6 February 2015
  4. ^ "Niche Conservatism: Integrating Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology", 2005, Retrieved 6 February 2015
  5. ^ Graham, Catherine H.; Ron, Santiago R.; Santos, Juan C.; Schneider, Christopher J.; Moritz, Craig (2004). "Integrating Phylogenetics and Environmental Niche Models to Explore Speciation Mechanisms in Dendrobatid Frogs". Evolution. 58 (8): 1781–1793. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00461.x. ISSN 1558-5646. PMID 15446430.
  6. ^ Graham, Catherine H.; Storch, David; Machac, Antonin (2018). "Phylogenetic scale in ecology and evolution". Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27 (2): 175–187. doi:10.1111/geb.12686. ISSN 1466-8238.
  7. ^ Graham, Catherine H.; Fine, Paul V. A. (2008). "Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time". Ecology Letters. 11 (12): 1265–1277. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01256.x. ISSN 1461-0248. PMID 19046358.