John Gittleman Dean Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia Ecology Bldg. Athens, GA   30602-2202 (706) 542-2968 Fax: (706) 542-4819 e-mail: ecohead@uga.edu Graduate Faculty Lab Website

Education
Ph.D. - University of Sussex

Research Interests
Evolutionary biology
Biodiversity and conservation
Phylogenetics

Research Projects
My research is focused on large scale ecological and evolutionary questions related to the origins, patterns and causes of species biodiversity.  My work is synthetic, involving large databases, complete phylogenies ("supertrees"), and statistical comparative methods.  Most recent work has looked at problems of speciation, extinction and disease.

Professional Affiliations
The Zoological Society of London: Scientific Fellow, 1978-present
American Society of Mammalogists, 1979-present
Society for the Study of Evolution, 1981-present
Smithsonian Fellow, 1984-present
Society of Systematic Zoology, 1987-present
American Society of Naturalists, 1989-present
Paleontological Society, 1998-present

Selected Publications
Gittleman, J.K. and Gopper, M.E. (2005). Plight of predators - the importance of carnivores for understanding patterns of biodiversity and extinction risk. In: Ecology of Predator-Prey interactions (Eds. P. Barbosa & I. Castellanos), pp. 370-388. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jones, K.E., Sechrest, W. and Gittleman, J.L. (2005). Age and area revisited: identifying global patterns and implications for conservation. In: Phylogeny and Conservation (eds. A. Purvis, J.L. Gittleman & T.M. Brooks), pp. 141-165. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Purvis, A., Gittleman, J.L. and Brooks, T.M., Editors (2005). Phylogeny and Conservation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Isaac, N.J.B., Jones, K.E., Gittleman, J.L. and Purvis, A. (2005). Correlates of species richness in mammals: body size, life history, and ecology. American Naturalist 165: 6007-607.

Price, S.A., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P. and Gittleman, J.L. (2005). A complete Phylogeny of the whales, dolphins and even-toed hoofed mammals (Cetartiodactyla). Biological Reviews 80:445-473.

Gittleman, J.L. and Webster, A.J. (2004). The legacy of extinction risk: lessons from giant pandas and other threatened carnivores. In: Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation (eds. D. Lindburg & K. Barogona), pp. 236-245. University of California Press.

Gittleman, J.L., Jones, K.E. and Price, S.A. (2004). Supertrees: using complete phylogenies in comparative biology. In: Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining information to reveal the tree of life (ed. O.R.P. Bininda-Emonds), pp. 439-460. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Agapow, P.M., Bininda-Emonds , O.R.P., Crandall, K.A., Gittleman, J.L., Mace, G.M., Marshall, J.C., Purvis, A. (2004). The impact of species concept on biodiversity studies. Quarterly Review of Biology 79:161-179.

Cardillo, M., Purvis, A., Sechrest, W., Gittleman, J.L., Bielby, J., and Mace, G.M. (2004). Human population density and extinction risk in the world's carnivores. PloS Biology, 2:909-914.

Collen, B., Purvis, A. and Gittleman, J.L. (2004). Biological correlates of description date in carnivores and primates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 13:459:467.

Last updated: June 20, 2007

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