Blake Mathys
- 1 College Farm Rd.
- Plant Physiology Building
- Rutgers University
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901
- 732-932-3313
- mathys@eden.rutgers.edu
Research Interests:
My main areas of interest are the effects of insularity and adaptation to novel environments, especially as these relate to birds. The focus of my present research is the Great Kiskadee, a flycatcher (Family: Tyrannidae) that was introduced to Bermuda from Trinidad in 1957. I am comparing the source and introduced populations to determine if any rapid evolution has occurred in the intervening years. Such evolution could have allowed the kiskadee to attain the very high densities found in the introduced range. Further, I am interested in identifying the selective pressures that account for phenotypic divergence in insular populations.
