Linscott Lab

We study how ecophysiological constraints shape biodiversity across evolutionary scales and use these insights to inform wildlife management. Our group uses both theoretical (i.e. macroevolutionary models of traits) and empirical (i.e. measures of phenotypic performance, genomics, spatial data) approaches to understand how life has evolved and is shaped by the environment. We primarily use freshwater and terrestrial molluscs as our main study systems but we also do work in other ecophysiological constrained systems (i.e. diatoms, plants, and more).