Lindsey Leighton

Research Statement

Our planet is faced with a biodiversity crisis of shocking proportions. Despite the urgency of addressing this crisis, the study of biodiversity is still in its early stages – we do not fully understand the basic factors and processes influencing biodiversity. The focus of my research is trying to understand those underlying factors and processes through geologic time.

Research Interests

Paleoecology of marine invertebrates, especially the Paleozoic benthos, with emphases on:

• Functional Morphology;

• Biotic Interactions, including Competition and Predation;

• Animal-Substrate Interactions.

• Survivorship through Mass Extinctions

• Morphological Analysis

• Biogeography

• Taphonomy

• Phylogenetics

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