Jeanine Refsnider
Assistant Professor
Environmental Sciences
University of Toledo
Spain
Biography
Her research explores the mechanisms underlying species’ responses to rapid environmental change and their potential to affect species persistence. She studied phenotypic plasticity, adaptive genetic change, and geographic range shifts to understand organisms’ capacity for responding to novel conditions, and constraints limiting adjustment to rapid environmental change. Her research combines observational and experimental studies in the field and in the lab, and incorporates technological advances in field data collection and genomic techniques. The ultimate objective of her research is to improve the ability to predict the likely effects of climate change on organisms, and to develop conservation plans to minimize those effects.
Research Interest
Vertebrate zoology, Evolutionary ecology, Conservation biology
