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Lawing, Michelle individual record
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
Evolution (Biology), Global environmental change, Biotic communities, Phylogeny, Anatomy, Comparative, Biogeography, Paleobiology, Non-formal education, Spatial ecology, Environmental, Ecology, Environment, Macroecology
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Research Areas:
Evolution (Biology), Global environmental change, Biotic communities, Phylogeny, Anatomy, Comparative, Biogeography, Paleobiology, Non-formal education, Spatial ecology, Environmental, Ecology, Environment, Macroecology
overview

Dr. Lawing is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology. She is primarily interested in using methods and models from modern ecology and evolutionary biology combined with evidence from the fossil record to inform our understanding of how species and communities respond to environmental change through time. Her work includes the investigation of geographic, evolutionary, and morphological responses of species and communities to environmental changes in the Late Pleistocene and throughout the Miocene to present. She is involved in developing species distribution models (SDM), geometric morphometric methods (GMM), and phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM). Before becoming an Assistant Professor, Dr. Lawing was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS). She earned a PhD double major in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior and in Geological Sciences from Indiana University, Bloomington.

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Academic Articles45
  • Lawing, A. M., McCoy, M., Reinke, B. A., Sarkar, S. K., Smith, F. A., & Wright, D. (2022). A Framework for Investigating Rules of Life by Establishing Zones of Influence. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61(6), 2095-2108.
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  • Siciliano‐Martina, L., Light, J. E., Riley, D. G., & Lawing, A. M. (2022). One of these wolves is not like the other: morphological effects and conservation implications of captivity in Mexican wolves. Animal Conservation. 25(1), 77-90.
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  • Struminger, R., Short, R. A., Zarestky, J., Vilen, L., & Lawing, A. M. (2021). Biological Field Stations Promote Science Literacy through Outreach. BioScience. 71(9), 953-963.
  • Light, J. E., Siciliano-Martina, L., Dohnalik, E. G., Vielleux, G., Hafner, D. J., Lawing, A. M., & Greenbaum, I. F. (2021). Corrigendum: Morphological differentiation of Peromyscus leucopus and P. maniculatus in East Texas. Therya. 12(3), 609-609.
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  • Short, R. A., & Lawing, A. M. (2021). Geography of artiodactyl locomotor morphology as an environmental predictor. Diversity and Distributions. 27(9), 1818-1831.
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  • (2018). Ecometrics: A Trait-Based Approach to Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction. Croft, D. A., Su, D. F., & Simpson, S. W. (Eds.), Methods in Paleoecology. 373-394. Springer International Publishing.
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  • Meik, J. M., & Lawing, A. M. (2017). Considerations and Pitfalls in the Spatial Analysis of Water Quality Data and Its Association With Hydraulic Fracturing. Schug, K. A., & Hildenbrand, Z. L. (Eds.), Environmental Issues Concerning Hydraulic Fracturing. 227-256. Elsevier.
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  • (2012). The Ecology of Morphology: The Ecometrics of Locomotion and Macroenvironment in North American Snakes. Louys, J. (Eds.), Paleontology in Ecology and Conservation. 117-146. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Conference Papers12
  • Jacisin, J. J., Fielder, C., Hibbitts, T. J., Ryberg, W. A., Walkup, D. K., Meik, J. M., & Lawing, A. M. (2021). Morphological variation of cranial elements in the western massasauga (Sistrurus tergeminus). INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 61, E410-E411.
  • West, J. V., & Lawing, A. M. (2020). Grab the Lizard by the Horns: Morphological Patterns in Horned Lizard Skulls. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 60, E443-E443.
  • Short, R. A., & Lawing, A. M. (2020). Locomotor morphology of ungulate communities as an environmental predictor. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 60, E214-E214.
  • Short, R. A., & Lawing, A. M. (2019). Community Limb Morphology of Artiodactyla as an Environmental Predictor. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY. 280, S217-S217.
  • (2018). The Evolution of Wing Colorfulness in a Butterfly Group. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 58, E186-E186.
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Email
alawing@tamu.edu
First Name
Michelle
Last Name
Lawing
mailing address
TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH; Ecosystem Science & Management; 2138 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2138
USA
Research Areas:
Evolution (Biology), Global environmental change, Biotic communities, Phylogeny, Anatomy, Comparative, Biogeography, Paleobiology, Non-formal education, Spatial ecology, Environmental, Ecology, Environment, Macroecology
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Research Areas:
Evolution (Biology), Global environmental change, Biotic communities, Phylogeny, Anatomy, Comparative, Biogeography, Paleobiology, Non-formal education, Spatial ecology, Environmental, Ecology, Environment, Macroecology