Scholars

Associate Professor

Positions:

Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Research Areas:

Evolution (Biology), Global environmental change, Biotic communities, Phylogeny, Anatomy, Comparative, Biogeography, Paleobiology, Non-formal education, Spatial ecology, Environmental, Ecology, Macroecology

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alawing@tamu.edu

1 979 845 5033

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ORCID

0000-0003-4041-6177

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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.

education and training

Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology & Behavior, and Geological Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)

selected publications

Academic Articles31

Rivera, J. A., Lawing, A. M., & Martins, E. P. (2020). Reconstructing historical shifts in suitable habitat of Sceloporus lineages using phylogenetic niche modelling. J Biogeogr. 47(10), 2117-2128.
Short, R. A., Struminger, R., Zarestky, J., Pippin, J., Wong, M., Vilen, L., & Lawing, A. M. (2020). Spatial inequalities leave micropolitan areas and Indigenous populations underserved by informal STEM learning institutions. Science advances. 6(41), eabb3819-eabb3819.
Meik, J. M., Lawing, A. M., & Watson, J. A. (2020). Use of scalation landmarks in geometric morphometrics of squamate reptiles: a comment on homology.. Zootaxa. 4816(3), zootaxa.4816.3.12-400.
Oksanen, O., Žliobaitė, I., Saarinen, J., Lawing, A. M., & Fortelius, M. (2019). A Humboldtian approach to life and climate of the geological past: Estimating palaeotemperature from dental traits of mammalian communities. J Biogeogr. 46(8), 1760-1776.
Hibbitts, T. J., Ryberg, W. A., Harvey, J. A., Voelker, G., Lawing, A. M., Adams, C. S., ... Laduc, T. J. (2019). Phylogenetic structure of Holbrookia lacerata (Cope 1880) (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae): one species or two?. Zootaxa. 4619(1), zootaxa.4619.1.6-154.

Chapters3

Vermillion, W. A., Polly, P. D., Head, J. J., Eronen, J. T., & Lawing, A. M. (2018). Ecometrics: A Trait-Based Approach to Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction. Croft, D. A., Su, D. F., & Simpson, S. W. (Eds.), Methods in Paleoecology. (pp. 373-394). Springer International Publishing.
Meik, J. M., & Lawing, A. M. (2017). Chapter Nine 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. (pp. 227-256). Elsevier.
Lawing, A. M., Head, J. J., & Polly, P. D. (2012). The Ecology of Morphology: The Ecometrics of Locomotion and Macroenvironment in North American Snakes. Louys, J. (Eds.), Paleontology in Ecology and Conservation. (pp. 117-146). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.