Scholars

Professor

Positions:

Professor and Curator, Ecology and Conservation Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

overview

I am an ornithologist/evolutionary biologist, and my lab focuses primarily on developing molecular phylogenies of avian lineages (and now a few mammals), and using these phylogenies to address questions posed by relationships within those lineages. To date, this research has focused on genera that are distributed on two or more continents (Anthus (pipits), Motacilla (wagtails), Cinclus (dippers) and Turdus (thrushes)). In addition to resolving species relationships and revising taxonomy, work in my lab has has dealt with reconstructing historical biogeography and examining the relative roles that dispersal and vicariance (e.g., mountain uplift) may have played in the development of modern day species distributions and assemblages.

education and training

Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Washington - (Seattle, Washington, United States)

selected publications

Academic Articles81

Voelker, G., Huntley, J. W., Bryja, J., Denys, C., umbera, R., Demos, T. C., ... Kerbis Peterhans, J. C. (2021). Molecular systematics and biogeographic history of the African climbing-mouse complex (Dendromus).. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 161, 107166-107166.
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.
Rakovi, M., Neto, J. M., Lopes, R. J., Koblik, E. A., Fadeev, I. V., Lohman, Y. V., ... Drovetski, S. V. (2019). Geographic patterns of mtDNA and Z-linked sequence variation in the Common Chiffchaff and the 'chiffchaff complex'.. PLoS ONE. 14(1), e0210268-e0210268.
Harvey, J. A., & Voelker, G. (2019). Host associations and climate influence avian haemosporidian distributions in Benin.. International Journal for Parasitology. 49(1), 27-36.
Drovetski, S. V., Fadeev, I. V., Rakovi, M., Lopes, R. J., Boano, G., Pavia, M., ... Voelker, G. (2018). A test of the European Pleistocene refugial paradigm, using a Western Palaearctic endemic bird species.. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 285(1889), 20181606-20181606.