Eric Sanford

Experimental Biogeography and Climate Change Impacts.  The Sanford Lab is interested in how marine populations and communities vary in response to both natural oceanographic variation and anthropogenic climate change.  Our research seeks to synthesize the ecological, evolutionary, physiological, and oceanographic processes that shape marine populations: both over large distances along coastlines, and in an era of accelerating climate change.  We seek mechanistic understanding of these processes through coordinated field and laboratory experiments centered at Bodega Marine Laboratory.  Much of our work focuses on marine intertidal communities, where organisms and their interactions are diverse and easily studied.  Ongoing research projects lie primarily in three areas:

• Local adaptation in marine species
• The regulation of species’ geographic range limits
• The influence of climate change on populations and communities

Publications:

http://www-bml.ucdavis.edu/facresearch/sanford_pubs.html