Professor GAITÁN-ESPITIA, Juan Diego (JD)
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU
BSc (Colombia); MSc (Spain); PhD (Chile)
Teaching Areas
- Ecology
- Evolution
- Phylogenetics
- Molecular Ecology
- Quantitative genetics
- Biostatistics
- Physiology
Research Interests
- Phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation
- Comparative environmental physiology
- Adaptive responses to climate change
- Functional Genomics: linking genotype to phenotype
- Blue carbon and seagrass ecology
Current Research
- Eco-evolutionary dynamics in tropical marine ectotherms
- Seagrass ecology and restoration
- Seascape genetics in the Indo-Pacific
- Plasticity and local adaptation in highly fluctuating environments
Publications and News
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