Christopher Dick Ph.D.

Expertise: Tropical forests, plant genetics

Academic Discipline: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Assistant Curator, Herbarium, Research Associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Phone: (734) 764-9408

E-mail: cwdick@umich.edu

· Has studied how oceans spread seeds of tropical forest tree species including the kapok tree.
· Research includes tropical ecology and evolution.
· Can discuss effects of habitat fragmentation on pollination and gene dispersal in Amazonian trees.
· Studies the history of tropical forests using DNA and fossil evidence.

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