I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvey Lab at the University of Texas at El Paso, where my research seeks to understand the processes that govern speciation of birds in species-rich tropical environments. I use macroevolutionary and comparative phylogenetic methods to bridge the gap between fine- and broad-scale biogeographic patterns among species. I am also interested in applying phylogenetic and morphological data to poorly-known species complexes to study biogeography and inform systematics and taxonomy.

My work is entirely dependent on natural history museum collections, and I make extensive use of museum specimens for all of my research. I am also actively involved in field work related to museum collections, both in the desert Southwest and (pre-covid) in the western Amazon Basin. 

Previously, I worked in the Brumfield lab at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science. 

Contact

The University of Texas at El Paso
Department of Biological Sciences 
500 W University 
El Paso, Texas 79902
ojohns7 AT  lsu.edu
henicorhina AT gmail.com




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