Rosemary Gillespie (biologist)

For the Australian lawyer and activist, see Rosemary Gillespie.

Rosemary Gillespie is an American evolutionary biologist. She currently the president of the International Biogeography Society. In the past, she has served at the president of the American Arachnological Society and the treasurer of the International Society of Arachnology. She is also the currently associate director of the Essig Museum of Entomology and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She is known for her work on the evolution of communities on hotspot archipelagoes.[2][3]

Education

Gillespie received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1986.

References

  1. ↑ "People". Essig Museum of Entomology. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Gillespie, Rosemary (2004). "Community assembly through adaptive radiation in Hawaiian spiders.". Science. 303 (5656): 356–359. doi:10.1126/science.1091875.
  3. ↑ Gillespie, Rosemary; Roderick, George (2002). "Arthropods on islands: colonization, speciation, and conservation.". Annual Review of Entomology. 47 (1): 595–632. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145244.


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