Lee Hsiang Liow
Contact Address
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES)
Department of Biology
University of Oslo
P.O. Box 1066 Blindern
N-0316 Oslo
Norway
Phone: 22 85 50 78
Background
I am a paleobiologist trained at the University of Chicago. However, my early education at the University of Singapore and then later at Uppsala University and the Swedish Agricultural University was focused on tropical ecology and conservation biology.
Research Interests
I am mainly interested in patterns and processes observable and inferable from the fossil record. Themes that I am currently working on include
(i) what regulates global population growth or decline on geologic time scales?
(ii) what signatures would fossil organisms/populations leave in the fossil record if other fossil organisms/populations had strongly influenced their ecological or evolutionary trajectories?
(iii) what does stasis or change at different scales look like and what do they say about the underlying processes of long-term evolution?
Recent Articles
Liow, L. H, Skaug, H. J., Ergon, T. & Schweder, T. Paleobiology (accepted Oct 2009). Environmental volatility and the global occupancy trajectory of microfossils.
Colles, A., Liow, L. H. and Prinzing, A. 2009. Are specialists at risk under environmental change? Neoecological, paleoecological and phylogenetic approaches. Ecology Letters 12: 849-864.
Liow, L. H., M. Fortelius, K. Lintulaasko, H. Mannila, and N. C. Stenseth. 2009. Lower extinction risk in Sleep-or-Hide Mammals. American Naturalist 173(2):264
Liow, L. H., M. Fortelius, E. Bingham, K. Lintulaasko, H. Mannila, L. Flynn, and N. C. Stenseth. 2008. Reply to Vilar et al.: Sleep or hide, better for survival anytime. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(35):E57.
Liow, L. H., M. Fortelius, E. Bingham, K. Lintulaakso, H. Mannila, L. Flynn, and N. C. Stenseth. 2008. Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(16):6097-6102.
Liow, L. H., and N. C. Stenseth. 2007. The rise and fall of species: implications for macroevolutionary and macroecological studies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 274:2745–2752.
Links
Lee Hsiang's webpage (more publications and links)
I usually hang out with biologists on the uio campus but I also work one day a week at the Geological Section of the Natural History Museum at Tøyen
