Putting the ecological biogeography of vascular plants on the map

Barnabas Daru is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He received his PhD in Botany from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa in 2015. He then joined Harvard University in 2016 where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship on new uses of herbarium specimens for ecology and evolutionary biology. He joined the faculty as Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in 2018. He has pursued his interest in plant ecology and phylogenetic biology through a combination of research and teaching. His primary work focuses on elucidating the ecology and evolutionary determinants of floristic diversity, from local to global scales. He is Associate Editor at the journals eLife, American Journal of Botany, and he was also a subject Editor for the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B special theme issue: “Museum Specimens as a Roadmap for Understanding Biodiversity in the Anthropocene”.