How do behavioural, ecological, and environmental processes shape the diversity of life on earth?

Welcome to the website of Catherine Sheard, an Interdisplinary Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.

​I am an evolutionary biologist who uses phylogenetic comparative methods to study the heterogeneity of diversity across space and time. My and my students' research spans the fields of macroecology, macroevolution, and behavioural ecology -- these days mostly in birds and mammals, but we also sometimes work with fish, spiders, and human languages.