Barraclough, Timothy

Job Title

Researcher and Senior Lecturer (RBG Kew & Imperial College – joint appointment)

Department

Jodrell

Section

Science Teams:

Joined Kew: 2003

Foreign Language(s): French

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc, Univ. Cambridge, 1993

DPhil, Univ. Oxford, 1996.

Editorial Board, Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Editorial Board, Systematic Biology

Editorial Board, Diversity and Distributions.

Role

Evolutionary biology, speciation, biodiversity, phylogenetics, statistics.

Evolutionary biology of biodiversity, patterns and causes of speciation, biological and environmental correlates of diversification, evolutionary ecology of asexual organisms (plants, fungi and animals). NERC-funded project on speciation in asexual bdelloid rotifers, supervising NERC-funded PhD students on mating system evolution and diversity in fungi and on mycorrhizal diversity in the Cape Floristic Region. Co-supervisor on EU project HOTSPOTS. Statistical methods for analysing combined population and phylogenetic data, applied to DNA barcoding data, including plant barcoding initiative. Theory of the evolutionary causes and consequences of species diversity.

Projects

Selected Recent Publications

  • Davies, T.J., Savolainen, V., Chase, M.W., Moat, J. & Barraclough, T.G. (2004). Environmental energy and evolutionary rates in flowering plants. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 271: 2195-2200.
  • Davies, T.J., Barraclough, T.G., Chase, M.W., Soltis, P.S., Soltis, D.E., & Savolainen, V. (2004). Darwin's abdominal mystery: a supertree of the angiosperms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101: 1904-1909.
  • Barraclough, T.G. & Vogler, A.P. (2002). Recent diversification rates in North American tiger beetles (genus: Cicindela). Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 1706-1716.
  • Soltis, P.S, Soltis, D.E., Savolainen, V., Crane, P.R. & Barraclough, T.G. (2002). Rate heterogeneity among lineages of tracheophytes: integration of molecular and fossil data and evidence for molecular living fossils. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 99: 4430-4435.
  • Barraclough, T.G. & Nee, S. (2001). Phylogenetics and speciation. TREE 16: 391-399.

Selected Earlier Publications

  • Barraclough, T.G., Harvey, P.H. & Nee, S. (1995). Sexual selection and taxonomic diversity in passerine birds. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 259: 211-215.
  • Barraclough, T.G., Harvey, P.H. & Nee, S. (1996). Rate of rbcL gene sequence evolution and species diversification in flowering plants (angiosperms). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 263: 589-591.
  • Barraclough, T.G., Vogler, A.P. & Harvey, P.H. (1998). Revealing the factors that promote speciation. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. 353: 241-249.
  • Barraclough, T.G., Hogan, J. & Vogler, A.P. (1999). Testing whether ecological factors promote cladogenesis in a group of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Proc. Roy. Soc. London. B. 266: 1061-1067.
  • Barraclough, T.G. & Vogler, A.P. (2000). Detecting the geographic pattern of speciation from species-level phylogenies. Am. Nat. 155: 419-434.

Scientific Research & Data

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