Our Research Focus

Our primary research focus is extinction and phylogeography of Caribbean bats.
We combine three types of data (climate, fossils, and genetics) to test hypotheses about population level changes across recent time scales. We are also broadly interested in evolutionary biology and study biogeography, the effects of climate change on mammals, population connectivity, and systematics and phylogenetics of mammals at regional and local scales.

​Check out a sample of our research in Angelo's ​Google Scholar or Research Gate site.

Here is a list of ongoing projects:

• Review and chronology of extinction of Caribbean bats
• Biogeography/systematics of bats in the genus Lasiurus
• Speciation in Neotropical carnivorous bats
• Biogeography of insular and continental phyllostomid bats
• Phylogeography of Caribbean nectarivorous bats

• Conservation & distribution modeling of Mongolian bats
• Conservation & distribution modeling of Kenyan bats
• Population connectivity modeling of Mesoamerican bats
• Dietary analyses of bats
• Population modeling of Vampire bats (Desmodus)
• Phylogenetics of Cuban Capromyid rodents

Our research has taken us to:

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We document biodiversity in places like this:

Generator Cave, Crooked Island, Bahamas

Cupeyal del Norte, Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt, Cuba

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