Daniel R Brooks

Professor Emeritus

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 
Education: MS, PhD
Email dan.brooks@utoronto.ca  

Research Areas: Biodiversity & Systematics Conservation Biology Theoretical & Computational Biology
Study Organisms: Animals

Research:

Biodiversity efforts integrate conservation of the world's biodiversity with socio-economic development through sustainable management of biodiversity resources. Prof. Brooks is coordinator of the Inventory of Eukaryotic Parasites of Vertebrates in the Area de Conservaci?n Guanacaste, Costa Rica, a World Heritage Site, and is a member of the Science Advisory board of the All-Species Foundation. Systematics studies begin with phylogenetic analysis of parasitic helminths, using both morphological and molecular data, for use as models of comparative evolutionary studies. Prof. Brooks and Prof. McLennan, also of the Department of Zoology, have developed a research program in phylogenetic comparative biology utilizing phylogenetic information to examine the historical context of speciation, adaptation and adaptive radiations, coevolution, historical biogeography, and community evolution. Prof. Brooks also investigates conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory, including issues of complexity theory, information theory, hierarchy theory, and self-organization