Contact Information

Email: pheffer3@nd.edu

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Education

B.A. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy; University of Colorado Boulder, 2021

 

Research

 My research interests lie within changing environments and vector-borne disease. I am broadly interested in how environmental and anthropogenic factors interact with vector hosts to facilitate human diseases.

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Publication

Oldfather, M. F., Van Den Elzen, C. L., Heffernan, P. M., and Emery, N. C.. 2021. Dispersal evolution in temporally variable environments: implications for plant range dynamics. American Journal of Botany 108 (9): 1584-1594. 

https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1739