Appointments and Education
2015 - present PERT Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
2014 - 2015 NSF IRFP Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
2012 - 2014 NSF IRFP and JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University
2005 - 2012 PhD Candidate, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
1999 - 2003 B. A., Biology, Harvard University
2014 - 2015 NSF IRFP Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
2012 - 2014 NSF IRFP and JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University
2005 - 2012 PhD Candidate, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
1999 - 2003 B. A., Biology, Harvard University
Research Interests
I’m an evolutionary ecologist broadly interested in the evolution of interactions, and the consequences of these interactions for the evolution and diversification of lineages and clades. Most of this work uses the spectacular co-radiation of leafflower plants (Phyllanthaceae: Phyllanthus s. l.) and leafflower moths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae: Epicephala, some of which are pollinators of their hosts and some of which are non-pollinating seed parasites) in the southern United States and on oceanic archipelagos in the South Pacific.
You can read more about my work here: davidhembry.wordpress.com.
You can read more about my work here: davidhembry.wordpress.com.
Publications
Newman EA, Winkler CA, Hembry DH. Submitted. Effects of anthropogenic wildfire activity in low elevation Pacific island vegetation communities in French Polynesia. Submitted 4 January 2016 to International Journal of Wildland Fire.
Hembry DH, Balukjian B. In press. Molecular phylogeography of the Society Islands (Tahiti; South Pacific) reveals departures from hotspot archipelago models. Journal of Biogeography.
Hembry DH. In press. Phyllantheae-Epicephala mutualistic interactions on oceanic islands in the Pacific. In: Kato M, Kawakita A (eds) Obligate Pollination Mutualism in Phyllanthaceae. Tokyo: Springer Japan.
Hembry DH. In press. Biogeography of interactions. In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Hembry DH, Yoder JB, Goodman KR. 2014. Coevolution and the diversification of life. The American Naturalist 184: 425-438
Raimundo RLG, Gibert JP, Hembry DH, Guimarães PR. 2014. Conflicting selection in the course of adaptive diversification: the interplay between mutualism and intraspecific competition. The American Naturalist 183: 363-375
Hembry DH. 2013. Herbarium specimens reveal putative insect extinction on the deforested island of Mangareva (Gambier Archipelago, French Polynesia). Pacific Science 67: 553-560
Katayama N, Hembry DH, Hojo MK, Suzuki N. 2013. Why do ants shift their foraging from extrafloral nectar to aphid honeydew? Ecological Research 28: 919-926
Hembry DH, Kawakita A, Gurr NE, Schmaedick MA, Baldwin BG, Gillespie RG. 2013. Non-congruent colonizations and diversification in a coevolving pollination mutualism on oceanic islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20130361
Hembry DH, Okamoto T, McCormack G, Gillespie RG. 2013. Phytophagous insect community assembly through niche conservatism on oceanic islands. Journal of Biogeography 40: 225-235
Hembry DH, Okamoto T, Gillespie RG. 2012. Repeated colonization of remote islands by specialized mutualists. Biology Letters 8: 258-261.
Hembry DH, Katayama N, Hojo MK, Ohgushi T. 2006. Herbivory damage does not indirectly influence the composition or excretion of aphid honeydew. Population Ecology 48: 245-25