Dr. Anderson conducts interdisciplinary biogeographic research at various levels of biological organization. The overreaching theme is to characterize the spatial configuration of environmental suitability for species, and study its ecological, evolutionary and practical consequences.  To do so, he has been deeply involved in the development and use of methods for modeling species niches and distributions, as well as making software for doing so.  His taxonomic specialty is Neotropical mammals.

Links
https://www.amnh.org/research/staff-directory/robert-anderson-ph.d

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, 2001-2003
Ph.D. (honors) in Biology (Sytematics and Ecology), University of Kansas, 2001
B.A. (cum laude) in Biology, Kansas State University, 1994

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher; https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1904673

Finalist, Nielsen Challenge, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 2015 (Team member for software “Wallace: (beta v0.1): Harnessing Digital Biodiversity Data for Predictive Modeling, Fueled by R”

Blavatnik Science Scholar; http://blavatnikawards.org/

I conduct interdisciplinary biogeographic research at various levels of biological organization. As an overreaching research theme, my students and I aim to characterize the spatial configuration of environmental suitability for species, and study its ecological, evolutionary and practical consequences. This includes applications to conservation as well as the effects of climate change on biodiversity. To do so, I have been deeply involved in the development and use of methods for modeling species niches and distributions, as well as making software to do so. My lab has been funded by various grants from NSF and NASA.

See my profile on Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KSRr5EQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao