Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
Special Collections Building
3207 Hull Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611
352-273-1948
paulay@flmnh.ufl.edu
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Collections & Programs
Other Affiliations
Adjunct Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1988
Research Interests
Biogeography, evolution, systematics, and natural history of invertebrates. Marine biodiversity and biogeography, especially of tropics, coral reefs, and the North Pacific. Dynamics of species diversity and distributions; marine speciation. Large-scale marine biodiversity surveys. Island biology; marine and terrestrial biota of Pacific islands.
Publications
Recent Research News
A natural history of the Red Sea and the uncertain future of its corals
Early in May 2023, a small team of marine biologists arrived in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. They’d flown…
Scientists discover hidden crab diversity among coral reefs
The Indo-West Pacific is the largest, most biodiverse marine ecosystem on Earth, and many of the species it supports have…
Good parenting evolved multiple times in moss animals
The spindly filaments and coral-like colonies of the ancient phylum of marine animals known as bryozoans likely aren’t the first…