Blanka Aguero, Data Manager
I work as data manager in Duke University Herbarium. I maintain collections and databases of bryophytes, oversee a databasing project of bryophytes, and assist in training undergraduate and graduate students in bryophyte diversity and herbarium management. I'm an active member of Duke Bryophyte Laboratory where I participate on research in bryophyte systematics. I am interested in bryophyte diversity of montane, alpine and wetland ecosystems. I have extensive field experience in temperate and boreal regions of Europe and North America, with focus mainly on mosses and liverworts. Born and raised in the Czech Republic.
Education:
PhD, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., 2004
Office Location: Biosci 371A, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 660 7308
Email Address: blanka@duke.edu
Web Page: http://sites.biology.duke.edu/bryology/blanka.html
Areas of Interest:
Systematics of bryophytes
Bryophyte diversity, ecology, and dynamics in montane and alpine ecosystems, wetlands, and hyperoceanic environments
Ecological bioinformatics
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- Imwattana, K; Aguero, B; Nieto-Lugilde, M; Duffy, A; Jaramillo-Chico, J; Hassel, K; Afonina, O; Lamkowski, P; Jonathan Shaw, A, Parallel patterns of genetic diversity and structure in circumboreal species of the Sphagnum capillifolium complex., American journal of botany, vol. 111 no. 5 (May, 2024), pp. e16348 [doi] [abs].
- Piatkowski, B; Weston, DJ; Aguero, B; Duffy, A; Imwattana, K; Healey, AL; Schmutz, J; Shaw, AJ, Divergent selection and climate adaptation fuel genomic differentiation between sister species of Sphagnum (peat moss)., Annals of botany, vol. 132 no. 3 (November, 2023), pp. 499-512 [doi] [abs].
- Imwattana, K; Aguero, B; Duffy, A; Shaw, AJ, Demographic history and gene flow in the peatmosses Sphagnum recurvum and Sphagnum flexuosum (Bryophyta: Sphagnaceae)., Ecology and evolution, vol. 12 no. 11 (November, 2022), pp. e9489 [doi] [abs].
- Carter, BE; Larraín, J; Manukjanová, A; Shaw, B; Shaw, AJ; Heinrichs, J; de Lange, P; Suleiman, M; Thouvenot, L; von Konrat, M, Species delimitation and biogeography of a southern hemisphere liverwort clade, Frullania subgenus Microfrullania (Frullaniaceae, Marchantiophyta)., Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, vol. 107 (February, 2017), pp. 16-26 [doi] [abs].
- Jonathan Shaw, A; Devos, N; Liu, Y; Cox, CJ; Goffinet, B; Flatberg, KI; Shaw, B, Organellar phylogenomics of an emerging model system: Sphagnum (peatmoss)., Annals of botany, vol. 118 no. 2 (August, 2016), pp. 185-196 [doi] [abs].