Current Research

1. Preparation of electronic guides and databases on the identification, biology, and zoogeography of the Shorefishes of the Neotropics (the Tropical Eastern Pacific and the Greater Caribbean).
2. Geographic variation in the demography of tropical reef fishes in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific.
3. The biogeography of the shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific – relations to other regions, faunal structure, geographic patterns of diversity.
4. The molecular historical biogeography of pantropical reef-fish genera, with particular reference to the origins and relationships of neotropical species.
5. Assessing the effects of the rise of the isthmus of Panama on the life history characteristics of reef-fishes.

Online Information System

Robertson DR, Allen GR. 2008. Shorefishes of the tropical Eastern Pacific online information system; stri.si.edu/sftep