Barnabas Daru

Barnabas Daru is a Lecturer in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. His research focuses on biogeography and macroecology, specifically the ecology and biogeography of plants across ecological scales. Daru studied botany at the University of Johannesburg and completed his postdoctoral research at Harvard University in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. His current work explores the role of phylogeny in understanding species distribution, community conservation, and changing distributions in the Anthropocene. He is affiliated with the Woods Institute for the Environment and is a Center Fellow by courtesy.

Barnabas Daru is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University, specializing in Ecology, Biogeography, Biodiversity, and Conservation. His research explores the impacts of human activity on biodiversity, focusing on sampling biases in biological collections, the role of fire in savanna ecosystems, and the conservation of evolutionary diversity. He investigates phylogenetic regionalization, the homogenization of plant communities, and the threats to mangrove and cycad species. His work emphasizes the integration of biogeography, evolutionary data, and conservation strategies to address biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene. Daru also develops tools like the phyloregion R package to advance macroecological and biogeographic research.