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Phone
Number: 956-6176
E-mail: bholland@hawaii.edu |
| Oleander Hawk Moth, introduced to
the Hawaiian Islands, native to the old world: Asia, Africa,
Southern Europe. . |
| Oahu Tree snails (Achatinella
mustelina), single
island endemic, endangered species, and one of perhaps 10 extant
tree snail species on this island. |
| Female Jackson's chameleon, Waiamea,
Big Island, naturalized on the main Hawaiian Islands, introduced
from Kenya in the 1970's. |
| Ko'olau summit trail, endemic 'ie'ie
(Freycinetia arborea) in the foreground. |
| Pacific Island land snail biodiversity. |
| Pacific Island land snail biodiversity. |
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Assistant
Researcher
Graduate Faculty in Ecology
Evolution and Conservation Biology
Associate Graduate Faculty in the Department of
Zoology
Mailing address: Center for Conservation
Research & Training
Pacific
Biosciences Research Center
3050 Maile Way, Gilmore 408
Honolulu, HI 96822
Lab
Address: Endangered Captive Tree Snail Breeding and
Conservation Genetics Lab
336
Henke Hall, 1800
East-West Road
Honolulu,
HI 96822
Areas
of research: Island phylogeography, molecular systematics,
genetics of invasive species, conservation biology.
Education
Postdoct
Conservation Genetics, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, 1999-2003
PhD Biological Oceanography, Texas A&M University,
1997
MS Biological Oceanography, Texas
A&M University, 1991
BA General Biology, University of California,
San Diego 1986
My MS research involved evaluation of
the degree of geographic isolation and SCUBA-based photometric
monitoring of two outer continental shelf coral reefs in the
Gulf of Mexico, as part of a long-term project which eventually
led to congressional designation of these unique, high biodiversity
assemblages as the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
My doctoral research used molecular and cytotaxonomic approaches
to understand the rapid invasion of the Texas Gulf coast by the
edible brown mussel, Perna
perna.
A few days after crossing the stage to receive my doctoral diploma,
I found myself on a 747 bound for Southeast Asia, where I had accepted
a job as a Visiting Professor at a newly founded public university
in NE Thailand. While in Thailand, I helped establish the curriculum
for the MS program in Genetics and Biology, set up a Conservation
Genetics Laboratory with World Bank funding, taught Population
Genetics, General Genetics and Molecular Techniques to upper division
undergraduates, and coordinated and participated in a number of
field research projects on species such as elephants, gaur, and
Malasian water monitors.
I returned to the US in 1999, to begin a postdoc with Mike Hadfield
at the Kewalo Marine Lab, studying the systematics and population
structure in the highly endangered Hawaiian tree snails.
In 2003 I moved to UH Manoa to work with Rob Cowie on an NSF funded
project studying the colonization patterns and systematics of Pacific
Island succieneid land snails.
Since joining the Rubinoff
Lab in early 2008, Ifve been enjoying working with Dan
and his research group on a number of interesting projects,
including analysis and interpretation of several evolutionary
puzzles, large multilocus molecular datasets and systematics
projects, rearing sphingid moths and aquatic beetles,
and working with students on their phylogenetics projects.
My research focus continues to seek to understanding
the various roles of differential dispersal ability, population structure,
local adaptation and reproductive isolation in diversification of
insular species, as well as identification of systematic identity,
geographic sources and evaluation of population demographics of invasive
species in order to better understand and ultimately prevent these
often irreversible, environmentally devastating events.
Continuing collaborations with other researchers include molecular
ecology, biogeography and systematics of:
- succineid snails (Rob Cowie,
Marta deMaintenon, Gary Barker)
- achatinelline tree snails (Mike
Hadfield)
- Hawaiian opihi (Chris Bird, Rob
Toonen, Brian Bowen, Jonathan Gardner)
- Baja bulimulid snails (Rob Cowie,
Christine Parent, Carl Christensen)
- Jacksonfs chameleons (Martin
Whiting, J. Scott Keogh)
- box jellyfish (Jerry Crow, Mike
Dawson, Angel Yanagihara)
- extinct Hawaiian lineages using
ancient DNA (Rob Cowie, Yvonne Chan)
| (In prep) Holland, B.S.& E. A. Kay. Biogeography,
In: The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society.
(Rapaport, M. ed). Second edition, University
of Hawaii Press. Invited chapter. |
(In prep) Christensen C.C. , Holland,
B.S.,
K.A. Hayes, R.H.Cowie. Biocontrol in Hawaii:
Ecological and regulatory perspectives. Pacific
Science. |
(In review) Holland,
B.S., C.C. Christensen,
K.A. Hayes, R.H.Cowie. Biocontrol in Hawaii:
A response to Messing. Proceedings of the Hawaiian
Entomological Society. |
(In press) Holland,
B.S. Island flora and
fauna: Snails. In: The Encyclopedia of Islands.
(R. Gillespie & D.A. Clague, eds), Science
Publishing Group, University of California
Press. Invited chapter. |
(In press) Holland, B.S. & R.H. Cowie.
Land snail models in biogeography: A tale of
two snails. American Malacological Bulletin.
Invited review. |
Cowie, R.H. & B.S.
Holland. 2008. Molecular
biogeography and diversification of the endemic
terrestrial fauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London B
363(1508): 3363-3376. Invited review. |
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Bird, C.E., Holland, B.S.,
Bowen, B.W. & Toonen, R.J. 2007. Contrasting
phylogeography in three endemic Hawaiian limpets
(Cellana spp.)with
similar life histories. Molecular Ecology,
16(15): 3173-3187.
Holland,
B.S. & R.H. Cowie. 2007. A
geographic mosaic of passive dispersal: population
structure in the endemic Hawaiian amber snail Succinea
caduca (Mighels 1845). Molecular
Ecology, 16(12): 2422-2435. |
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Holland, B.S. & M.G.
Hadfield. 2007. Molecular systematics of the endangered
Oeahu tree snail Achatinella mustelina (Mighels
1845): Synonymization of subspecies and estimation
of gene flow between chiral morphs. Pacific Science, 61(1):
53-66.
Holland, B.S. & R.H.
Cowie. 2006. New island records of the endemic Hawaiian
land snail Succinea caduca (Mighels 1845).
Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 88: 58-60.
Cowie, R.H.
and B.S.
Holland. 2006. Dispersal and vicariance
in Hawaii: submarine slumping does not create deep
inter-island channels. Journal
of Biogeography. 33(12):2155-2156.
Cowie, R.H. and B.S. Holland.
2006. Dispersal is fundamental to evolution on oceanic
islands. Journal of Biogeography 33(2):
193-198. Guest Editorial.
Rubinoff, D. and B.S. Holland.
2005. Between the two extremes: Mitochondrial DNA
is neither the panacea nor the nemesis of phylogenetic
and taxonomic inference. Systematic Biology 54(6):
92-961.
Holland, B.S., M.N. Dawson,
G.L. Crow and D.K. Hofmann. 2004. Global phylogeography
of Cassiopea (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae): Molecular
evidence for cryptic species and multiple invasions
of the Hawaiian Islands. Marine
Biology. 145: 1119-1128.
Holland, B.S. and M.G. Hadfield.
2004. Origin and diversification of the endemic Hawaiian
tree snails (Achatinellinae: Achatinellidae) based
on molecular evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution. 32(2): 588-600.
Hadfield, M.G., B.S. Holland and
K. Olival. 2004. Contributions of Ex Situ Propagation
and Molecular Genetics to the Conservation of Hawaiian
Tree Snails. In: Experimental Approaches to Conservation
Biology. (M.Gordon and S.Bartol, eds). University
of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. Pages
16-34.
Rundell, R.J., B.S.
Holland,
and R.H. Cowie. 2004.
Molecular phylogeny
and biogeography of endemic Hawaiian
succineid land snails (Pulmonata:
Gastropoda). Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 31:
246-255.
Holland, B.S. and M.G. Hadfield. 2002.
Islands within an island: phylogeography and conservation
genetics of the endangered Hawaiian tree snail Achatinella
mustelina. Molecular Ecology.
11(3): 365-376.
Holland, B.S. 2001. Invasion without
a bottleneck: microsatellite variation in natural and
invasive populations of the brown mussel, Perna perna
(L). Marine Biotechnology 3(5):
407-415.
Apte, S., B.S. Holland, L.S. Godwin,
and J.P.A. Gardner. 2000. Jumping ship: a stepping
stone event mediating transfer of a non- indigenous
species via a potentially unsuitable environment. Biological
Invasions 2: 75-79.
Holland, B.S. 2000. Genetics
of Marine Bioinvasions. In: Marine Genetics.
(A. Sole-Cava, C. Russo and J. Thorpe), Developments
in Hydrobiologia, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Netherlands. Pages 63-71.
Holland, B.S. 2000. Genetics of marine
bioinvasions. Hydrobiologia 420: 63-71.
Holland, B.S., D.S. Gallagher, D.W.
Hicks, and S.K. Davis. 1999. Cytotaxonomic verification
of a non-indigenous marine mussel in the Gulf of Mexico. The
Veliger 42(3): 280-282.
Gittings, S.R., G.S. Boland, K.J.P. Deslarzes, C. Combs, B.S.
Holland, and T.J. Bright. 1992. Mass spawning
and reproductive viability of reef corals at the
East Flower Garden Bank, northwest Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin
of Marine Science 51(3): 420-428.
Lockwood, S.F., B.S. Holland, J.W.
Bickham, B.J. Hanks, and J.J. Bull. 1992. Intraspecific
genome size variation in a turtle (Trachemys scripta)
exhibiting temperature-dependent sex determination. Canadian Journal
of Zoology 69:
2306-2310.
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