Professor Toby Pennington
Professor Toby Pennington is David and Dorothy Kemper Professor in the Department of Biology at Washington University and Missouri Botanical Garden. Toby worked at RBGE as part of the Tropical Diversity Section from 1994 to 2025 and maintains strong collaborative links with the team as a Research Associate.
Toby's research aims to address one of the fundamental questions of tropical biology – how and when did the huge species numbers in the tropics arise? It is grounded in fundamental, descriptive taxonomic, inventory and phylogenetic research, which provides the foundation to address evolutionary and biogeographic questions of relevance to conservation in a changing world.
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