Sarah E. Diamond is an American ecologist and biologist who is currently the George B. Mayer Chair in Urban and Environmental Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Until 2013, she worked as a postdoctoral research assistant in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University.
[1] Much of Diamond's research focuses on predicting how ecological systems and biological organisms will respond to novel environments.
Species display varying abilities to respond to altered environments through both phenotypic plasticity and genetic evolution.
Urban populations of acorn ants have evolved both improved heat tolerance and increased phenotypic plasticity in response to temperature changes in their environment.