Ecology faculty and research

Community, historical and physiological ecology of tree species; global change biology.

Soil ecology: biological aspects of soil quality in sustainable and organic agriculture systems, soil arthropod community ecology, ecology of entomopathogenic nematodes and fungi; Ecosystem ecology.

The regulation of biological clocks in birds at the systems level.

Molecular ecology and evolution of reef invertebrates.

Behavioral ecology; human ecology; rainforest subsistence systems; primitive warfare.

Population dynamics, spatial ecology, ecology of infectious disease, computational biology.

Behavioral ecology, reintroductions and conservation, animal cognition and behavior.

Avian ecology; human impacts on bird populations.

Ecology, management, and restoration of wetland and riparian ecosystems.

Functional ecology of biogeochemically important microbial populations.

Seed dispersal processes; bird behavior; plant invasions; tropical ecology; parasitic plants

Ecosystem ecology; effects of eutrophication on the biogeochemistry of lakes, streams, and wetlands; effects of food web alterations on microbial biodiversity and productivity.

Ecosystem ecology: wetlands, hydrology, restoration, seed banks, plant communities, historical ecology.

Management opportunities for herbaceous perennial and annual species; the effect of cover crops on weed emergence and herbicide efficacy.

Using geographic information systems, terrain analysis, remote sensing and global positioning for environmental assessment and modeling, soil mapping, and land use planning; soil hydrology; water quality.

Ecology. Chemical ecology. Tritrophic interactions. Biological control. Plant signaling. Plant-insect-interactions. Plant defenses.

Air pollution effects on plants and terrestrial ecosystems.

Genomics, bioinformatics, and molecular evolution. Origin and diversification of flowers & developmental pathways. Comparative genomics of plants, organelles, & plant gene families. Genomics and evolution of parasitic plants.

Wildlife ecology, estimation of population parameters, and harvest management of game populations.

Soil formation and biogeochemistry due to land use and ecosystem change; soil and water degradation, and the remediation of soil physical and chemical properties in urban environments.

Plant physiological ecology, ecosystem ecology, climate change biology, root and soil ecology.

Fisheries ecology; fish population dynamics; river ecology and management; watersheds; modeling; and policy and management.

Ecosystem management on mixed ownerships; forest management; private forest owner issues and education; sustainable forestry; human dimensions of natural resources.

Physiological and community ecology of deep sea hydrothermal vent and cold seep fauna.

Population ecology and management of insects in agroecosystems.

Soil seed bank ecology. Plant-soil interactions. Agroecosystem development and management.

Tropical and temperate bat ecology; tropical animal ecology; mammal ecology.

Ecology of fungi and small mammals; fungal-animal interactions.

Evolutionary ecology. Molecular evolution and systematics of vertebrates; biogeography; connections between biological evolution and Earth history.

Microbial food webs; the ecology of mixotrophic protozoans.

Population dynamics of infectious diseases in wildlife and the dynamics of parasite community structure.

Aerobiology, movement and dispersal of organisms, meteorology, field measurement.

Physiological ecology; community ecology; agroecology, grazing systems and cropping systems ecology.

Ecosystem ecology; global change biology; biogeochemistry of nitrogen and carbon cycling in managed and unmanaged ecosystems.

Vegetation dynamics, dendrochronology, disturbance history, paleoclimatology, environmental change.

Biodiversity science; biodiversity assessment and monitoring; ecology of community assemblages; ecology of guilds; community ecology and coevolution of parasitic arthropods and vertebrates; conservation of transboundary ecosystems; forensic entomology.

Plant ecology; ecology of mycorrhizal symbioses; agricultural ecology; community ecology of fungi.

Population and community ecology: how the nature of interactions between species can shift over time, in response to changes in the environment and corresponding selection pressures.

Hydropedology; environmental soil and water sciences; scaling; watershed water quality; geospatial technologies; environmental modeling, artificial intelligence.

Plant ecophysiology and agroecology; plant adaptation to nutrient stress; biogeochemistry of the Eastern deciduous forest; sustainable international development.

Microbial ecology; microbial role in weathering and soil processes; controls on microbial diversity; ecological interactions in microbially dominated systems (ancient earth analogs).

The study of biodiversity in threatened ecosystems; the effects of human-modified landscapes on wildlife; behavioral ecology of squirrels.

Physiological ecology, functional genomics, evolutionary ecology, and behavior.

The role of plant volatiles in mediating ecological and evolutionary interactions among plants, insects, and pathogens.

Assessing how climatic, physiographic and soil variation affects cropping systems performance.

Forest biometrics; remote sensing; quantitative landscape ecology; spatial analysis; geographic information systems; multivariate statistics; artificial intelligence; natural resource sustainability; international forestry.

Integrated pest management; impact of pesticides on non-target species; sampling strategies.

Behavioral ecology and acoustic communication of marine mammals.

Statistical ecology, environmental statistics, and quantitative risk analysis.

Climate change and its effects on life history traits and population and community dynamics.

Evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions, particularly virulence, infectiousness, vaccine-driven evolution, and drug and insecticide resistance.

Ecology and pest management of arthropods affecting vineyards; design and development of computer-based systems that capture, formalize, and represent qualitative and quantitative knowledge associated with managed and natural systems.

Wetland biogeochemistry. Riparian wetlands. Constructed wetlands for waste treatment. Pollutant impacts on aquatic systems.

Molecular ecology; Structure, demographics and evolution of large mammal populations; Ancient DNA.

Biological invasions; theoretical applied ecology; life history theory.

Landscape and ecosystem ecology. Disturbance ecology & disturbance synergies. Ecosystem simulation models. Climate change and ecosystem carbon storage. Fire and soil nitrogen. Microbial community composition and function. Spatial statistics.

Ecology and systematics of North American freshwater fishes.

The ecology, genecology, and physiological ecology of forest regeneration following disturbance.

Ecology and evolution of plant reproduction. The role of inbreeding and genetic variation on the establishment and transmission of plant diseases.

Ecological restoration and design; regional ecosystems planning; brownfields and degraded landscapes.

Vegetation dynamics; fire and climate variation on community development; environmental conservation.

Plant-insect interactions, tritrophic interactions, chemical ecology, plant defenses, population and community ecology, agroecosystems, natural-enemy ecology, ecology of gall-inducing insects

Insect chemical ecology; plant-insect interactions; insect attractants.

Human ecology; sustainability studies; plant community ecology.

Impacts of human disturbance on wetlands; plant community dynamics; theoretical applied ecology; landscape analysis.

Paleobotany; paleoecology; extinction and recovery of past ecosystems; responses of organisms to climate change.

Ecology, management and regeneration of forest ecosystems; community ecology.