Agroecosystems

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.

Avian ecology; human impacts on bird populations.

Functional ecology of biogeochemically important microbial populations.

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.

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

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.

Population ecology and management of insects in agroecosystems.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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