Community ecology

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Biological invasions; theoretical applied ecology; life history theory.

Ecology and systematics of North American freshwater fishes.

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

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

Human ecology; sustainability studies; plant community ecology.

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