Population ecology

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

Avian ecology; human impacts on bird populations.

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

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

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

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

Population ecology and management of insects in agroecosystems.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Biological invasions; theoretical applied ecology; life history theory.

Ecology and systematics of North American freshwater fishes.

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