People who work in Ecology

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.

Physiological ecology, plant functional roles in communities, evolutionary ecology, comparative biology of belowground plant form and function, root and fungal co-evolution.

Landscape diversity in agricultural areas; Taxonomic and functional diversity and grassland management; Multivariate and spatial analysis for ecological data.

Root Ecology - specifically, the ecology of root lifespan in North American temperate trees. [Advisor: Eissenstat]

[Advisor:  David Mortensen]

Behavioral ecology, insect physiology, and plant-insect interactions. [Advisor: Mescher]

[Advisor: Tracy Langkilde]

[Advisor: Bjornstad / Grenfell]

Assessing biodiversity within agricultural landscapes and managing non-crop areas with native flowering species to increase the activity of beneficial insects within agricultural fields. [Advisor: Mortensen]

Controls and constraints on root turnover rate, mostly how elevated nitrogen level affects root longevity. [Advisor: Eissenstat]

Weed ecology and functions of biodiversity in agricultural systems. [Advisor: Mortensen]

Community structure and functioning of ectomycorrhizal fungi. [Advisor: Roger Koide]

Landscape management and restoration of freshwater wetland resources. [Advisor: Brooks]

Fine root decomposition, belowground carbon and nutrient cycling of temperate forest ecosystems, soil dynamics, plant soil interaction [Advisor: Eissenstat]

The ecology of migratory birds, particularly raptors and forest songbirds. I have focused recently on the stopover ecology of migrating raptors, particularly their behavior and use of habitats. [Advisor: Brittingham]

Weed eco-physiology. How environmental conditions during seed maturation affect resource allocation and seed persistence in the soil. [Advisor: Gallagher]

Mechanisms that cause heterogeneities in disease transmission. These heterogeneities appear to result in key hosts that harbor a majority of parasites and account for a majority of transmission. [Advisor: Hudson]

Demographic response of grassland birds to management practices and habitat manipulation. [Advisor: Deifenbach]

Behavioral ecology and bioacoustics of marine mammals. [Advisor: Parks]

The role of Native American land-use legacies and indicator species in assessing potential archaeological sensitivity and integrity of sites. [Advisor: Abrams]

[Advisor:  Eric Post]

Plant defense research for creating eco-friendly pest management strategies. [Advisor: Tumlinson]

[Advisor: Cole]

Chemosynthetic communities at cold seeps (>1000 m) and deep coral sites (300-700m) in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine community ecology, especially how communities change over time and the environmental factors that affect this change. [Advisor: Fisher]

My research aims to (a) quantitatively describe how environmental factors affect hantavirus dynamics in its reservoir host in Montana; and (b) to create an ecological model which could predict epizootics. [Advisor: Bjornstad/Hudson]

Plant root ecology, physiology, and global change biology. [Advisor: Eissenstat]

Avian ecology and conservation. My research focuses identifying potential conflict between eastern Golden Eagles and wind power development throughout the annual cycle. [Advisor: Brooks]

Aquatic and wetland ecology. My research focuses on trying to understand how the spatial variation in plant communities, microtopography, and soil properties impact microbial community composition and processes. [Advisor: Wardrop]

Global climate change, disturbance and biogeochemical cycling in forests, soil organic matter dynamics. [Advisor: Eissenstat]

Invasive plant species, particularly Japanese stiltgrass, an annual grass invasive in forested ecosystems throughout the eastern US. How environmental factors influence its population growth and efficacy of management practices. [Advisor: Mortensen]

[Advisors: Alan Taylor/Roger Koide]

Molecular Ecology and Conservation Biology. [Advisor: Baums]

[Advisor: Denice Wardrop]

The potential effects of climate change on early-successional and understory forest vegetation and especially invasive species. [Advisor: M Kaye]

[Advisor: Stauffer]

[Advisor: Katriona Shea]

Ecology of freshwater systems including: fish and macroinvertebrate taxonomy; bioassessment; water quality; stream restoration processes. [Advisor: Carline]

Diatoms in streams as indicator species for environmental variables. [Advisor: Carrick]

Integrating ecology with economics to evaluate public land management within forested ecosystems. [Advisor: Steiner]

[Advisor: Paul Bartell]

[Advisor: Tracy Langkilde]

[Advisor: Katriona Shea]

[Advisor:  Susan Parks]

[Advisor: Victoria Braithwaite]

Forest ecosystems and climate change. Currently, I am working on a project that utilizes ecophysiology and seedling allometry to examine competition and potential for species migration under predicted climate changes in PA forests. [Advisor: M. Kaye]

The use of geospatial technologies including GPS, GIS and 3d visualization to analyze large scale landscape patterns. Historic development patterns within a regulatory context and subsequent assessment of ecological impacts over time. [Advisor: Day]

Hunting sustainability in the Amazon, how the impacts of hunting affect primates demographics, and how these changes in turn affect primate population dynamics and population growth. [Advisor: Beckerman]

Evolutionary roles of root plasticity and root-root interactions such as competition and facilitation with an emphasis on agroecology. Functional diversity of root system architecture and its effect on ecosystem functioning. [Advisor: Lynch]

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