Conservation & Restoration Ecology |
Bonnie Bowen |
Evolutionary processes and genetic structure in natural population of animals, particularly behavioral ecology of birds, and conservation genetics of freshwater mussels. |
William Clark |
Population dynamics, landscape change, field ecology, statistics,
simulation modeling. |
Brent Danielson |
Effects of complex landscapes on the dynamics and structure of animal communities. |
Diane Debinski |
Current research includes studies of: 1)biogeographic analysis of species/habitat relationships using use of GIS and remotely sensed data, 2) restoration of prairie communities, 3) habitat fragmentation in agroecosystems, and 4) global climate change. |
John Downing |
Limnology, aquatic ecology, biogeochemistry, restoration ecology, landscape ecology and conservation of aquatic biodiversity. Watershed studies analyze the influence of the chemical and physical characteristics of aquatic ecosystems on phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthos and fish. Conservation studies emphasize freshwater mussels. |
Thomas Jurik |
The relationship of physiological and morphological characteristics of component species to the structure of prairie, wetland, forest, and agricultural plant communities; functional ecology; sustainable agriculture. |
Kirk Moloney |
Research interests include the spatial dynamics of ecological systems; relationships between ecological pattern and process; disturbance ecology; ecology of invasions; and the application of ecological knowledge in the process of restoration. |
John Nason |
Population and conservation genetics of plants and their associated insect herbivores and pollinators. Topics of particular interest include the reproductive dynamics, genetic structuring, and phylogeography of obligate pollination mutualisms (e.g., figs and fig wasps), as well as the reproductive and genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in animal dispersed plant species, especially tropical trees. |
Jeanne Serb |
Molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and evolution of developmental pathways; identification of genetic and environmental factors involved in complex trait evolution, with an emphasis on eyes and life history in molluscs. |
Nicole Valenzuela |
Ecological and Evolutionary genomics of phenotypic plasticity, developmental
pathways, and sex determination. Life history evolution, conservation and
ecological genetics of turtles. |
Arnold van der Valk |
Wetland ecology, especially vegetation dynamics of freshwater wetlands, natural re-vegetation of restored wetlands, creation and restoration of tree islands in the Everglades, and effectiveness of restored wetlands as sinks for nutrients in agricultural runoff. |
Brian Wilsey |
Interests are on the ecology and restoration of grasslands, especially the effects of disturbance and species diversity on community and ecosystem processes such as primary productivity, CO2 uptake and storage (an important component of global change), and herbivore consumption. |
