Population, Community, & Ecosystem Ecology |
| Karen Abbott |
Theoretical population and community ecology, population dynamic modeling, spatial ecological theory. |
Dean Adams |
Evolution of phenotypic diversity; ecological and evolutionary morphology; species interactions and community organization; quantitative morphology (morphometrics).
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Anne Bronikowski |
Evolutionary genetics and population biology of life history variation in snakes. The evolution and persistence of senescence and the menopause in mammals. |
William Clark |
Population dynamics, landscape change, field ecology, statistics,
simulation modeling. |
William Crumpton |
Biological processes mediating carbon and mineral transformations in streams and wetlands. Particular interest in the fate and effects of non-point source pollutants in streams and wetlands. |
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. |
| Stanley Harpole |
Community Ecology, species diversity, biodiversity theory, mathematical and statistical modeling |
| Kirsten Hofmockel |
Microbial ecology with an emphasis on carbon and nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems; mechanisms driving decomposition and nutrient cycling responses to climate change; biogeochemistry, plant microbe interactions. |
Fred Janzen |
Molecular and experimental evolutionary ecology, primarily of reptiles; the relative impact of environmental and genetic factors on variation in, and evolution of, adaptive physiological traits like sex-determining mechanisms; the genetic structure of, and relationships among, individuals, populations, and higher taxa. |
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. |
John Pleasants |
Pollination ecology, effects of GMO plants on native insect species and potential for gene flow between GMO plants and native plants. |
James Raich |
Terrestrial ecosystems ecology; plant-soil-atmosphere carbon exchanges; nutrient cycling; human and environmental controls over ecosystem processes within forests, grasslands, and agricultural landscapes. |
| Kevin Roe |
Conservation genetics, systematics, and evolution of freshwater organisms. Relationships between unionid mussels and their host fishes. Patterns of coevolution using molecular tools. Role historical processes play in the distribution of species. |
Nicole Valenzuela |
Ecological and Evolutionary genomics of phenotypic plasticity, developmental
pathways, and sex determination. Life history evolution, conservation and
ecological genetics of turtles. |
Brian Wilsey |
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. |
