Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology

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Theoretical population and community ecology, population dynamic modeling, spatial ecological theory.

Environmental and regulatory physiology of birds and reptiles, especially embryos.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Comparative evolutionary biology; micro- and macroevolutionary morphology; theory and analytical methods in evolution; herpetology; morphometrics.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Plant-soil interactions, community ecology, restoration, plant population dynamics, conservation, agroecosystems

Behavior, ecology, evolution, and genetics of free-living animals; influence of ecology and behavior on evolutionary processes and genetic structure of natural populations.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Evolution of life history variation with emphasis on senescence studied through field and laboratory experiments (physiological and molecular genetic), and mathematical/computational modeling.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Interdepartmental Genetics

Systematics and morphology of grasses, in particular the woody bamboos.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Population dynamics, landscape change, field ecology, statistics, simulation modeling.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Excellence in learning of the basic biological sciences; service learning; aquatic ecology and biology; learning communities; education of pre-service secondary school biology teachers.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Wetland processes and function in agricultural landscapes; the dynamics of wetland energy flow and nutrient transformation; fate and effects of agricultural contaminants in wetlands; role of restored and constructed wetlands in water quality remediation.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Science

Effects of complex landscapes on the dynamics and structure of populations and communities; plant-mammal prairie communities; impacts of agriculture on wildlife populations; effects of forest management strategies on animals and plants.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Sustainable Ag

Conservation biology, landscape ecology, and restoration ecology; biodiversity assessment with remote sensing and GIS applications; metapopulation dynamics; habitat fragmentation; population viability assessment; prairie restoration and agroecology.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Aquatic ecology, water quality, watershed biogeochemistry and terrestrial ecology; microbial ecology; conservation of biodiversity; whole ecosystem restoration and management. Global comparative ecology.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Science

Community Ecology, species diversity, biodiversity theory, mathematical and statistical modeling

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.

 

Biology of reptiles, including population genetic structure and molecular evolution; evolutionary physiology; computational biology; evolutionary ecology; conservation biology; life-history evolution; computer modelling of hybrid zones and population demography.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Interdeptmental Genetics

Functional ecology, restoration ecology, and agroecology; relating functional attributes of plants to the structure and function of plant populations and communities; relation of plant characteristics and microenvironments in prairie, wetland, crop, and weed species; acclimation processes; prairie reconstruction.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Science

Sexual selection and the evolution of mating systems and strategies; meta-analysis of literature to quantitatively review topics in behavioural ecology

 

Animal evolution, phylogenetics and mitochondrial genomics; use of gene order data for the analysis of ancient relationships; comparative and population mitochondrial genomics of lower (non-bilaterian) animals.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Interdepartmental Genetics

Theoretical plant population and community ecology in an explicit spatial context; spatial ecology of plants and animals; spatially explicit simulation models; analytical methods for study of scale of patterns; identification of pattern-forming processes. Interplay of theory, observation, and experimentation.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Use of genetic markers to investigate plant population and conservation genetics and insect herbivores and pollinators; reproductive dynamics, genetic structuring, and phylogeography of obligate pollination mutualisms; reproductive and genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in animal dispersed plants.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Interdepartmental Genetics

Vertebrate evolution, bioethics.

Plant/insect interactions.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ecosystems ecology with emphasis on carbon cycling in terrestrial systems; mechanisms of effects of climate, disturbance, species, nutrient availability, and soil type on the movement of carbon through the atmosphere-plant-soil cycle.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Science

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.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Interdepartmental Genetics

Molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and conservation of bivalved molluscs; evolution of development; evolution of novelty; evolution of eyes with a focus on invertebrates

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Interdepartmental Genetics

Plant systematics: Tropical grasses - Lecturer: Biology & Botany

Social behavior of bees and wasps, physiological and molecular basis of behavior, comparative evolutionary genomics

Ecological and Evolutionary genomics of phenotypic plasticity, developmental pathways, and sex determination. Life history evolution, conservation and ecological genetics of turtles.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Interdepartmental Genetics

Restoration and creation of wetlands; revegetation of restored wetlands in the prairie pothole region and in South Florida (Kissimme River and Everglades).

Ecology and Environmental Biology, Environmental Science

Physiological ecology, endocrinology, behavior, ecology, and evolution; mechanisms underlying characteristics of reproduction and survival; hormonal control of parental behavior, effects of age and life span on telomere biology; stress responses; reproductive time and energy allocation; comparative immune function and oxidative damage.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Animal physiological ecology.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary phylogenetics; determining relationships among plant groups to construct phylogenies; application of new information to taxonomic re-evaluation; utilization biochemical/molecular investigations in concert with morphological, cytological, and biogeographic data to examine plant evolution.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Wendel, Jonathan
EEOB Department Chair

Molecular evolution, genome evolution, and phylogenetics of higher plants; use of molecular and genetic tools to explore evolutionary change in DNA sequences and relationships with morphological change; analysis of polyploidy, with a special focus on the cotton genus.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Interdepartmental Genetics

Ecology and restoration of prairie grasslands, specifically on how biodiversity is maintained in these systems, how it is altered by non-native species, how it alters ecosystem resistance and resilience to changes in the environment.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Lersten, Nels
( Professor, EEOB)

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estets@usgs.gov

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