Professors

Plant ecophysiology; photosynthesis; environmental stress; phloem structure & function.

Impacts of changing climate and land use on plant communities and soil resources in arid land ecosystems; biogeochemistry, dendrochronology, forest ecology, management and restoration of grazing land ecosystems.

Interactions between plants, herbivores and natural enemies.

Plant ecology, terrestrial ecosystem science.

Social behavior of insects, kin recognition system of honey bees, nest defense in honey bees, and social biology of the giant tropical ants.

Habitat loss & fragmentation; patterns of landscape change; restoration ecology.

Behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary studies of birds and fishes.

Introductory Biology for Non-Science Majors; Coral Reef Ecology -- A field course during Christmas break; Tropical Marine Ecology
(Teaching only -- No Research Program)

Spatial dynamics of communities and populations; invasion; extinction; grasslands; microcosms; habitat fragmentation.

Plant ecophysiology; photosynthesis; mechanisms of plant stress adaptation.

Development, evolution, and ecology of plant reproductive systems.

Soil ecology, microbial ecology, role of microorganisms in terrestrial ecosystems.

Theoretical and empirical evolutionary ecology, habitat selection behavior, predator-prey interactions, spatial distributions, and animal movement mechanisms.

Evolution of plants; plant reproductive biology; history of evolutionism before Darwin.

Plant population biology, population genetics and ecology, computer simulations.

Global change biology, ecological and evolutionary informatics, and broad scale biodiversity patterns and processes.

Disease emergence and biological invasions; freshwater ecology; host-parasite dynamics; conservation biology.

Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolutionary Biology of Diatoms; freshwater ecology; freshwater algae. Biogeography of diatoms

Freshwater ecology and limnology.

Evolutionary & conservation biology; microbial diversity; biogeography.

Community ecology; Mountain ecology; Patterns and mechanisms of diversity, distribution, and abundance; Ecological theory; Climate change; Vertebrate population & conservation biology; Biogeography.

Parasitology, wildlife disease, land use change and invasive species, conservation biology

Developmental and genetic bases of vertebrate evolution, developmental gene regulation, evolution of the vertebrate head skeleton.

Ecology of populations and communities; biodiversity; conservation; invasion; extinction; climate change; mathematical ecology.

Population genetics, genetic structure of plant and animal populations, adaptive significance of heterozygosity, evolutionary conservation genetics of plants and animals.

Microbial evolution and ecology, horizontal gene transfer.

Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology, Vertebrate Social Behavior, the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation, Relationships between Individual Behavior and Population-level Patterns.

Microbial ecology, plant/microbe interactions, biogeochemistry, mycorrhizae.

Terrestrial ecosystems; soil biology; ecology of invasive plant species.

Developmental genetic mechanisms of the evolution of teeth in fishes.

Terrestrial ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry; global environmental change.

Landscape & regional ecology; Disturbance; Land-use/land-cover change; Remote sensing/GIS