Courtesy: S. Strauss, H.B. Shaffer, L. Yang, K. Higgins (of R. Grosberg), and G. Patricelli.
Faculty Directory
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Contact Information |
Research Interest |
Department Affiliation |
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mlbaskett |
Theoretical population, community, and evolutionary ecology applied to conservation biology, particularly in marine systems. |
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djbegun |
Drosophila Evolutionary Genetics. |
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mborgerhoffmulder |
Human behavioral ecology relating to life history, conservation, and global patterns of cultural variation. |
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lwbotsford |
Theoretical and applied population dynamics involving age, size, and spatial structure. Fisheries, population viability analysis. |
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tmcaro |
Antipredator strategies in birds and mammals, methods of conserving tropical diversity, behavioral ecology, conservation biology. |
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gmcoop |
Population and evolutionary genetics. |
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hvcornell |
Community ecology, species diversity and its determinants at different spatial scales. |
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jaeisen |
Phylogenomics and the origin of novelty in microorganisms; endosymbioses; microbial communities; metagenomics; extremophiles. |
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veviner |
Plant-soil interactions; effective management of invasions, restoration, biogeochemical cycling, global change, grazing systems, and sustainable agriculture. |
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jrgriesemer |
History, philosophy and social studies of biology: models and practices in museum-based natural history, lab-based ecology, units and levels of inheritance and selection in evolutionary biology, and visual representation in embryology and genetics. |
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rkgrosberg |
Behavioral, ecological, cellular, developmental, and genetic mechanisms. |
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spharrison |
Ecology, conservation biology, natural history. |
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amhastings |
Theoretical ecology; population and mathematical biology. |
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rkarban |
Population regulation of animal species and the interactions between herbivores and their host plants. |
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akopp |
Molecular genetic mechanisms of evolution. |
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chlangley |
Population genetics and molecular evolution. |
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splawler |
Aquatic ecology especially mosquitoes, other aquatic insects and amphibians; experimental studies of food webs and population dynamics, ecosystem subsidy. |
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mcelreath |
Cultural evolution, theoretical evolutionary ecology, evolution of social behavior |
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brianmoore |
Phylogenetic theory and methods for exploring evolutionary problems (e.g., lineage diversification, historical biogeography); study of fundamental questions in the evolution of flowering plants |
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dbneale |
The function of genes in forest trees and tree breeding technologies. |
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gpatricelli |
Animal communication and sexual selection. |
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brannala |
Mathematical aspects of population genetics, phylogenetic inference, and human genetics |
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kjrice |
Population biology and conservation biology of native and invasive plant species using ecological, genetic, and physiological techniques. |
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jarosenheim |
Behavioral, evolutionary, population, and community ecology. |
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rossibarra |
Population genetics and genomics of maize and its wild relatives. |
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edsanford |
Experimental biogeography and the potential impacts of climate change on natural communities. |
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twschoener |
Ecology, island biogeography and natural selection. |
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sschreiber |
Theoretical ecology, mathematics: community structure, population dynamics, and evolutionary processes. |
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mwschwartz |
Plant community ecology. Conservation biology. |
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hbshaffer |
Systematics, population and ecological genetics, and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles. **Dr. Shaffer will begin a new position at UCLA effective January 2012.** |
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amshapiro |
Evolution, ecology, phylogeny, and biogeography of the pierid butterflies. Evolution of seasonality. Insect-host plant interactions. Phenotypic plasticity and canalization. |
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asih |
Evo/Ecol impacts of behavior, including effects of predation risk on mating and sexual selection, behavioral traits associated with biological invasions, and effects of trait syndromes on antipredatory behavior and cannibalism. |
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jjstachowicz |
Population and community ecology of seaweeds and marine invertebrates; Species Invasions; Ecological consequences of species and genetic diversity. |
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mlstanton |
Population biology of plants and ants; consequences of genetic variation within and among populations; adaptation in response to edaphic heterogeneity (e.g. soil types), mutualist "partners" and natural enemies; dynamics of multi-species mutualisms. |
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systrauss |
How species evolve as a consequence of community membership (their complex interactions with co-occurring species); direct and indirect effects (through pollinators) of herbivory on male and female plant fitness. |
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drstrong |
Trophic ecology. Ecology and evolution of insect-plant interactions. Soil ecology, natural enemy, and salt-marsh ecology. Biological control of weeds. |
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mturelli |
Theoretical population and quantitative genetics, speciation, and population biology of Drosophila, especially cytoplasmic incompatibility. |
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gjvermeij |
History of organisms and their enemies through time, biotic interchange today and in the geological past, molluscan biology and functional morphology; relationship between macroeconomics and evolution. |
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pcwainwright |
Vertebrate evolution. Functional morphology/biomechanics. Ecological physiology. |
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psward |
Systematics and evolutionary biology of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). |
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lhyang |
Behavioral, population, community and ecosystem ecology. Phenology, ontogeny and the timing of species interactions. Temporal variation, resource pulses, spatial subsidies and extreme events |
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tpyoung |
Management, conservation, and restoration of human-dominated landscapes, and to the maintenance of biodiversity. |
Fall 2011
Faculty in Consideration for Membership (PENDING):