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Behavior
Daniel Blumstein | The evolution of behavior and the integration of behavior and conservation biology. |
Patricia Adair Gowaty | Evolutionary ecology, evolution of behavior, sexual behavior, mating systems, sexual conflict, parental behavior, maternal effects, developmental plasticity, sex allocation, genetic parentage, ornithology |
Gregory Grether | Causes and consequences of aggression and reproductive interference between species; character displacement; species recognition; evolution of coloration; the role of phenotypic plasticity in evolution; animal behavior |
Peter Narins | Auditory Behavior, Neurophysiology and Mechanics |
Peter Nonacs | Behavioral ecology and social evolution, using both theoretical and experimental approaches. |
Noa Pinter-Wollman | The emergence of collective behavior from variation and interactions among system components. |
Barney Schlinger | Steroid hormone synthesis and action in birds; hormonal control of brain and behavior in tropical bird species |
Pamela Yeh | Adaptation to novel environments; evolution of drug resistance in bacteria; urban ecology and evolution |
Conservation Biology
Michael Alfaro | vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics |
Paul Barber | Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation. |
Daniel Blumstein | The evolution of behavior and the integration of behavior and conservation biology. |
Shane Campbell-Staton | |
Peggy Fong | Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems. |
Gregory Grether | Causes and consequences of aggression and reproductive interference between species; character displacement; species recognition; evolution of coloration; the role of phenotypic plasticity in evolution; animal behavior |
Stephen Hubbell | Community ecology; biodiversity |
Peter Kareiva | |
Lawren Sack | Ecology and physiology of plant species coexistence. Hydraulics of plant water transport. Evolution and functional consequences of diversity in leaf size, shape and venation. Forest dynamics and ecohydrology. Conservation physiology. |
H. Bradley Shaffer | |
Thomas Smith | Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics. |
Victoria Sork | Ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genomics of tree populations; evolutionary biology and conservation science of oaks; phylogeography; hybridization and introgression; molecular ecology of pollen and seed dispersal. |
Robert Wayne | Application of molecular genetic techniques to questions in systematics, population genetics, sociobiology and conservation |
Ecology
Priyanga Amarasekare | Mechanisms of diversity maintenance in variable environments |
Shane Campbell-Staton | |
Peggy Fong | Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems. |
Peter Kareiva | |
Nathan Kraft | Plant community ecology, with an emphasis on functional and phylogenetic approaches to understanding community assembly and species coexistence; tropical forest dynamics; biogeography and the assembly of regional biotas. |
James Lloyd-Smith | Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales. |
Glen MacDonald | Glen M Sproul dit MacDonald works on issues of climate change and ecological and societal responses. |
Lawren Sack | Ecology and physiology of plant species coexistence. Hydraulics of plant water transport. Evolution and functional consequences of diversity in leaf size, shape and venation. Forest dynamics and ecohydrology. Conservation physiology. |
Van Savage | Effects of climate on ecological systems; species interactions; evolutionary dynamics; mathematical biology; biological scaling in relation to thermal responses, vascular systems, sleep, and tumor growth |
H. Bradley Shaffer | |
Thomas Smith | Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics. |
Victoria Sork | Ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genomics of tree populations; evolutionary biology and conservation science of oaks; phylogeography; hybridization and introgression; molecular ecology of pollen and seed dispersal. |
Blaire Van Valkenburgh | Paleobiology, ecology, and functional morphology of vertebrates |
Felipe Zapata | Systematics and evolutionary biology; plant biology; quantitative taxonomy; macroevolution; phylogenetic comparative functional genomics; tropical biology |
Cheryl Ann Zimmer | Population ecology of marine organisms, especially the role of hydrodynamic processes |
Richard Zimmer | Ecology and sensory biology of aquatic organisms; chemical signals and communication |
Evolutionary Biology
Michael Alfaro | vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics |
Paul Barber | Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation. |
Donald Buth | Ichthyology; parasitology, phylogenetic systematics, population structure of lower vertebrates |
Shane Campbell-Staton | |
Nandita Garud | Population genetics; Evolution in natural populations, with a current focus on the microbiome. |
Patricia Adair Gowaty | Evolutionary ecology, evolution of behavior, sexual behavior, mating systems, sexual conflict, parental behavior, maternal effects, developmental plasticity, sex allocation, genetic parentage, ornithology |
Gregory Grether | Causes and consequences of aggression and reproductive interference between species; character displacement; species recognition; evolution of coloration; the role of phenotypic plasticity in evolution; animal behavior |
David Jacobs | Evolution/Development of Invertebrate Body Plans, Paleobiology and Marine Speciation |
James Lloyd-Smith | Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales. |
Kirk E. Lohmueller | Population genetics; Statistical methods in evolutionary and medical genetics; genetic variation data |
Noa Pinter-Wollman | The emergence of collective behavior from variation and interactions among system components. |
Karen Sears | Developmental and evolutionary biology of mammals |
H. Bradley Shaffer | |
Thomas Smith | Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics. |
Victoria Sork | Ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genomics of tree populations; evolutionary biology and conservation science of oaks; phylogeography; hybridization and introgression; molecular ecology of pollen and seed dispersal. |
Blaire Van Valkenburgh | Paleobiology, ecology, and functional morphology of vertebrates |
Robert Wayne | Application of molecular genetic techniques to questions in systematics, population genetics, sociobiology and conservation |
Pamela Yeh | Adaptation to novel environments; evolution of drug resistance in bacteria; urban ecology and evolution |
Felipe Zapata | Systematics and evolutionary biology; plant biology; quantitative taxonomy; macroevolution; phylogenetic comparative functional genomics; tropical biology |
Marine Biology
Michael Alfaro | vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics |
Paul Barber | Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation. |
Donald Buth | Ichthyology; parasitology, phylogenetic systematics, population structure of lower vertebrates |
Peggy Fong | Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems. |
Malcolm Gordon | Comparative ecological physiology of lower vertebrates, with emphasis on fish locomotion |
David Jacobs | Evolution/Development of Invertebrate Body Plans, Paleobiology and Marine Speciation |
James Lloyd-Smith | Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales. |
Cheryl Ann Zimmer | Population ecology of marine organisms, especially the role of hydrodynamic processes |
Richard Zimmer | Ecology and sensory biology of aquatic organisms; chemical signals and communication |
Paleobiology
David Jacobs | Evolution/Development of Invertebrate Body Plans, Paleobiology and Marine Speciation |
Karen Sears | Developmental and evolutionary biology of mammals |
Glen MacDonald | Glen M Sproul dit MacDonald works on issues of climate change and ecological and societal responses. |
Blaire Van Valkenburgh | Paleobiology, ecology, and functional morphology of vertebrates |
Robert Wayne | Application of molecular genetic techniques to questions in systematics, population genetics, sociobiology and conservation |
Plant Biology
Peggy Fong | Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems. |
Stephen Hubbell | Community ecology; biodiversity |
Nathan Kraft | Plant community ecology, with an emphasis on functional and phylogenetic approaches to understanding community assembly and species coexistence; tropical forest dynamics; biogeography and the assembly of regional biotas. |
Lawren Sack | Ecology and physiology of plant species coexistence. Hydraulics of plant water transport. Evolution and functional consequences of diversity in leaf size, shape and venation. Forest dynamics and ecohydrology. Conservation physiology. |
Victoria Sork | Ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genomics of tree populations; evolutionary biology and conservation science of oaks; phylogeography; hybridization and introgression; molecular ecology of pollen and seed dispersal. |
Felipe Zapata | Systematics and evolutionary biology; plant biology; quantitative taxonomy; macroevolution; phylogenetic comparative functional genomics; tropical biology |
Physiological Ecology
Shane Campbell-Staton | |
Malcolm Gordon | Comparative ecological physiology of lower vertebrates, with emphasis on fish locomotion |
Nathan Kraft | Plant community ecology, with an emphasis on functional and phylogenetic approaches to understanding community assembly and species coexistence; tropical forest dynamics; biogeography and the assembly of regional biotas. |
Lawren Sack | Ecology and physiology of plant species coexistence. Hydraulics of plant water transport. Evolution and functional consequences of diversity in leaf size, shape and venation. Forest dynamics and ecohydrology. Conservation physiology. |
Theory
Michael Alfaro | vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics |
Priyanga Amarasekare | Mechanisms of diversity maintenance in variable environments |
Nandita Garud | Population genetics; Evolution in natural populations, with a current focus on the microbiome. |
Stephen Hubbell | Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales. |
James Lloyd-Smith | Comparative ecological physiology of lower vertebrates, with emphasis on fish locomotion |
Kirk E. Lohmueller | Population genetics; Statistical methods in evolutionary and medical genetics; genetic variation data |
Peter Nonacs | Behavioral ecology and social evolution, using both theoretical and experimental approaches. |
Noa Pinter-Wollman | The emergence of collective behavior from variation and interactions among system components. |
Van Savage | Effects of climate on ecological systems; species interactions; evolutionary dynamics; mathematical biology; biological scaling in relation to thermal responses, vascular systems, sleep, and tumor growth |
Karen Sears | Developmental and evolutionary biology of mammals |
Tropical Biology
Paul Barber | Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation. |
Shane Campbell-Staton | |
Stephen Hubbell | Community ecology; biodiversity |
Nathan Kraft | Plant community ecology, with an emphasis on functional and phylogenetic approaches to understanding community assembly and species coexistence; tropical forest dynamics; biogeography and the assembly of regional biotas. |
Lawren Sack | Ecology and physiology of plant species coexistence. Hydraulics of plant water transport. Evolution and functional consequences of diversity in leaf size, shape and venation. Forest dynamics and ecohydrology. Conservation physiology. |
Thomas Smith | Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics. |
Victoria Sork | Ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genomics of tree populations; evolutionary biology and conservation science of oaks; phylogeography; hybridization and introgression; molecular ecology of pollen and seed dispersal. |