Current Faculty

Emeriti

Current Faculty

Donald Alstad
Evolution and population ecology of insects; effects of selection and gene flow on adaptation and specificity in insect herbivores; distribution and community ecology of filtering caddisflies.

Franklin Barnwell
Invertebrate behavior; circadian rhythms; adaptations of intertidal shore crabs.

Mark Bee
Acoustic communication, Auditory perception and neurophysiology, Auditory scene analysis and the cocktail party problem in animals, Behavioral plasticity and learning, Honest signaling, Sexual selection (female mate choice & male-male competition), Vocally mediated social recognition

Mark Borrello
History of biology, evolutionary theory, genetics and ecology, biology of behavior; biology and society.

Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Evolution of plant form and function and the physiological mechanisms that plants use to survive in their environment.

James Cotner
Biological limnology and oceanography; biogeochemistry; microbial ecology.

James Curtsinger
Genetics of aging; Experimental and theoretical population genetics; frequency-dependent selection; fitness in Drosophila.

Antony Dean
Molecular evolution, enzymology

R. Ford Denison
Evolution of mutualism (especially legumes and rhizobia); implications of past and ongoing evolution for agriculture.

Jacques Finlay
Limnology; biogeochemistry; food web and ecosystem ecology; land-water interactions; stable isotope applications in ecological research

Sarah Hobbie
Ecosystem ecology, carbon and nutrient cycling, decomposition, species effects on ecosystem processes, plant-soil interactions.

Sharon Jansa
Mammalian systematics, biogeography, phylogeography, phylogenetic theory, molecular systematics and evolution.

Susan Jones
History of biomedical sciences, history of life sciences, historical ecology of disease, role of science in mediating human-animal interactions over time.

Jennifer King
Biogeochemistry, Earth system science, environmental change, isotope geochemistry, plant-soil-atmosphere interactions.

Scott Lanyon
Avian molecular systematics, comparative behavioral evolution, phylogenetic methods.

Diane Larson
Ecological effects of alien plants in grassland ecosystems.

Clarence Lehman
Theoretical ecology and computation in biology; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; habitat restoration.

Georgiana May
Evolution of host/microbe interactions, molecular evolution and genome organization of plant resistance to pathogens, fungal population genetics.

Joseph McFadden
Global ecology; Biosphere-atmosphere interactions; Earth system science.

Patrice Morrow
Community ecology; interactions of plants.

Helene Muller-Landau
Plant community ecology, especially of tropical forests; ecological and evolutionary theory; anthropogenic influences on plant community structure and dynamics.

Claudia Neuhauser
Theoretical ecology; role of space in community dynamics; theoretical population genetics; coalescent theory.

Craig Packer
Ecology of infectious diseases; ecosystem processes in African savannas; monitoring the effectiveness of poverty alleviation, natural resource management and public health programs in rural Africa.

Stephen Polasky
Ecological/environmental economics, biodiversity conservation and endangered species policy.

Jennifer Powers
Terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecosystem processes, microbial ecology, tropical ecology and landscape ecology

Anne Pusey
Behavioral ecology; parent-offspring interaction; sex differences in development; dispersal patterns; mating systems.

Jon Ross
Aquatic biology, specifically applications of telemetry to free ranging fish, ecological genetics of zooplankton and environmental monitoring

Ruth Shaw
Evolutionary quantitative genetics; plant population biology.

David Stephens
Experimental behavioral ecology, foraging behavior; animal decision-making; evolutionary approaches to animal cognition; learning and memory as adaptations.

Robert Sterner
Limnology; plankton ecology; food webs; aquatic biogeochemistry; nutrient dynamics.

Shinya Sugita
Quaternary palynology and paleoecology; theory of pollen analysis; stand-scale dynamics of forest; species invasion and migration; land use history.

G. David Tilman
Ecological effects of human domination of the earth; population ecology and theory of community dynamics and biodiversity; role of resource competition; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; effect of habitat destruction.

Michael Travisano
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary genetics, microbial ecology and evolution

Michael Wilson
Ecology and evolution of social behavior and communication; intergroup relations; aggression; wildlife health and conservation

Robert Zink
Evolution, biogeography, and molecular systematics of birds at the population and species level.