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Keith Barker
Avian phylogeny and genetics, evolution of social behavior, spatial and temporal patterns of diversification, molecular evolution
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
Elizabeth Borer
Community ecology and trophic interactions; ecology of infectious disease; effects of fertilization on communities and ecosystems.
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
Jacques Finlay
Limnology; biogeochemistry; food web and ecosystem ecology; land-water interactions; stable isotope applications in ecological research
Jon Foley
Interactions between humans and global environment systems; land use and agricultural practices and their effects on ecosystems; interactions among climate, ecosystems and freshwater systems; applications of modeling and remote sensing techniques to global sustainability issues
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.
Scott Lanyon
Avian Systematics, Comparative Phylogenetics, Phylogenetic Methods.
Georgiana May
Evolution of host/microbe interactions, molecular evolution and genome organization of plant resistance to pathogens, fungal population genetics.
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.
Eric Seabloom
Effects of environmental change and other disturbances on community composition, invasibility, and associated ecosystem processes.
Ruth Shaw
Evolutionary quantitative genetics; plant population biology.
Emilie Snell-Rood
Behavior, learning, cognition; phenotypic plasticity; evolution of development; variable and changing environments
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.
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.
Adjunct Faculty
Jeff Corney
R. Ford Denison
Evolution of mutualism (especially legumes and rhizobia); implications of past and ongoing evolution for agriculture.
Joseph Fargione
Diane Larson
Ecological effects of alien plants in grassland ecosystems.
Clarence Lehman
Theoretical ecology and computation in biology; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; habitat restoration.
Joseph McFadden
Land-atmosphere interactions, land-cover and land-use change, regional climate modeling
Claudia Neuhauser
Theoretical ecology; role of space in community dynamics; theoretical population genetics; coalescent theory.
Jon Ross
Aquatic biology, specifically applications of telemetry to free ranging fish, ecological genetics of zooplankton and environmental monitoring
Franklin Barnwell
Invertebrate behavior; circadian rhythms; adaptations of intertidal shore crabs.
Edward Cushing
Ecology and paleoecology of vegetation and landscapes; phytogeography; Quaternary vegetation history of Minnesota and Indonesia; pollen and spore morphology and analysis.
Margaret Davis (Regents' Professor Emeritus)
Quaternary paleoecology; history of forest communities; past changes in geographical distributions of forest species; effects of soil development on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; earth system science and past and future global change.
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