Population Ecology

Core Faculty by Research Themes

Alphabetical listing of all faculty

Population Ecology is the study of population dynamics over space and time and how populations interact with the environment.

Name	Title	Dept	Interest
Athrey, Giri	Assistant Professor	Poultry Science	Quantitative genetics and functional genomics, birds and disease vectors
Ausprey, Ian	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Functional & demographic mechanisms underlying biodiversity change across environmental and Anthropogenic disturbance gradients
Brightsmith, Donald	Associate Professor	Veterinary Pathobiology	Ecology and conservation of macaws and parrots
Chappell, Thomas	Assistant Professor	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Epidemiology, ecology, and coevolution of plant-enemy systems
Fitzgerald, Lee	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Mechanisms underlying persistence and disappearance of species and communities
Fitzpatrick, Courtney	Assistant Professor	Biology	Influence of social environments on trait evolution
Foroughirad, Vivienne	Assistant Professor	Marine Biology	Behavioral ecology and genetics of cetaceans
Fujiwara, Masami	Associate Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Effects of life history variation on population and community dynamics
Gonder, Katy	Professor & Dept Head	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Spatial biodiversity patterns, conservation strategies, evolutionary and ecological mechanisms contributing to diversity
Gursky, Sharon	Professor	Anthropology	Behavioral ecology and conservation of non-human primates
Hamer, Gabriel	Associate Professor	Entomology	Ecology of infectious diseases of humans, wild animals, and domestic animals
Kaufman, Phillip	Professor	Entomology	Veterinary and livestock entomology, insecticide resistance, biological control, integrated pest management
Motta, Erick	Assistant Professor	Entomology	Ecology and evolution of insect-microbiome interactions, impact of environmental stressors on insect-associated microbiomes, honey bee microbiome
Rangel, Juliana	Associate Professor	Entomology	Population, disease and reproductive biology of honey bees
Rodrigues, Antonio M.M.	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Social evolution and altruism, demography and life history evolution, multilevel selection and intergroup cooperation, host-symbiont interactions, behavioral ecology and conservation
Roelke, Daniel	Professor	Marine Biology	Lower foodweb dynamics of aquatic ecosystems; interactions between biota and physicochemical environment
Stronza, Amanda	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Community-based conservation, human-wildlife conflict, sustainable development
Sword, Gregory	Professor	Entomology	Insect, plant & microbial ecology
Vargo, Ed	Professor and Endowed Chair	Entomology	Urban and structural entomology
Winemiller, Kirk O.	Regents Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Ecology and evolution of fishes, community ecology, and aquatic ecosystems