Community Ecology

Core Faculty Research Themes

Alphabetical listing of all faculty

Community Ecology is the study of how populations of species organize and interact with each other and the environment.

Name	Title	Dept	Interest
Armitage, Anna	Professor	Marine Biology Ecology & Conservation Biology	Coastal ecosystem ecology and management of restored and impacted habitats
Belanger, Christina	Assistant Professor	Geology & Geophysics	Biotic responses to environmental change; paleoecology; paleoenvironments
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
Eubanks, Micky	Professor	Entomology	Causes and consequences of variation in complex ecological interactions
Fitzgerald, Lee	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Mechanisms underlying persistence and disappearance of species and communities
Hamer, Gabriel	Professor	Entomology	Ecology of infectious diseases of humans, wild animals, and domestic animals
Hamer, Sarah	Professor	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Ecology and epidemiology of wildlife disease
Kaufman, Phillip	Professor	Entomology	Veterinary and livestock entomology, insecticide resistance, biological control, integrated pest management
Lawing, Michelle	Associate Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Evolutionary responses of species and communites to environmental change
Perkin, Josh	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes; riverine landscape ecology
Quigg, Antonietta	Regents Professor	Marine Biology	Elemental dynamics, physiology, and community ecology in coastal ecosystems
Raymond, Anne	Professor	Geology & Geophysics	Plant paleoecology, paleobiogeography and evolutionary history
Roelke, Daniel	Professor	Marine Biology	Lower foodweb dynamics of aquatic ecosystems; interactions between biota and physicochemical environment
Rogers, William E.	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Plant-animal interactions, population dynamics, community assembly rules, and ecological restoration
Tomberlin, Jeffery	Professor	Entomology	Ecology and biology of flies associated with decomposing matter
Wilcox, Bradford	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Understanding hydrologic processes on shrublands
Winemiller, Kirk O.	Regents Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Ecology and evolution of fishes, community ecology, and aquatic ecosystems

Behavioral Ecology (Integrative Animal Behavior)
– the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures

Community Ecology
– the study of how populations of species organize and interact with each other and the environment

Conservation Biology/Restoration Ecology
– the study of biodiversity and how to sustainably protect, manage, and restore degraded habitats

Ecosystems/Landscape Ecology
– the study of the dynamics of ecological processes through time across a variety of spatial scales

Evolutionary Ecology
– the study of interactions between organisms and their environments from an evolutionary perspective

Evolutionary Genomics
– the study of genome evolution

Phylogenetics & Comparative Biology
– the study of evolutionary relationships among organisms, and the mechanisms and patterns that drive the evolution of those relationships

Physiological Ecology
– the study of relationships between the physiology of organisms and their adaptation to environmental conditions

Population & Quantitative Genetics
– the study of genetic differences within and between populations and assessment of variability of continuous phenotypes

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