Conservation Biology/Restoration Ecology

Core Faculty Research Themes

Alphabetical listing of all faculty

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

Name	Title	Dept	Interest
Alvarado-Bremer, Jaime	Professor	Marine Biology	Conservation and population genetics of large pelagic fishes
Armitage, Anna	Professor	Marine Biology Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	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 Pathbiology	Ecology and conservation of macaws and parrots
Feagin, Rusty	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Responses of beach, dune, and wetland ecosystems to global change
Fitzgerald, Lee	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Mechanisms underlying persistence and disappearance of species and communities
Hurtado, Luis	Associate Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Evolutionary origins, patterns and maintenance of biodiversity
Jurgens, Laura	Assistant Professor	Marine Biology	Global change and extreme events; marine and estuarine community ecology; macro-ecology
Lacher, Tom	Professor Emeritus	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Assessment and monitoring of patterns and trends in biodiversity
Lawing, Michelle	Assistant Professor	Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Evolutionary responses of species and communites to environmental change
Moore, Georgianne	Associate Professor	Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Ecosystem management as it relates to the water cycle
Pepper, Alan	Professor	Biology	Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution in terrestrial plants
Perkin, Josh	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes; riverine landscape ecology
Raymond, Anne	Professor	Geology & Geophysics	Plant paleoecology, paleobiogeography and evolutionary history
Rogers, William E.	Professor	Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Plant-animal interactions, population dynamics, community assembly rules, and ecological restoration
Stronza, Amanda	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Community-based conservation, human-wildlife conflict, sustainable development

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