Core Faculty Research Themes

Alphabetical listing of all faculty

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

Note:  The departments of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences and Ecosystem Science and Management have been restructured.  WFSC is now Ecology & Conservation Biology.  ESSM is now Rangeland, Wildlife & Fisheries Management.

Name	Title	Dept	Interest
Armitage, Anna	Professor	Marine Biology Ecology & Conservation Biology	Coastal ecosystem ecology and management of restored and impacted habitats
Ausprey, Ian	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Functional & demographic mechanisms underlying biodiversity change across environmental and Anthropogenic disturbance gradients
Belanger, Christina	Assistant Professor	Geology & Geophysics	Biotic responses to environmental change; paleoecology; paleoenvironments
Duell, Eric	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Plant-soil-microbial interactions, plant ecology, community ecology, grassland ecology, phylogenetic patterns of mutualistic relationships
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
Hamer, Gabriel	Associate Professor	Entomology	Ecology of infectious diseases of humans, wild animals, and domestic animals
Hamer, Sarah	Associate Professor	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Ecology and epidemiology of wildlife disease
Jiao, Wenzhe	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Ecosystem functioning response to natural disturbances
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
Rogers, William	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Plant-animal interactions, population dynamics, community assembly rules, and ecological restoration
West, Jason	Associate Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Terrestrial ecosystem ecology, plant-environment interactions, and global environmental change
Wilcox, Bradford	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Understanding hydrologic processes on shrublands
Wu, X. Ben	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Landscape ecology and undergraduate ecology education