Ecosystems / Landscape Ecology

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.

Name	Title	Dept	Interest
Armitage, Anna	Associate Professor	Marine Biology Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Coastal ecosystem ecology and management of restored and impacted habitats
Boutton, Thomas	Regents Professor	Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Land cover/land use effects on ecosystem biogeochemistry
Campbell, Lisa	Professor	Oceanography	Community structure, population dynamics and diversity of marine phytoplankton
Feagin, Rusty	Associate Professor	Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Responses of beach, dune, and wetland ecosystems to global change
Fitzgerald, Lee	Professor	Wildlife & Fisheries Sci	Mechanisms underlying persistence and disappearance of species and communities
Hamer, Gabriel	Assistant Professor	Entomology	Ecology of infectious diseases of humans, wild animals, and domestic animals
Hamer, Sarah	Assistant Professor	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Ecology and epidemiology of wildlife disease
Lacher, Tom	Professor	Wildlife & Fisheries Sci	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
Perkin, Josh	Assistant Professor	Wildlife & Fisheries Sci	Ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes; riverine landscape ecology
Quigg, Antonietta	Professor	Marine Biology	Elemental dynamics, physiology, and community ecology in coastal ecosystems
Rogers, William	Professor	Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Plant-animal interactions, population dynamics, community assembly rules, and ecological restoration
West, Jason	Associate Professor	Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Terrestrial ecosystem ecology, plant-environment interactions, and global environmental change
Wilcox, Bradford	Professor	Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Understanding hydrologic processes on shrublands
Wu, X. Ben	Professor	Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt	Landscape ecology and undergraduate ecology education

Behavior 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 and 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 and 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