Physiological Ecology

Core Faculty by Research Themes

Alphabetical listing of all faculty

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

Name	Title	Dept	Interest
Ausprey, Ian	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Functional & demographic mechanisms underlying biodiversity change across environmental and Anthropogenic disturbance gradients
Barboza, Perry	Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Consequences of life history and environmental change on the nutrition of wild mammals; policies for conservation of wildlife
Behmer, Spencer	Professor	Entomology	Insect physiology and behavior, including their ecological and evolutionary bases
Grace, Jacqueline	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Ecophysiology and behavior of birds
Helms, Anjel	Assistant Professor	Entomology	Chemical ecology, tritrophic and plant-herbivore interactions
Kitchen, Sheila	Assistant Professor	Marine Biology	Host-microbe interactions, comparative and functional genomics, coral reef conservation
Marshall, Christopher	Professor	Marine Biology	Comparative functional organismal biology and evolutionary adaptation
Motta, Erick	Assistant Professor	Entomology	Ecology and evolution of insect-microbiome interactions, impact of environmental stressors on insect-associated microbiomes, honey bee microbiome
Pepper, Alan	Professor	Biology	Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution in terrestrial plants
Quigg, Antonietta	Regents Professor	Marine Biology	Elemental dynamics, physiology, and community ecology in coastal ecosystems
Rangel, Juliana	Associate Professor	Entomology	Population, disease and reproductive biology of honey bees
Smotherman, Michael	Professor	Biology	Physiology and evolution of vocal motor pathway in mammals
Strader, Marie	Assistant Professor	Biology	Marine molecular ecology focused on mechanisms of organismal responses to the environment
Sword, Gregory	Professor	Entomology	Insect, plant & microbial ecology
Tarone, Aaron	Associate Professor	Entomology	Genomic studies of development and population biology in flies
Tomberlin, Jeffery	Professor	Entomology	Ecology and biology of flies associated with decomposing matter
West, Jason	Associate Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Terrestrial ecosystem ecology, plant-environment interactions, and global environmental change

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