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
Antony-Babou, Sanjay	Assistant Professor	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Plant-microbe interactions
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
Bapst, David	Instructional Assistant Professor	Geology & Geophysics	Paleobiology, morphological systematics, macroevolution, fossil record of marine invertebrates
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
Duell, Eric	Assistant Professor	Ecology & Conservation Biology	Plant-soil-microbial interactions, plant ecology, community ecology, grassland ecology, phylogenetic patterns of mutualistic relationships
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
Motta, Erick	Assistant Professor	Entomology	Ecology and evolution of insect-microbiome interactions, impact of environmental stressors on insect-associated microbiomes, honey bee microbiome
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