Tag: landscape ecology
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Spotlight: Eric Duell
Eric Duell joined the EEB program in August 2025 and is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University in the Department of Ecology & Conservation Biology. Using a combination of lab, greenhouse, and field experiments, his work aims to tease apart the intricate relationships between plants and their associated soil microbiomes. He is particularly interested in…
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Spotlight: Kristina Chyn
Kristina Chyn is a 3rd year PhD student in Lee Fitzgerald’s lab. Kristina is broadly interested in conservation, landscape ecology, and herpetology. For her dissertation, she studies the direct and indirect effects of roads on reptiles and amphibians in Taiwan and is conducting her fieldwork on a Fulbright fellowship (2016-2017). She received her B.S. in…
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Spotlight: Erin Buchholtz
Erin Buchholtz is a 3rd year PhD student whose research interests broadly include ecology and conservation biology. She received her Bachelor’s degree with honors in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. Erin came to Texas A&M as an NSF-IGERT Fellow through the Applied Biodiversity Program and she is now conducting her doctoral research in…