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Plant ecophysiology, community ecology and biogeography. Ecological responses to climate change.

Dr. Briggs’ research combines modeling and experiments to understand the factors affecting the dynamics of animal populations.

Marine ecology, community ecology, trophic interactions, coral reefs.

Terrestrial plant community and ecosystem ecology, controls over vegetation change, feedbacks, restoration ecology.

Population and community ecology, river ecology, predator-prey interactions, science education.

The Froehlich Lab studies the sustainability of seafood and marine ecosystems under climate change.

Marine ecology, sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, oceans and climate change.

Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez has worked for twenty years on diversity and function in marine phytoplankton combining molecular approaches, carbon physiology and biogeochemistry in the lab and in the field.

The mission of our research group is to reveal the role of infectious diseases in ecosystems. We investigate parasite ecology, disease ecology, food web dynamics, ecology and evolution of infectious strategies, and control of human parasites.

Quantitative evolutionary genetics, mating system evolution, adaptation, pollination ecology, and floral evolution.

Ecology; Conservation Science.

Uses mathematics, experiments, and field observations to understand how metabolic interactions between species shape the structure and function of ecological communities.

Plant-microbe evolution and ecology, microbial species diversity and taxonomy, evolution of symbiosis.

Marine microbial ecology, nitrogen cycling.

Joy-centered pedagogy in biology education, equity-minded teacher professional development, epistemologies in STEM, accessible course-based research experiences, and all things fungal.

Ocean Resilience: biodiversity, assembly, and sustainability of harvested ocean ecosystems.

Distributional ecology and systematics of western North American and Australian amphibians and reptiles; ecology and systematics of monitor lizards; mechanics of intergrade zones and of speciational processes; crypsis; functional and evolutionary morphology; ethnozoology; conservation biology.

I am interested how microbial interactions and tightly-coupled biogeochemical cycles drive the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations, with a current focus on the bacteria and archaea of marine aggregates and biofilms.

Community ecology, conservation biology, global change biology, disease ecology, food-web ecology.