The Faculty and their Research
Research Areas -- Ecology
Core EEBB faculty
Christoph C. Adami
Evolution of Behavior and Intelligence.
James R. Bence
Quantitative fishery ecology.
Mary T. Bremigan
Aquatic ecology and fisheries management.
Lars A. Brudvig
Restoration, landscape, and plant ecology.
Kendra S. Cheruvelil
Aquatic ecology, landscape limmology, exotic species, applied ecology, macrophytes.
Jeffrey K. Conner
Evolutionary ecology, ecological genetics.
Thomas G. Coon
Stream fishery ecology.
Frank B. Dazzo
Microbial ecology, rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
Donald I. Dickmann
Ecology of fire and other disturbances; plant physiological ecology.
Fred C. Dyer
Ethology and behavioral ecology.
Diane Ebert-May
Science education; plant ecology.
Andrew O. Finley
Methodology for monitoring and modeling environmental processes; Bayesian statistics; spatial statistics; and statistical computing.
Stuart H. Gage
Insect population dynamics and human dimensions.
Thomas Getty
Behavioral ecology of vertebrates.
Matthew Grieshop
Community and population ecology, animal behavior.
Katherine L. Gross
Plant population and community ecology.
Stephen K. Hamilton
Biogeochemistry and aquatic ecology.
Daniel Hayes
Fish community and population interactions.
Richard W. Hill
Ecological Physiology; marine sulfur metabolism.
Robert K. Hitchcock
Development/applied anthropology, human ecology, human rights, Africa.
Kay E. Holekamp
Behavioral ecology; ethology and behavioral endocrinology.
Marianne Huebner
Statistical Genetics, Microarray Analysis, Ecological Models, Biological Networks, Stochastic Differential Equations.
Andrew M. Jarosz
Evolutionary ecology of plant-pathogen interactions.
Michael L. Jones
Fish population dynamics and management.
Christopher Klausmeier
Theoretical and aquatic ecology.
Richard K. Kobe
Forest ecology.
Douglas A. Landis
Landscape ecology and biological control.
Jennifer A. Lau
Evolution and community ecology.
Jay T. Lennon
Microbial ecology.
Richard E. Lenski
Experimental evolution with microbes and digital organisms.
Weiming Li
Fish chemoreception and chemical ecology.
Catherine Lindell
Behavioral and landscape ecology.
Elena Litchman
Ecology and evolution of phytoplankton, community ecology, aquatic ecology.
Jianguo (Jack) Liu
Systems modeling and simulation; biodiversity and ecosystem management.
Carolyn M. Malmström
Ecosystem & landscape dynamics, restoration ecology, remote sensing.
Terence L. Marsh
Microbial community analysis.
Brian A. Maurer
Macroecology, biogeography, quantitative population and community ecology.
Deborah G. McCullough
Forest entomology, insect ecology.
Richard W. Merritt
Aquatic entomology and ecology.
Kelly F. Millenbah
Restoration Ecology; Endangered Species Management.
James R. Miller
Behavioral and physiological aspects of insect ecology.
Gary G. Mittelbach
Community ecology and aquatics.
Cheryl A. Murphy
Environmental toxicology.
Peter G. Murphy
Plant ecology.
Patrick M. Muzzall
Parasitology.
Nathaniel Ostrom
Biogeochemistry.
Peggy H. Ostrom
Biogeochemical cycling.
Jen Owen
Ecology of infectious diseases, behavioral ecology, ecoimmunology.
Scott Peacor
Population & community ecology, ecological & ecosystem modeling, aquatic ecology.
G. Philip Robertson
Ecosystem and agricultural ecology.
Gary J. Roloff
Ecological community responses to disturbances; landscape-level modeling, planning, and assessments.
David E. Rothstein
Ecosystem ecology.
Orlando Sarnelle
Biological limnology, ecology.
Douglas W. Schemske
Speciation; mechanisms of adaptation.
Thomas Schmidt
Microbial ecology and evolution.
J. Mark Scriber
Evolutionary ecology of insect-plant interactions.
Kim L. Scribner
Population genetics, population ecology and conservation biology.
Alexander Shingleton
Ecological and evolutionary developmental biology.
Patricia Soranno
Limnology and ecosystem ecology.
R. Jan Stevenson
Algal ecology; aquatic ecology; environmental science.
Nathan Swenson
Plant functional ecology and evolution, community ecology, tropical biology.
Zsofia Szendrei
Insect ecology, chemical ecology, biocontrol.
William W. Taylor
Fish population and community dynamics.
Frank W. Telewski
Developmental tree ecophysiology.
James M. Tiedje
Microbial ecology.
Jean I. Tsao
Ecology and evolution of disease organisms.
Edward D. Walker
Medical entomology.
Michael B. Walters
Functional ecology of plants; forest community ecology.
Scott Winterstein Wildlife population dynamics.
Additional faculty
Ted R. Batterson
Limnology, tropical pond aquaculture.
Thomas M. Burton
Aquatic ecology.
Thomas Dietz
Human ecology and cultural evolution.
Maren L. Friesen
Legume-rhizobium symbiosis, ecological and evolutionary genomics, plant-microbiome interactions, coevolution.
Robert A. Haack
Plant-insect interactions; invasion ecology; conservation biology.
Donald J. Hall Aquatic population and community ecology.
Karen L. Klomparens
Plant host/parasite relations, electron microscopy.
Michael J. Klug
Microbial ecology, ecology of anaerobic bacteria.
David W. MacFarlane
Forest measurements and modeling.
Haddish Melakeberhan
Agricultural Nematology.
William F. Porter
Wildlife Ecology.
Harold H. Prince Avian ecology and behavior.
C. Michael Wagner Behavioral and community ecology of fishes.
Patrick J. Webber
Community and landscape ecology.
