Robert Bagchi

The processes that maintain biodiversity in natural ecosystems (particularly in the tropics); how human activity might affect this biodiversity; the role of biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem functions/services

Daniel Bolnick

Evolution and ecology of variation within species; evolutionary immunology; host-parasite co-evolution; speciation. I combine observational natural history with experiments, theory, and genomics.

Andrew Bush

Paleobiology, including Phanerozoic trends in ecospace utilization and biodiversity; gradient analyses of patchy paleoecologic distributions; and stratigraphy and extinction in the Late Devonian of the Appalachian Basin

Janine Caira

Morphology, taxonomy, systematics and evolution of platyhelminths, especially tapeworms of sharks and rays

Pamela Diggle

Effects of genotype, environment, and ontogenetic history on the development and evolutionary diversification of plant phenotypes

Chris Elphick

Avian conservation ecology, especially in coastal and farmland settings; habitat loss, climate change, large-scale conservation planning

Carlos García-Robledo

Evolutionary ecology of plant-insect interactions; adaptation to novel environments (e.g., novel hosts, climate change), molecular biology, insect physiology, demography

Bernard Goffinet

Systematics of bryophytes and lichenized fungi; evolution of spore dispersal mechanisms and breeding systems in mosses; evolution of multiple symbioses and photomorphism in lichens

Kent Holsinger

Theoretical population genetics; plant population genetics and evolution; evolution of plant mating systems; conservation biology; plant systematics; molecular evolution

Elizabeth Jockusch

Phenotypic evolution; particularly evolution of development and evolution of phenotypic plasticity in basal insects and salamanders; systematics

Cynthia Jones

Plant structure and function at the organ level; the evolution of morphology; plant functional trait variation and evolution; botany

Sarah Knutie

Disease ecology of birds and amphibians; host-microbe interactions; ecotoxicology; invasive species biology; behavioral ecology

Louise Lewis

Systematics and evolution of green algae, especially terrestrial forms; phylogeny of basal green plants; diversity of desert algae

Paul Lewis

Phylogenetic theory and methodology; statistical phylogenetics with an emphasis on Bayesian phylogenetics; marginal likelihood estimation

Gene Likens

Margaret Rubega

Avian functional and evolutionary morphology, especially of feeding structures; feeding mechanics; functional aspects of behavior; ecology; conservation biology

Carl Schlichting

Phenotypic evolution; ecology and evolution of phenotypic plasticity and reaction norms; evolution of plant breeding systems

Eric Schultz

Evolutionary ecology, physiological ecology, and population biology, especially of fishes; adaptation in life history traits; ecology of larval fishes

Kurt Schwenk

Functional and evolutionary morphology of tetrapod vertebrates, especially feeding and chemoreception in lizards and snakes

Jeff Seemann

Plant responses to the environment from the level of genes to ecosystems, with a focus on photosynthesis, the global carbon cycle, and the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to rising atmospheric CO₂

Chris Simon

Molecular evolution and systematics using insects as model organisms; rates of evolution related to molecular processes in mitichondrial DNA; reconstructing evolutionary patterns

Morgan Tingley

Global change and quantitative ecology of birds; distributional responses of animals to anthropogenic change (climate, land-use, fire, invasives) and associated conservation needs; hierarchical modeling and ecological statistics

Stephen Trumbo

Insects, behavior, physiology, carrion ecology

Peter Turchin

Cultural evolution; mathematical models of historical dynamics; evolution of complex human societies; testing theories with large databases

Mark Urban

Community ecology; eco-evolutionary dynamics; microgeographic adaptation; global climate change; metacommunity ecology

David Wagner

Systematics; phylogenetics, especially of the Lepidoptera; insect behavior and ecology; invertebrate conservation

Jill Wegrzyn

Scientific databasing and visualization; machine learning; semantic web; ontologies; computational biology; plant genomics; comparative genomics

Michael Willig

Behavioral Ecology; biogeography; community ecology; conservation biology; disturbance ecology; macroecology; mammalogy; morphometrics; theoretical ecology

Yaowu Yuan

Genetics, development, and evolution of phenotypic diversity; genetics of adaptation and speciation; plant-pollinator interactions; transposable elements and plant genomics; plant molecular systematics