Faculty | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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

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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.

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Phone: 860.486.3156

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

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Phone: 860.486.9359

Pamela Diggle

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

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Phone: 860.486.4788

Chris Elphick

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

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Phone: 860.486.4547

Carlos Garcia-Robledo

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

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Phone: 860.486.4027

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

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Phone: 860.486.5290

Karolina Heyduk

Evolution of plant adaptations to abiotic stress; evolution of CAM photosynthesis; plant ecophysiology; comparative genomics

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Kent Holsinger

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

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Phone: 860.486.4059

Elizabeth Jockusch

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

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Phone: 860.486.4452

Sarah Knutie

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

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Louise Lewis

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

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Phone: 860.486.6723

Paul Lewis

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

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Phone: 860.486.2069

Gene Likens

Long-term, multidisciplinary studies of forest, stream and lake ecosystems in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

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Phone: 860.486.0367

Margaret Rubega

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

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Phone: 860.486.4502

Eric Schultz

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

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Phone: 860.486.4692

Kurt Schwenk

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

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Phone: 860.486.0351

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

Phone: 860.486.4151

Stephen Trumbo

Insects, behavior, physiology, carrion ecology

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Phone: 203.236.9878

Mark Urban

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

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Phone: 860.486.6113

David Wagner

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

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Phone: 860.486.2139

Jill Wegrzyn

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

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Phone: 860.486.8742

Michael Willig

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

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Phone: 860.486.1455

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

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Phone: 860.486.4059