Faculty

Mac Alford - Plant systematics, floristics of the southeastern United States and the neotropics   David Beckett - Ecology of freshwater invertebrates, ecology of bats, and biology of caves   Patricia Biesiot - Biochemical adaptation for energy storage in marine animals   Kenneth Curry - Development of fungal diseases   Micheal Davis - Plant community response to stress   Rudolph Ellender - Environmental microbiology and bacterial source tracking   Jodie Jawor - Behavioral endocrinology   Brian Kreiser - Geographic patterns of genetic variation in animals   Kevin Kuehn - Detrital processing and biogeochemical cycles in ecosystems   Frank Moore - Behavior, ecology and physiology of migratory birds   Carl Qualls - Herpetology, conservation biology, evolutionary ecology, phenotypic plasticity, and life history evolution   Jake Schaefer - Fish assemblage dynamics, ecological modeling, fish responses to environmental stress   Shiao Wang - Molecular and biochemical indicators of stress   Donald Yee - Aquatic community ecology; entomology; species diversity; species interactions   Jennifer Walker - Systematics and phylogentics of mollusks Tim McLean - Microbial ecology; algal molecular ecology. Robb Diehl - Computational ecology; movement ecology

Examples of Ongoing Research

• What do migratory birds eat during migration and how does food availability influence their behavior?
• How do plants accumulate toxic metals? What environmental conditions promote metal uptake?
• Which genes are turned on and off in fish and mussels in response to water pollution? Can we use such molecular responses as an indicator of stress?
• What are the important factors in conserving forest habitats and maintenance of gopher tortoise breeding populations?