Section of Ecology, Behavior & Evolution Faculty

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Lin Chao, Professor of Biology
    Evolutionary processes in microbes: bacteria and their viruses.

Elsa Cleland, Assistant Professor of Biology
    Responses of plant communities and ecosystems to global environmental changes; restoration of native plant communities.

David Holway, Associate Professor of Biology
    Ecological basis of invasive species. Argentine Ants, Fire Ants - California.

Joshua Kohn, Professor of Biology, Chair of the Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution
    Plant population biology; mating system evolution; ecological genetics.

Carolyn Kurle, Assistant Professor of Biology
    Changes in community's structure, trophic interactions, and native species composition when ecosystems are modified via human perturbations that result in biodiversity loss, species invasions, habitat alteration, and changes in food availability.

Therese Markow, Professor of Biolog, Amylin Chair in Science Education and Research
    Speciation and adaptation to novel environments; Mating system evolution; Drosophila evolutionary genetics.

James Nieh, Associate Professor of Biology
    Evolution of animal language: symbolic communication in highly social bees; sensory physiology and mechanisms of multi-modal communication; bioacoustics; Cyborg bee project.

Scott Rifkin, Assistant Professor of Biology

Kaustuv Roy, Professor of Biology
    Physical and biotic controls on the distribution and diversity of species in benthic marine ecosystems.

Jonathan Shurin, Associate Professor of Biology
    The causes and consequences of variation in species diversity, the flow of energy between producers and consumers, and the impacts of predators on the functioning of ecosystems.

Christopher Wills, Professor Emeritus of Biology
    Molecular evolution; genetic variation at DNA level.

David Woodruff, Professor of Biology
    Conservation and evolutionary biology; speciation; genetics of endangered species.

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