We study how organisms interact with each other and their natural world, and how biological processes shape the functioning of the biosphere. Within OEB, we focus primarily on how ecosystems function and how ecological processes drive evolutionary change.
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Colleen Cavanaugh
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Symbioses of bacteria in marine invertebrates from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, methane seeps, and coastal reducing sediments |
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Animals interaction with the environment and each other to affect ecosystem processes at landscape scales. Draw on the fields of community and ecosystem ecology, animal behavior, and remote sensing to explore multiple facets of animal-ecosystem interactions in a spatially explicit manner |
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Charles C. Davis
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Plant diversity and evolution involving the integration of systematics, paleobiology, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology |
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Brian D. Farrell
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Rates, directions and consequences of evolutionary diversification, as well as the marks of evolutionary history on community structure; interactions between various tiny consumers and their hosts, such as beetles and plants or mosquitoes, pathogens and vertebrates |
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Peter R. Girguis
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Physiology and biochemistry of deep sea microorganisms, emphasis on carbon and nitrogen metabolism, to better understand their role in mediating local and global biogeochemical cycles; physiological relationships between microbes and animals in natural systems |
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Noel Michele Holbrook
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Physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological and evolutionary processes |
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Andrew H. Knoll
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Evolution of life, evolution of Earth surface environments, and the relationships between the two; Archean and Proterozoic paleontology and biogeochemistry |
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Paul R. Moorcroft
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Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; mechanistic models of animal movement |
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Benton Taylor
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