Featured Research Archive

 

Back to Featured Research Underway

Field

How Will Increasing Climate Variability Change Plant Species Diversity?
Principal investigator: Peter Adler

frog Unifying Biodiversity Theories
Principal Investigator: Andrew Allen
foram The Role of Temperature in the Origin and Maintenance of Biodiversity
Principal Investigator: Andrew Allen

Advancing "Ecology's Big Hot Idea"
Principal Investigator: David Atkinson

Coral The Potential for Coral Reefs to Respond to Future Climate Change
Principal Investigator: Marissa Baskett
Does Biology Matter When Predicting How Animals Will Respond to Climate Change?
Principal Investigator: Lauren Buckley
Map
Where Will Wildlife Move in Changing Environments?
Principal Investigators: Lauren Buckley, Michael Angilletta, Robert Holt, Joshua Tewksbury

Roles of Plant Traits and Nutrient Availability in Predicting Species Invasion
Principal Investigator: Elsa Cleland

Hook

Risk Analysis for Alien Species and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Principal Investigator: John M. Drake

bird Where the Birds Are: Mapping Biodiversity in North America
Principal Investigator: Allen Hurlbert
parasite

Parasites and Food Webs
Principal Investigator: Kevin Lafferty

Is Rarity Linked to Extinction in the Fossil Record?
Principal Investigator: Rowan Lockwood
krill

Quantifying Prey Stocks Needed to Support Top Predators  
Principal Investigator: James R. Lovvorn

Counting the Uncountable: Evaluating Monitoring Programs for Endangered and Harvested Species
Principal Investigator: David Marsh
food web Synthesizing and Analyzing Complex Ecological Networks with Ecoinformatics
Principal Investigator: Neo Martinez
Mountain

Mountains: Understanding the Causes of Biodiversity
Principal Investigator: Christy M. McCain

Using Circuit Theory to Design Connected Landscapes
Principal investigator: Brad McRae
  Feedbacks Between Invasive Pests, Forests and Climate 
Principal Investigator: Thomas O’Halloran
enclosures

The Home-team Dis-advantage: Determining Whether Native Animals Promote Biological Invasion by Exotic Plants
Principal Investigator: John Orrock

forest The Fate of Earth's Primary Production: Eaten Alive or Dead or Not Eaten at All
Principal Investigator: Mark Ritchie
Including Nutritional Composition in Aquatic Food Web Studies  
Principal Investigator: Kim Schulz
coral garden Coral Reef Loss: Determining the Importance of Overfishing and Nutrient Pollution in the Global Decline of Coral Reefs
Principal Investigator: Jennifer E. Smith
turtle Exploring the Effects of Evolutionary History on Global Patterns of Diversity
Principal Investigator: Patrick R. Stephens
Does Increased Bird Diversity Protect Humans Against West Nile Virus?
Principal Investigator: John Swaddle
Why the World Has So Many Species, and What Can Be Done to Prevent Their Extinction
Principal Investigator: David Tilman
arctic pond Interaction Traits and Metacommunity Gene Flow
Principal Investigator: Mark Urban
old filed

Forest Plants in Fragmented and Dynamic Landscapes
Principal Investigator: Mark Vellend


Plant Size and Reproduction
 
Principal Investigator: Jacob Weiner 

 

Why Don't We Understand Old-growth Forests (and Other Slow Systems) Very Well?
Principal Investigator: Kerry Woods
Methane: Toward a Multiscale approach to Reducing Uncertainties in its Emissions
Principal Investigators: Qianlai Zhuang, Ed Dlugokencky, Merrit R. Turetsky, Patrick Crill

Boat Lake Baikal: 60 Years of Monitoring Human Influence on the World's Largest Lake
Principal Investigators: Eugene Zilov, Marianne Moore, Stephanie Hampton
 

Back to Featured Research Underway