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Barnosky, Anthony D.
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 1:20pm.Name of Person:
Anthony D. Barnosky
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Department:
Integrative Biology, Professor
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Anthony Barnosky studies how changes in the physical environment (such as climate change and mountain building) contribute to the evolution of mammal species and faunas at varying temporal and geographic scales. Field aspects of the work include collecting fossils from long stratigraphic sequences that can be well-dated by biostratigraphic, paleomagnetic, or radioisotopic techniques. Lab analyses utilize database and GIS systems to identify faunal changes through space and time; the faunal patterns are then compared with independently identified changes in the physical environment to test various evolutionary and biogeographic predictions.
Simms, Ellen
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:18am.Name of Person:
Ellen Simms
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Department:
Integrative Biology, Professor
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The broad goal of Ellen Simms' research is to understand evolution in natural populations. She is especially interested in the evolutionary implications of ecological interactions between plants and other organisms, including herbivores, pathogens, and mutualists.
Power, Mary
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 3:48pm.Name of Person:
Mary Power
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Department:
Integrative Biology, Professor
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Mary Power's research interests center on river food webs. She has studied interactions among fish, birds, invertebrates, and algae in temperate and tropical rivers. She is particularly interested in how attributes of species affect food web structure and dynamics, and how strengths of these interactions change under different environmental regimes.
Moritz, Craig
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:51pm.Name of Person:
Craig Moritz
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Department:
Integrative Biology, Professor
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Craig Moritz's research centers on the use of molecular approaches to study ecology and evolution and addresses questions including; (1) the use of molecular markers to infer current and historical population processes at various spatial and temporal scales; (2) the effects of historical changes in habitat on current distributions and diversity of faunas, with particular reference to rainforest biotas; and (3) improving the use of molecular information in conservation biology and the development of strategies that recognize evolutionary processes.
Mishler, Brent
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:49pm.Name of Person:
Brent Mishler
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Department:
Integrative Biology, Professor
Research Interests:
Green plants, bryophytes, mosses, systematics, evolutionary biology, ecology, reproductive biology, development, phylogeny, phylogenetics, chloroplast DNA, comparative genomics, classification, species concepts
Lindberg, David
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:37pm.Name of Person:
David Lindberg
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Department:
Integrative Biology, Professor
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David Lindberg's systematic work features the Patellogastropoda, a basal group of gastropod molluscs that figure prominently in ecological studies of rocky shores around the world. They use phylogenetic hypotheses to understand adaptation and evolution in patellacean faunas around the world and through time. He also remains interested in the role of substrates in determining and augmenting community composition. Some effort in his lab is also directed at understanding the evolutionary history of California land snail taxa as well. He also investigate relationships amongst higher molluscan taxa including subclades within the Gastropoda, the "conchiferian" groups, and the phyletic position of the Mollusca on the Tree of Life.
Dawson, Todd
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 2:08pm.Name of Person:
Todd Dawson
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
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Research in Todd Dawson's laboratory focuses on the interface between plants and their environment. The tools of physiological and evolutionary plant ecology and stable isotope biogeochemistry are currently being applied towards the study and interpretation of this interface.
Dawson, Todd
Submitted by cmjones on April 2, 2007 - 1:57pm.Name of Person:
Todd Dawson
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Department:
Integrative Biology, Professor
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Research in Todd Dawson's laboratory focuses on the interface between plants and their environment. The tools of physiological and evolutionary plant ecology and stable isotope biogeochemistry are currently being applied towards the study and interpretation of this interface.
Baldwin, Bruce
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 1:14pm.Name of Person:
Bruce Baldwin
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Department:
Integrative Biology, Professor
Research Interests:
biology, systematics and evolution of vascular plants, floristics, conservation biology, evolutionary processes, historical biogeography, evolutionary ecology
Evolutionary Biogeography
Submitted by cmjones on March 12, 2007 - 1:24pm.Department:
INTEG BI
Course Number:
166
Course Title:
Evolutionary Biogeography
Instructor:
Barnosky
Description:
The goals of the course are to
(a) examine how geographically-linked characteristics of species influence
their potential for evolution and extinction; and (b) provide an overview of
the analytical techniques and applications for studying the interplay between
geographic ranges, environment,
evolution, and extinction. Accordingly, the course begins by examining what
geographic ranges of species are and what controls them. We then will explore
how geographic-range characteristics influence and interact with speciation
and extinction processes. With that foundation, we will examine how species
assemble into communities and how ecological processes govern distributions
at the community and landscape levels, touching on such topics as community
energetics, scaling issues, and the influences of humans on
"natural" ecosystems. The last third of the course will be devoted
to an overview of quantitative analytical techniques that commonly are used
to study interactions between biogeogeographic ranges, evolutionary
processes, extinction, and environmental change.
Units:
4
Offered:
Spring
Course Type:
Undergraduate