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Karen Abbott
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Phone:
(515) 294-0648
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Theoretical population and community ecology, population dynamic modeling, spatial ecological theory. |
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Ralph Ackerman
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Phone:
(515) 294-8676
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Physiological, ecological and biophysical aspects of heat and mass exchange between organisms and their environments, with current research on the ecological physiology and biophysical ecology of reptile and avian eggs and embryos. |
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Dean Adams
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Phone:
(515) 294-3834
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Ecological and evolutionary morphology; understanding ecological forces responsible for the evolution of community structure; species interactions; quantitative morphology (morphometrics). |
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Heidi Asbjornsen
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Phone:
(515) 294-7703
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Research interests include forest ecosystem ecology, restoration ecology, and ecosystem management, focusing on the role of anthropogenic and natural disturbance in both temperate and tropical ecosystems. |
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Lyric Bartholomay
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Phone:
(515) 294-0594
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My research focuses on the interrelationships, particularly at the molecular level, among mosquitoes, disease agents, and the external environment, with the ultimate goal of developing strategies to control those interactions and prevent disease transmission. Arboviruses, such as Dengue and Yellow Fever viruses, have a significant impact on global public health and economics and have recently entered the limelight in the United States with the emergence of West Nile virus. High throughput, technologies/methodologies will be used in the laboratory to better understand the capacity of the mosquito to respond to virus infection and the capabilities of the pathogen to circumvent that response. But just as the virus must contend with the environment within the mosquito in order to persist, so must the mosquito contend with external factors dictated by the environment in which she lives. In fact, a great number of factors must coalesce in order for a mosquito-borne disease to be transmitted between hosts. Studies of this — the ecology of vector-borne disease — are on-going in the lab and include a long-term mosquito/arbovirus surveillance project. |
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Julie Blanchong
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Phone:
(515) 294-9699
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I am a wildlife ecologist primarily interested in the causes and consequences of disease in wildlife populations. My research focuses on characterizing relationships between host ecology and the transmission and distribution of disease, identifying ecological and environmental factors associated with disease outbreaks, and evaluating impacts of disease to wildlife populations. |
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Bonnie Bowen
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Phone:
(515) 294-6391
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Evolutionary processes and genetic structure in natural populations of animals, particularly behavioral ecology of birds, and conservation genetics of freshwater mussels. |
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Anne Bronikowski
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Phone:
(515) 294-7170
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Evolutionary genetics and population biology of life history variation in snakes. The evolution and persistence of senescence and the menopause in mammals. |
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Cinzia Cervato
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Phone:
(515) 294-7583
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Neogene marine plankton evolution and cladistics, biostratigraphy,
archaeological geology, sedimentary geochemistry, geoscience education, data management.
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Lynn Clark
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Phone:
(515) 294-8218
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Systematics, morphology, and evolution of grasses, in particular the woody bamboos. |
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William Clark
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Phone:
(515) 294-5176
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Estimation of population parameters from recapture data, integration of dispersal behavior into metapopulation modeling, and the effects of habitat fragmentation on predators. |
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Greg Courtney
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Phone:
(515) 294-4017
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Insect systematics and aquatic entomology, with research on the morphology, systematics and ecology of aquatic insects. |
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(515) 294-4752
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Biological processes mediating carbon and mineral transformations in streams and wetlands. Particular interest in the fate and effects of non-point source pollutants in streams and wetlands. |
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Brent Danielson
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(515) 294-5248
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Effects of complex landscapes on the dynamics and structure of animal communities |
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Stephen Dinsmore
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Phone:
(515) 294-1348
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Avian population ecology, including capture-recapture, estimation, population modeling, and other similar topics, especially as they apply to non-game birds and endangered species. |
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Diane Debinski
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(515) 294-2460
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Current research includes 1) biogeographic analysis of species/habitat relationships, using GIS and remotely sensed data, 2) restoration of prairie communities, 3) habitat fragmentation in agroecosystems, and 4) global climate change. |
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Jack Dekker
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(515) 294-8229
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Biology of weeds, including the biodiversity and population genetic structure of weeds; seed dormancy and germinability-dormancy states in soil seed banks. Biology of adaptive traits of weeds in agroecosystems. |
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Philip Dixon
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Phone:
(515) 294-2142
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Statistical ecology, population modeling, as well as rare plant biology and management. |
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John Downing
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Phone:
(515) 294-8880
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Limnology, aquatic ecology, biogeochemistry, restoration ecology, landscape ecology and conservation of aquatic biodiversity. Watershed studies analyze the influence of the chemical and physical characteristics of aquatic ecosystems on phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthos and fish. Conservation studies emphasize freshwater mussels. |
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Sue Fairbanks
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(515) 294-7315
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Ecology and behavior of reintroduced wildlife populations, and the role of mother-daughter associations in ungulate species with rudimentary social organization. |
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Aaron Gassmann
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Phone:
(515) 294-7623
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Plant-insect and tritrophic interactions, evolution of resistance by insects to transgenic crops, agroecology. |
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Mark Gleason
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(515) 294-0579
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Ecology and epidemiology of diseases of fruit and vegetable crops, with emphasis on developing and evaluating more cost-efficient, environmentally friendly management tactics. |
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William Graves
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Phone:
(515) 294-0034
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The ecology and physiology of rare, woody plants, particularly taxa associated with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, species native in disjunct habitats, and plants that evoke interesting questions regarding mechanisms of stress resistance. |
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Richard Hall
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(515) 294-1453
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Applied ecology as it relates to managing trees for various uses, with special emphasis on genetic variation in the response to competition. |
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W. Stan Harpole
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Phone:
(515) 294-7253
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Community ecology, species diversity, biodiversity theory, mathematical and statistical modeling. |
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Thomas Harrington
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Phone:
(515) 294-0582
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Mycology and forest pathology with broad interests in evolutionary biology and ecology, emphasizing insect-fungus interactions and the genetics, systematics and evolution of fungi. |
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Matthew Hill
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Phone:
(515) 294-7522
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Research interests include the study of hunter-gatherer diet and subsistence behavior, mobility strategies, and site structure, using archaeological data and methods and centering on the behavior of late Ice Age Paleoindian hunter-gatherers on the northwestern Great Plains and in the western Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi River Valley. |
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Kirsten Hofmockel
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Phone:
(515) 294-2589
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Microbial ecology with an emphasis on carbon and nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, mechanisms driving decomposition and nutrient cycling responses to climate change, biogeochemistry, plant microbe interactions. |
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Tom Isenhart
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(515) 294-8056
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Dr. Isenhart's research interests include stream ecosystem management, design and establishment of landscape buffers to improve the environmental efficiency of agriculture, biogeochemistry of nitrogen in agroecosystems, transformation and fate of nitrate in freshwater systems, and the physical and chemical interactions between groundwater and surface water. |
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Fred Janzen
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(515) 294-4230
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Molecular and experimental evolutionary ecology, primarily of reptiles; the relative impact of environmental and genetic factors on variation in and evolution of adaptive physiological traits like sex-determining mechanisms; the genetic structure of and relationships among individuals, populations, and higher taxa. |
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Thomas Jurik
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(515) 294-5617
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The relationship of physiological and morphological characteristics of component species to the structure of prairie, wetland, forest, and agricultural plant communities; functional ecology; sustainable agriculture. |
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Mark Kaiser
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(515) 294-8871
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Statistical modeling of ecological relations. Current work includes the use of Markov Random Field specifications of conditional distributions in random parameter models that require dependence, such as in repeated measures and spatial applications. |
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Clint Kelly
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(515) 294-8511
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Sexual selection and the evolution of mating systems and strategies, meta-analysis of literature to quantitatively review topics in behavioural ecology. |
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Kenneth Koehler
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(515) 294-4181
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Recent projects include applications of logistic regression models in testing theories of reaction of emergent wetland plant species to changing water levels, assessing effects of habitat on nest predation and abundance of bird species, cluster analysis of habitats, and uses of classification trees. |
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Rolf Koford
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(515) 294-3057
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Population ecology and behavior of grassland birds, both game and non-game. |
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Dennis Lavrov
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Phone:
(515) 294-9091
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Molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and comparative genomics; use of gene order data for the analysis of ancient relationships; evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA with a special emphasis on arthropods and sponges; bioinformatics. |
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Matt Liebman
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Phone:
(515) 294-7486
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Weed ecology and management; plant population and community ecology; seedbank dynamics; effects of diversified cropping systems. |
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Roger Maddux
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Phone:
(515) 294-8134
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Research interests include relation algebras, logic, combinatorics, computer science, and mathematical biology. |
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Kirk Moloney
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Phone:
(515) 294-6415
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Research interests include the spatial dynamics of ecological systems; relationships between ecological pattern and process; disturbance ecology; ecology of invasions; and the application of ecological knowledge in the process of restoration. |
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John Nason
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(515) 294-2268
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Population and conservation genetics of plants and their associated insect herbivores and pollinators. Topics of particular interest include the reproductive dynamics, genetic structuring, and phylogeography of obligate pollination mutualisms (e.g., figs and fig wasps), as well as the reproductive and genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in animal-dispersed plant species, especially tropical trees. |
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Sarah Nusser
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Phone:
(515) 294-9773
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Interests include use of statistics in natural sciences, with particular emphasis on survey statistics for natural resource inventories and statistical methods for population and community ecology. |
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Forrest Nutter
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Phone:
(515) 294-8737
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Population ecology, population growth modeling, disease assessment, and crop loss modeling. |
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Matthew O'Neal
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(515) 294-8622
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Research is focused on developing ecologically and economically sustainable insect pest management programs for soybean. |
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Dave Otis
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Phone:
(515) 294-7639
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Population biology, and development and evaluation of statistical techniques for use in field ecology. Recent projects have involved construction of population models for harvest management of mourning doves, development of new statistical techniques for analysis of habitat selection studies, and breeding ecology of bobwhite quail. |
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Clay Pierce
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Phone:
(515) 294-3159
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Growth, production, habitat, and community relationships of fish in river, lake, and reservoir environments. |
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John Pleasants
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Phone:
(515) 294-7204
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Pollination ecology, effects of GMO plants on native insect species and potential for gene flow between GMO plants and native plants. |
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Jill Pruetz
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(515) 294-5150
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Behavior of non-human primates, including the influence of ecology on primates and early human feeding, ranging and social behavior. Dr. Pruetz works in Senegal and sites in the Neotropics. |
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Michael Quist
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(515) 294-9682
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Ecology and management of fishes in lake, reservoir, stream, and large river systems; relative influences of abiotic and biotic processes on fish population dynamics and fish assemblage structure. |
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James Raich
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(515) 294-5073
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Terrestrial ecosystems ecology; plant-soil-atmosphere carbon exchanges; nutrient cycling; human and environmental controls over ecosystem processes within forests, grasslands, and agricultural landscapes. |
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Kevin Roe
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Phone:
(515) 294-8332
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Research interests include the conservation genetics, systematics, and evolution of freshwater organisms, including fishes, molluscs, and crustaceans. |
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Lisa Schulte
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(515) 294-7339
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Ecosystem patterning and dynamics, with special emphasis on long time periods and broad spatial scales, as well as sustainable land management. |
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Richard Schultz
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(515) 294-7602
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Agroforestry, with special emphasis on riparian zone management systems and their ability to diversify the landscape, provide wildlife habitat, and yield diverse products for the landowner. |
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Jeanne Serb
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(515) 294-7479
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Molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and evolution of developmental pathways; identification of genetic and environmental factors involved in complex trait evolution, with an emphasis on eyes and life history in molluscs. |
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Robert Shumaker
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(515) 294-7139
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Primate cognition; use of symbol-based language by orangutans. |
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Elwynn Taylor
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(515) 294-7839
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Physical adaptations, weather conditions, and migration of economically important insects. Color, form, and function of plants and animals are studied from a standpoint of thermal balance, water economy, and energy cost. |
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Nicole Valenzuela
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(515) 294-1285
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Ecology and evolution of vertebrate sex determination. Ecological and evolutionary genomics of phenotypic plasticity. Life history evolution, conservation, and ecological genetics of turtles. |
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Arnold van der Valk
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Phone:
(515) 294-4374
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Wetland ecology, especially vegetation dynamics of freshwater wetlands, natural re-vegetation of restored wetlands, creation and restoration of tree islands in the Everglades, and effectiveness of restored wetlands as sinks for nutrients in agricultural runoff. |
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Carol Vleck
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(515) 294-8646
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Physiology, ecology and behavior of vertebrates, especially the interaction of reproduction, energetics, aging and environmental stressors, with particular emphasis on field studies in birds. |
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David Vleck
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Phone:
(515) 294-4243
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Physiological ecology of animals, energetics of reproduction and locomotion, water balance in desert organisms. |
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Robert Wallace
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Phone:
(515) 294-0367
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Plant phylogeny reconstruction, in particular for succulent plant groups including Cactaceae, Aizoaceae, and other families in Order Caryophyllales (Centorspermae); molecular systematics and its use in studying the evolution, adaptation, and biogeography of plants. |
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Alan Wanamaker
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Phone:
(515) 294-5142
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My research is largely devoted to documenting and understanding past climates, especially in the North Atlantic Ocean during the last millennium. Additionally, I am interested in developing new geochemical tools and proxy records for paleoceanographic applications. I primarily utilize light stable isotopes in biogenic carbonates. I am an active sclerochronologist who mostly works with molluscs. |
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Jonathan Wendel
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Phone:
(515) 294-7172
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Evolutionary divergence between populations and species, speciation mechanisms, and molecular evolution. |
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Brian Wilsey
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Phone:
(515) 294-0232
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The ecology and restoration of grasslands, especially the effects of disturbance and species diversity on community and ecosystem processes, such as primary productivity, CO2 uptake and storage (an important component of global change), and herbivore consumption. |
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