Bob Shriver, an assistant professor with the Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Science, is focusing his teaching and research on understanding and predicting how local plant populations’ ...

In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches take ...

Hurricanes, wildfires and influxes of pollutants create disturbances that can put ecological systems under extreme stress. Ecologists had believed that at times like these, competition between species ...

Ready to make a real difference? Put your love for the environment to work with this interdisciplinary program. The minor in restoration ecology is your chance to gain hands-on experience healing ...

The disappearance of their predators in a disturbed ecosystem has turned Atlantic forest sloths from night creatures to day adventurers. Somewhere in this forest you hear, there are sloths. Those ...

Insects, the tiny creatures that quietly sustain much of life on Earth, are disappearing at alarming rates — even in landscapes far removed from direct human activity. A new long-term study led by ...

The Reclamation/Restoration Ecology (RRE) graduate certificate (check sheet) prepares the student to use basic and applied ecological concepts to reclaim and/or ...