Welcome

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is committed to excellence in teaching, research, and service. We pursue our scientific and educational missions in integrative biology by discovering new knowledge and by providing a rich learning and mentoring environment for undergraduate and graduate students. We provide our students with analytical and technological skills for a wide range of disciplines, from biology, environmental science, and conservation to law, medicine, and public health. We study organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems as we focus our efforts on ecology, evolution, conservation, and global change. We emphasize academic inquiry in tropical and river/coastal biology. Undergraduate and graduate students collaborate in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about organisms and their environments.

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Students

in the General Ecology course measure plant species diversity in hardwood versus longleaf pine forests in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.

Undergraduate Students Conduct Independent Research

on microhabitat section of Chestnut-backed Antbirds from canopy towers in the rainforest of Barro Colorado Island and Pipeline Road, Panama.

Ph.D. students travel to the Gigante Peninsula

in Central America to study mechanisms and consequences of declines of understory insectivorous birds using a STRI boat to access field sites.

The Richards- Zawacki lab

aims to discover how natural and sexual selection are driving color pattern diversification among populations of this Panamanian frog.