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Tropical Biology
Research ranges broadly across major scientific issus in the tropics, with research projects on tropical botany, ecosystems, behavior and faunal assemblages. Faculty include Drs. Fleming, Gaines, Green, Herbert, Horvitz, Janos, Lee, Potts, Prince, Sealy, Sternberg, Whitlock and several adjunct faculty. |
| Graduate students collecting in Dr. Horvitz advanced ecology course |
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| Theodore H. Fleming, Ph.D., Michigan, 1969. The relationship between species richness of vertebrate mutualists and their food plants in tropical and subtropical communities differs among hemispheres. Oikos 111: 556-562, 2005. |
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| Michael S. Gaines, Ph.D., Indiana, 1970. Effect of habitat fragmentation and patchiness on the dynamics and genetic structure of small mammal populations. Effects of tree island size and hydroperiod on the population dynamics of small mammals in the Everglades. In Tree Islands of the Everglades, pp. 429–44, eds. F. H. Sklar and A. van der Valk. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002 (with Diffendorfer, Sasso, and Beck). |
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| Steven M. Green, Ph.D., Rockefeller, 1973. Ethology and behavioral ecology, particularly animal communication and social organization, especially of primates and fish; conservation biology. NOAA Tech. Report NMFS 151, 2001. |
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| Thomas J. Herbert, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1970. Plant ecophysiology, leaf movement, canopy structure. Photo. Eng. Remote Sensing 61:89–92, 1995. |
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| Carol C. Horvitz, Ph.D., Northwestern, 1980. Population dynamics of tropical plants: matrix models, stochastic demography, plant-animal interactions, dispersal, invasion. The many growth rates and elasticities of populations in random environments. Am. Naturalist 162:489–502, 2003 (with Tuljapurkar and Pascarella). |
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| David P. Janos, Ph.D., Michigan, 1975. Tropical botany; role of mycorrhizae in tropical forests and agroecosystems; evolutionary ecology of mutuality associations. In Fungi and Environmental Change, vol. 20, pp. 129–62, eds. J. C. Frankland, N. Magan, and G. M. Gadd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
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| Matthew D. Potts, Ph.D., Harvard, 2001. Habitat heterogeneity and niche structure of trees in two tropical rain forests. Oecologia 129:446–74, 2004. |
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| Jeffrey S. Prince, Ph.D., Cornell, 1971. Ecology of marine algae; environmental induction of reproduction; ultrastructure. J. Exp. Biol. 201:1595–1613, 1998. |
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| Kathleen Sullivan Sealey, Ph.D., California, San Diego (Scripps Institution), 1982. Evaluating the use of roving diver and transect surveys to assess coral reef fish assemblages off southeastern Hispaniola. Coral Reefs 21:216–23, 2002. |
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| Leonel Sternberg, Ph.D., California, Riverside, 1978. Uptake of water by lateral roots of small trees and saplings in an Amazonian tropical forest. Isotope Ecology: Plant Cell & Environment 29: 1881-1889, 2006. |
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| Barbara A. Whitlock, Ph.D., Harvard, 2000. Plant evolution; molecular systematics; molecular evolution. Syst. Botany 26:420–37, 2001. |
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Adjunct Faculty
Patti J. Anderson, Ph.D., Florida, 1998. Plant demography and population ecology; economic botany; natural forest management, especially in tropical forests; ethnobotany; conservation and sustainable development. (Fairchild Tropical Garden)
Judith Lee Bronstein, Ph.D., Michigan, 1986. Evolutionary ecology of mutualisms; plant-insect interactions, especially obligate relationships. (Arizona)
Jack B. Fisher, Ph.D., California, Davis, 1969. Plant structure and function; mycorrhizae of native plants. (Fairchild Tropical Garden)
Javier Francisco-Ortega, Ph.D., Birmingham (England), 1992. Origin and evolution of plants endemic to islands. (Fairchild Tropical Garden)
Martine Hossaert-McKey, Ph.D., Pau France, 1988. Evolutionary biology of nursery pollination mutualisms. (CNRS, Montpellier)
Carl E. Lewis, Ph.D., Cornell, 2000. Molecular biology, systematics, and evolution of palms. Plant Syst. Evol. 236:1–17, 2002 (with Doyle). (Fairchild Tropical Garden)
Doyle McKey, Ph.D., Michigan, 1979. Evolutionary ecology of ant-plant mutualisms; evolutionary approaches in ethnobiology. (CNRS, Montpellier)
Joel C. Trexler, Ph.D., Florida State, 1986. Trade-offs and resource allocation; genetic and ecological constraints; spatial ecology and migration; management and restoration at the Everglades. (Florida International)
Scott Zona, Ph.D., Claremont and Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, 1989. Taxonomy, systematics, anatomy, and phytochemistry of tropical plants, especially palms. (Fairchild Tropical Garden) |
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