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Evolutionary Biology
Research ranges from discovering new species of both plants and animals to assessing taxonomy, the molecular genetics of evolution, environmental pressures on evolution, and changes in developmental programs that produce substrates for evolutionary change. Faculty include Drs. Fleming, Gaines, Green, Janos, Lee, Searcy, Tosney, Whitlock, A. Wilson and several adjunct faculty. |
Aphids from Dr. Alex C.C. Wilson's lab |
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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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| 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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| William A. Searcy, Ph.D., Washington (Seattle), 1977. Behavioral ecology, especially animal communication, avian mating systems, and their evolution. Am. Naturalist 159:221–30, 2002. |
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| Kathryn W. Tosney, Ph.D. Stanford 1981, Postdoc Yale, 1981-1984. Developmental neuroscience, evolution of neural and developmental systems. J.Neuro.Res. 21: 410-419; J.Comp.Neurol. 298:413-430; J.Comp.Neurol. 298:413-430 |
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| Barbara A. Whitlock, Ph.D., Harvard, 2000. Evolution, biogeography, and floral morphology of tropical plants. The evolution of cauliflory. Syst. Bot. 26: 420-437. IJPS 164: 35-41. |
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| Alex C. C. Wilson, PhD., Macquarie University, Sydney Australia 2001. Aphid population biology, genome evolution and symbiosis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79: 115-135, 2003. |
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Adjunct Faculty
Judith Lee Bronstein, Ph.D., Michigan, 1986. Evolutionary ecology of mutualisms; plant-insect interactions, especially obligate relationships. (Arizona)
Javier Francisco-Ortega, Ph.D., Birmingham (England), 1992. Origin and evolution of plants endemic to islands. (Fairchild Tropical Garden)
Gerald F. Guala, Ph.D., Florida, 1998. Systematics; biogeography of tropical and subtropical bamboos and other grasses. (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)
John J. Pipoly III, Ph.D., CUNY, New York Botanical Garden, 1986. Systematics of Myrsinaceae, Clusiaceae; anatomy; tree architecture; tropical forest inventory; conservation and sustainable development; ICAD design. (Fairchild Tropical Garden)
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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