Sentences with phrase «ecology and evolutionary biology»

Degree routes are determined by student interest, although the majority of students complete formal degrees through the department of ecology and evolutionary biology or the mathematics department.

The study of male mating tactics is a core aspect of current behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology.

Robert Pringle, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and co-author of the Science paper, said that the unexpected function of termites in savannas and grasslands suggests that ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound - building creatures could also have important roles in ecosystem health.

Mosquitofish, which are often used to control disease - spreading mosquitos, are probably the most widely introduced freshwater species in the world, according to Eric Palkovacs, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Lemurs vocalize to essentially «groom - at - a-distance» and keep in touch when the group members they're closest with get separated such as when foraging for food, said first author Ipek Kulahci, who received her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton.

A MacArthur Fellow and National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Beth Shapiro runs the Paleogenomics Lab and teaches ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Joy Ward, Ph.D., studies ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

So Tibbetts teamed up with University of Michigan ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student Michael Sheehan to find out whether wasps would remember their former rivals and save themselves the trouble of fighting again.

More than two decades of undergraduate research in ecology and evolutionary biology continues with NSF grant renewal

We've got a big, collegial Department of Biology with faculty specializing in everything from marine biology to molecular genetics, and a great ecology and evolutionary biology group.

It has no obvious role in the success of reproduction or in the number of children, so scientists have long tried to determine why women have orgasms, said a team led by Yale professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Gunter Wagner.

He graduated from SUNY Potsdam in 2014 with a B.S. in Biology with a concentration in wildlife ecology and evolutionary biology.

His PhD research at the University of Oxford used ecology and evolutionary biology to test the importance of dispersal, interspecific competition and habitat for explaining biodiversity patterns in South American birds.

Farrior, who earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University in 2012, completed most of the work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Princeton Environmental Institute with co-author Stephen Pacala, Princeton's Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

«As we move from the temperature we're at to warmer temperatures, it could be a smooth line or temperature change could be bouncing all around,» said Sax, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown.

Dr. Harvey received a B.S. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University, graduating cum laude, with distinction in research.

«It makes sense, because the coast is a much more complicated environment, whereas the open ocean is more homogeneous and the features are more spread out in space and time,» said coauthor Daniel Costa, a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

That's why I love the ongoing experiment in learning being conducted by Margaret Rubega, who teaches ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut and has employed Twitter as a learning and communication tool in her ornithology syllabus.

She spent several years traveling, farming in New Zealand and managing a Salt Lake City bakery before returning to graduate school and earning a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Utah.

Near the end of my fellowship in Cambridge I was lucky to have the opportunity to spend several months with Simon Levin and his group in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University.

Marc Bekoff is an emeritus professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

«It's mostly a matter of not dying,» Stephen Ellner, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University, said with a wry smile.

Richard Prum is a professor of ornithology, ecology and evolutionary biology and head curator of vertebrate zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

Like Hall, many biophysical economic thinkers are trained in ecology and evolutionary biology, fields that do well at breaking down the natural world into a few fundamental laws and rules, just like physicists do.

I met a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology a few weeks ago who told me he Batmanned as the lead singer of a punk band, a career he's maintained alongside science for decades.

«We were able to show clever lemurs — some of our earliest primate relatives — increasing their social centrality as the result of their problem - solving,» said Daniel Rubenstein, Princeton's Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and the lead author on the April 5 paper in the journal Current Biology.

«People tend to think that you don't need to understand interactions beyond pairs,» said Van Savage, a co-author of the paper and a UCLA associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of biomathematics.

According to said Pamela Yeh, the paper's senior author and a UCLA assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, the success rate might have been even greater if the researchers tested higher doses of the drugs.

says Glen MacDonald, a professor of geography, ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA.

«The evolutionary distance between the extinct stilt - legged horses and all living horses took us by surprise, but it presented us with an exciting opportunity to name a new genus of horse,» said senior author Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Paulson, who holds a B.A. in environmental science from Mills College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has studied the Mojave ground squirrel in California, desert springs of Nevada, rainforests of Belize, and butterflies in Colorado.

«Cholera is sort of a poster child for a climate variability - sensitive disease,» said Aaron King, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of mathematics at the University of Michigan.

«Population bottlenecks tied to domestication, rather than recent inbreeding, likely led to an increased frequency of deleterious genetic variations in dogs,» said Kirk Lohmueller, senior author of the research and assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College.

The lead authors are Clare Marsden, a UCLA assistant project scientist in Lohmueller's research group, and Diego Ortega - Del Vecchyo, a UCLA graduate student in Lohmueller's research group; co-authors include Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College.

The biologists are gaining a deep understanding of why certain groups of three antibiotics interact well together, and others don't, said Van Savage, a co-author of the paper and a UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of biomathematics.

«So many bacteria are now so resistant to antibiotics,» said Pamela Yeh, the study's senior author and a UCLA assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

That statement comes from Noah Fierer, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

«More social marmots are less likely to survive over the winter, and they live shorter lives, on average,» said lead author Daniel Blumstein, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

«This is a remarkable case of extreme degeneration of an animal body plan,» said Paulyn Cartwright, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU and principal investigator on the research project.

Along with co-author and wife B. Rosemary Grant, a senior biologist in ecology and evolutionary biology, Grant has studied the finches for 40 years on the arid, rocky islands of Daphne Major and Genovesa in the Galápagos archipelago.

«We now know more about the genetic basis for our evolutionary studies, and this is a highly satisfactory, very exciting discovery after all these years,» said Peter Grant, Princeton's Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, emeritus.

«They look terrifying, but are actually delicate, timid and afraid of you,» said Chapin, a UCLA doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology.

«This kind of information is critical for conservationists trying to decide where to spend limited funds,» said coauthor Donald Croll, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Previous work by coauthor Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, had shown that the bison populations north and south of the ice sheets were genetically distinct by the time the corridor opened.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

Tatar's beetle studies, Carey adds, helped bring the concept of measuring mortality rates at particular ages into the ecology and evolutionary biology literature, which had traditionally focused upon a cruder way of assessing cumulative survival rates, the proportion of a group that reaches a given age.

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Earlier surveys incorrectly labelled ancient savannas as newly deforested regions, said A. Carla Staver, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior author of the study.