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The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) has a broad but unified mission in teaching and research: broad in that the interests of the faculty span many levels of organization encompassing genes, genotypes, phenotypes, populations, communities, and ecosystems; and unified in that each of these levels interacts with all of the others. Detailed appreciation of the processes operating at all levels of organization is fundamental to ecological or evolutionary understanding.
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DEFENSIVE FUNCTIONS AND POTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL CONFLICTS OF FLORAL STICKINESS
(TBD, 2022)Stickiness of vegetative tissues has evolved multiple times in different plant families but is rare and understudied in flowers. While stickiness in general is thought to function primarily as a defense against herbivores, ... -
Data and code from: Does the seagrass microbiome mediate risk of disease?
(2021-03-17)These files contain data and scripts supporting all results reported in Graham et al. paper, "Does the seagrass microbiome mediate risk of disease?". In Graham et al., we found: Microbial communities strongly influence the ... -
Data from: A private channel of nitrogen alleviates interspecific competition for an annual legume
(2021-05-24)The way resource availability predictably alters interspecific interactions and may favor one resource-acquisition strategy over another is critical for understanding context dependency. The ubiquity of nitrogen (N) ... -
Shifts in plant–microbe interactions over community succession and their effects on plant resistance to herbivores
(New Phytologist, 2020)Soil microorganisms can influence the development of complex plant phenotypes, including resistance to herbivores. This microbiome-mediated plasticity may be particularly important for plant species that persist in ... -
Data from: Developmental temperature predicts the adult response to stressors in a free-living passerine
(2019)Early life conditions can have substantial effects on the ways animals respond to stressors as adults. In particular, thermal conditions during development affect juveniles’ responses to stressors, and there is evidence ... -
Transgenerational Consequences of Plant Responses to Herbivory: An Adaptive Maternal Effect
(University of Chicago Press, 2000-12-21)Herbivory has many effects on plants, ranging from shifts in primary processes such as photosynthesis, growth, and phenology to effects on defense against subsequent herbivores and other species interactions. In this study, ... -
The raison d'etre of chemical ecology
(Ecological Society of America, 2015-03-01)Chemical ecology is a mechanistic approach to understanding the causes and consequences of species interactions, distribution, abundance, and diversity. The promise of chemical ecology stems from its potential to provide ... -
Toward a Predictive Framework for Convergent Evolution: Integrating Natural History, Genetic Mechanisms, and Consequences for the Diversity of Life
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-08)A charm of biology as a scientific discipline is the diversity of life. Although this diversity can make laws of biology challenging to discover, several repeated patterns and general principles govern evolutionary ... -
The importance of plant genotype and contemporary evolution for terrestrial ecosystem processes
(Ecological Society of America, 2015-10-01)Plant genetic variation and evolutionary dynamics are predicted to impact ecosystem processes but these effects are poorly understood. Here we test the hypothesis that plant genotype and contemporary evolution influence ... -
The Benefits of Induced Defenses Against Herbivores
(Ecological Society of America, 1997-07-01)Previous explanations for the evolution of induced resistance of plants to herbivory emphasized arguments based on saving costs when allocations to defense were not needed; these models met with limited empirical support. ...
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