Ecology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Priestly Approach to Environmental Theology: Learning to Receive and Give Again the Gifts of Creation 
  • A future for models and data in environmental science. 
  • A keystone ecologist: Robert Treat Paine, 1933-2016. 
  • Agrarian ecotheology 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams. 
  • Beyond neutral science. 
  • Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives. 
  • Biodiversity: climate change or habitat loss - which will kill more species? 
  • Biological diversity: where is it? 
  • Biotic interactions. Genomics and coevolution. 
  • Boechera, a model system for ecological genomics. 
  • Boom-bust dynamics in biological invasions: towards an improved application of the concept. 
  • CO2-enrichment and nutrient availability alter ectomycorrhizal fungal communities. 
  • COMADRE: a global data base of animal demography. 
  • Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally. 
  • Characterization of infectious aerosols in health care facilities: an aid to effective engineering controls and preventive strategies. 
  • Complex trait divergence contributes to environmental niche differentiation in ecological speciation of Boechera stricta. 
  • Considerations of Environmentally Relevant Test Conditions for Improved Evaluation of Ecological Hazards of Engineered Nanomaterials. 
  • Contrasting germination responses to vegetative canopies experienced in pre- vs. post-dispersal environments. 
  • Contributions of North American endophytes to the phylogeny, ecology, and taxonomy of Xylariaceae (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota). 
  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin. 
  • Data archiving. 
  • Data archiving. 
  • Dental topography of platyrrhines and prosimians: convergence and contrasts. 
  • Development and ecology in the time of systems biology. 
  • Development and evolution of adaptive polyphenisms. 
  • Downwelling spectral irradiance during evening twilight as a function of the lunar phase. 
  • Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability. 
  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. 
  • Ecological networks and their fragility. 
  • Ecological transition predictably associated with gene degeneration. 
  • Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity. 
  • Environmental management strategy: four forces analysis. 
  • Environmental science. Aging infrastructure and ecosystem restoration. 
  • Estimating parasite host range. 
  • Estimating seed and pollen movement in a monoecious plant: a hierarchical Bayesian approach integrating genetic and ecological data. 
  • Evidence from individual inference for high-dimensional coexistence: long-term experiments on recruitment response. 
  • Evolution, interactions, and biological networks. 
  • Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics. 
  • Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics. 
  • Factors affecting individual foraging specialization and temporal diet stability across the range of a large "generalist" apex predator. 
  • Foliage shedding in deciduous forests lifts up long-distance seed dispersal by wind. 
  • Global desertification: building a science for dryland development. 
  • Hidden in plain sight: the ecology and physiology of organismal transparency. 
  • Historical biogeography and diversification of truffles in the Tuberaceae and their newly identified southern hemisphere sister lineage. 
  • How are species interactions structured in species-rich communities? A new method for analysing time-series data. 
  • Individual-scale variation, species-scale differences: inference needed to understand diversity. 
  • Inferential ecosystem models, from network data to prediction. 
  • Integration of ecological-biological thresholds in conservation decision making. 
  • Interaction type influences ecological network structure more than local abiotic conditions: evidence from endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale. 
  • Introduced Species, Disease Ecology, and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships. 
  • Invertebrate biomechanics. 
  • Limited hybridization across an edaphic disjunction between the gabbro-endemic shrub Ceanothus roderickii (Rhamnaceae) and the soil-generalist Ceanothus cuneatus. 
  • Lotka's game in predator-prey theory: linking populations to individuals. 
  • Mammals and rainfall: paleoecology of the middle Miocene at La Venta (Colombia, South America). 
  • Methylmercury in the environment: a review of current understanding. 
  • Mimulus is an emerging model system for the integration of ecological and genomic studies. 
  • Modeling seed dispersal distances: implications for transgenic Pinus taeda. 
  • Navigating the complexity of ecological stability. 
  • Neighborhood environment and self-rated health among adults in Southern Sri Lanka. 
  • Olevi Kull's lifetime contribution to ecology. 
  • Olfactory Receptor Subgenomes Linked with Broad Ecological Adaptations in Sauropsida. 
  • On population growth near protected areas. 
  • Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability. 
  • Origin, fate, and architecture of ecologically relevant genetic variation. 
  • Population genetics of tandem trypsin inhibitor genes in Arabidopsis species with contrasting ecology and life history. 
  • Predicted correspondence between species abundances and dendrograms of niche similarities. 
  • Protect the deep sea. 
  • Recipient of the 2014 molecular ecology prize: Johanna Schmitt. 
  • Relative growth of the limbs and trunk in sifakas: heterochronic, ecological, and functional considerations. 
  • Religion, Nature and Modernization in China 
  • Resolving mechanisms of toxicity while pursuing ecotoxicological relevance? 
  • Savanna elephant numbers are only a quarter of their expected values. 
  • Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium. 
  • Stable isotope ratios indicate diet and habitat use in New World monkeys. 
  • Strategies for analysing ecological health data: models of the biological risk of individuals. 
  • Suppression of Clostridium difficile by normal hamster cecal flora and prevention of antibiotic-associated cecitis. 
  • The Precision Problem in Conservation and Restoration. 
  • The adaptive radiation of lichen-forming Teloschistaceae is associated with sunscreening pigments and a bark-to-rock substrate shift. 
  • The ecology of spatial memory in four lemur species. 
  • The effect of salinity upon phototaxis and geotaxis in a larval crustacean. 
  • The evolution of embryonic patterning mechanisms in animals. 
  • The evolution of intrinsic reproductive isolation in the genus Cakile (Brassicaceae). 
  • The first major primate extinction: An evaluation of paleoecological dynamics of North American stem primates using a homology free measure of tooth shape. 
  • The global atmospheric environment for the next generation. 
  • The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts. 
  • The microecology of Clostridium difficile. 
  • The paradise of God renewing religion in an ecological age: renewing religion in an ecological age 
  • The structure of food webs. 
  • Tidal landforms, patterns of halophytic vegetation and the fate of the lagoon of Venice 
  • Toward a trophic theory of species diversity. 
  • Understanding movement data and movement processes: current and emerging directions. 
  • Understanding strategies for seed dispersal by wind under contrasting atmospheric conditions. 
  • Using ecosystem engineers to restore ecological systems. 
  • Yucatan seaweeds from the offshore waters of Isla Mujeres, Ouintana Roo, Mexico 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bernhardt, Emily S., Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor, Duke Science & Society
  • Blaszczak, Joanna, Research Assistant, Ph D Student, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Doyle, Martin, Professor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Division, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Kay, Richard Frederick, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Earth and Ocean Sciences
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Poulsen, John R., Assitant Professor of Tropical Ecology in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Division, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Reynolds, James F., Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Shaver, Liz, Teaching Assistant, Marine Science and Conservation
  • Urban, Dean L., Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment
  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology