|  These faculty bring their special expertise in the overlapping disciplines of behavioral ecology and genetics, population genetics, population biology, speciation, and physiological and community ecology to bear on the ecology and evolution of behavior and behavioral adaptations, as they combine theoretical modeling with field and laboratory studies. Their research interests include the evolution of communication and the evolutionary basis of phenotypic plasticity and behavior, and the effects of habitat fragmentation. Together with their students they carry out field and laboratory studies in a variety of sites in North America, the Caribbean, the Galapagos, the Colorado Rocky Mountains, and California coast ranges. MU is a member of the Organization for Tropical Studies. With much current evolutionary analysis focused on the generation and interpretation of DNA sequence data, these faculty members have built ongoing collaborations with our molecular geneticists.
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Conservation biology of spiders; biology of spiders; natural history |
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Animal social behavior and communication; behavioral ecology; mechanisms of behavior |
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Ecological and conservation genetics, intraspecific phylogeography |
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Avian ecology, behavior and conservation |
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Ecology and evolution in natural plant populations |
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Sound pattern recognition and localization in frogs and toads: neurobiology, sexual selection and speciation |
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Floral and mating system evolution; systematics; molecular evolution |
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Plant evolution: morphological innovations and diversification in the tropics. |
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Plant systematics, phylogenetics, and genome evolution |
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Evolution and neuroethology of acoustic communication systems |
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Amphibian population regulation; dispersal and persistence in fragmented landscapes; conservation of declining species |
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Invertebrate ecology |
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