ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY GROUP

AT UC-IRVINE

The Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology Group includes faculty from the departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Developmental and Cell Biology and Earth System Science . Research interests are varied and include:

    • Behavioral ecology (Burley, Mooney)

    • Biogeography (Avise, Hawkins)

    • Community ecology (Huxman, A. Martiny, J. Martiny, Mooney)

    • Community-ecosystem interactions (Huxman, Treseder)

    • Conservation Biology (Avise, Bowler, Mooney)

    • Ecosystem ecology/biogeochemistry (Allison, Goulden, Huxman, Randerson,    

                                                                  Treseder)

    • Evolution of plant breeding systems (Campbell, Sakai, Weller)

    • Global change (Allison, Goulden, Huxman, Mooney, Randerson, A. Martiny, J. Martiny,

                               Treseder)

    • Host-parasite interactions (Hawkins, Mooney, Yan)

    • Invasive species biology (Bowler, Huxman Sakai, Weller)

    • Macro-ecology (Hawkins)

    • Microbial ecology (Allison, A. Martiny, J. Martiny, Treseder)

    • Mutualism (Campbell, Mooney)

    • Plant-animal interactions (Campbell, Mooney)

    • Plant ecological genetics (Campbell, Sakai, Weller)

    • Plant ecology (Campbell, Huxman, Mooney, Goulden, Sakai, Weller)

    • Plant genomics and evolution (Gaut, Clegg, Mulligan)

    • Population Ecology (Avise, Bowler, Campbell, Huxman Mooney, Yan )

    • Restoration biology (Bowler, Huxman)

Through a combination of seminars, reading groups, faculty presentations, and graduate level courses, graduate students are exposed to issues especially relevant to their research interests. The collegiality and interactions among faculty, postdocs, and graduate students in this group provide a supportive and dynamic environment for research in plant biology.

There are strong linkages within the department between the Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology Group and the Evolutionary Genetics Research Group and the Global Change Ecology Group and the Center for Environmental Biology.  The Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology Group also maintains close ties with global change ecologists in the Department of Earth System Science.

A wide range of facilities and field sites support the research of the faculty, postdocs, and graduate students in this area, including the UCI Protein Expression Facility, the DNA Core Facility, the UCI Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy facility, the shared molecular facility in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the UCI greenhouse facility, the UCI Arboretum, the Ecological Reserve located on campus, and the numerous natural habitats encompassed in the UC Natural Reserve System. The UC San Joaquin Marsh Reserve is minutes from the campus, and there are many other natural sites in Orange County.

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