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OSU Ecology Faculty listed alphabetically
Name	Department	Interests
Bruce Battles	Geography
Richard Berberet	Entomology and Plant Pathology
Terry Bidwell	Plant and Soil Sciences	Fire effects, successional models, alternative enterprises
Joseph Bidwell	Zoology	Contaminant effects on benthic macroinvertebrates. Energetic costs of contaminant exposure.
John Burd	Entomology and Plant Pathology
Robert Burnap	Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Tracy Carter	Zoology	Conservation; Bison ecology
Carlos Cordova	Geography
Craig Davis	Zoology	Avian Ecology and Management, Effects of human-impacted environments on avian species, terrestrial and aquatic invertebrate ecology, foraging ecology
Anthony Echelle	Zoology	Conservation ecology of fishes in arid lands
Norman Elliott	Entomology and Plant Pathology	Insect ecology, emphasizing the effects of ecological heterogeneity at multiple scales on insect populations and communities in agroecosystems
David Engle	Plant and Soil Sciences	Fire ecology and management; wildfire effects on rangelands; ecology of managed rangeland landscapes; rangeland vegetation management; influences of rangeland management on biodiversity
Babu Fathepure	Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	Environmental microbiology of pollutant degradation in soil and subsurface environments, microbial ecology, diversity-function in aquifer and animal waste lagoon
William Fisher	Zoology	Stream ecology, fish ecology, fisheries science, GIS applications in fish and wildlife
Stanley Fox	Zoology	Evolutionary & behavioral ecology; community ecology; herpetology; lizard social behavior; UV-B on amphibians; local and landscape level forest habitat effects on herp communities
Samuel Fuhlendorf	Plant and Soil Sciences	Landscape ecology, plant-animal interactions, wildlife habitat ecology, community ecology, rangeland monitoring, landscape management, ecological succession, grassland ecology, woody-herbaceous interactions
Kristopher Giles	Entomology and Plant Pathology	Biological control of arthropods, tritrophic interactions, Integrated Pest Management in cropping systems
Fred Guthery	Forestry	Ecology and management of game birds
Stephen Hallgren	Forestry	Water transport in plants, components of water use efficiency, carbon allocation to roots, root anatomy & function, fire and vegetation dynamics in the Cross Timbers, ecology of seed germination
Eric Hellgren	Zoology	Population ecology of mammals & other vertebrates w/emphasis on effects of anthropogenic disturbance on animal ecology
William Henley	Botany	Stress physiology of algae and cyanobacteria: photosynthesis, light, temperature, salinity, nutrients; aquatic macrophytes and water quality. See the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory
David (Chip) Leslie	Zoology	Terrestrial vertebrate ecology, particularly conservation and recovery of endangered species and effects of habitat alteration, and nutrition
Dale Lightfoot	Geography	Cultural Ecology, Agriculture and Water Technology, Remote Sensing, Resource Management, Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East
Thomas Lynch	Forestry	Forest sampling and growth modeling
Suzanne McAlister	Botany	Bryophyte ecology
Karen McBee	Zoology	Cytogenetics and molecular genetics of mammals and reptiles; the consequences of genetic change as a result of both environmental alteration and evolutionary processes; genetic and evolutionary responses to environmental stressors; environmental toxicology; genetic toxicology using in situ indicators.
Craig McKinley	Forestry
Robert Miller	Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	Genetics, Viruses of Microorganisms, Environmental and Biological Stress, Microbial Molecular Biology, Evolution of Deep-Subsurface Bacteria. See the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory
Michael Myers	Geography	Cultural and Political Ecology
Michael Palmer	Botany	Plant ecology, floristics, biodiversity, biogeography, vegetation, quantitative methods
Thomas Phillips	Entomology and Plant Pathology	Insect ecology, behavior and evolution, particularly chemical ecology of insect-insect and insect-plant interaction involving pheromones and other semiochemicals. I have an interest in population genetics, particularly related to local adaptation.
Mahesh Rao	Geography	The use of GIS and Remote sensing technologies for natural resource conservation
William Ross	Forestry
Steven Schwartz	Zoology	All aspects of the biology of temporary aquatic habitats, the biology of the cladoceran Daphnia
James Shaw	Zoology	Ecology, behavior, and conservation of large mammals, specifically American bison
Kevin Shufran	Entomology and Plant Pathology	Natural enemies, molecular ecology, plant-insect interactions.
Stephen Stadler	Geography	Applied climatology (including land/atmosphere interactions), remote sensing, physical geography
Larry Talent	Zoology	Effects of environmental contaminants on physiology and life history parameters of vertebrates, particularly reptiles; The effects of proximate environmental factors on phenotypic plasticity of life history traits; wildlife toxicity
Charles Tauer	Forestry	Tree population biology and forest genetics
Dale Toetz	Zoology	Aquatic productivity, nitrogen cycling, wetlands
Donald Turton	Forestry	Forest hydrology; the effects of land management on the quantity and quality of water, including acid deposition, biogeochemistry, the effects of timber harvest on sediment and nutrient yields, erosion and watershed modeling, the effects of forest and rural road erosion and the application of GPS and GIS to collect and analyze spatial data.
Ronald Tyrl	Botany	Flora and vegetation of Oklahoma, toxic plants, agrostology
Ronald Van Den Bussche	Zoology	Molecular systematics (primarily of mammals) and the interface of molecular genetics and wildlife management
Thomas Wikle	Geography	Natural resources, particularly in US National Parks
Dana Winkelman	Zoology	Evolution and ecological determinants of life history strategies in fishes and the effects of individual life histories on population dynamics
Robert Wittwer	Forestry

Range Ecology

Conservation Ecology

Wildlife Ecology

Mathematical Ecology

Fisheries Ecology

Microbial Ecology

Restoration Ecology

Plant Ecology

Animal Ecology

Forests

Landscape Ecology

Deserts

Marine Ecology

Grasslands

Physiological Ecology

Freshwater Ecology

Wetlands

Community Ecology

Population Ecology

Behavioral Ecology

Climate Change

Chemical, molecular, or genetics

Ecosystems / Biogeochemistry