Biodiversity frontiers in a rapidly changing world
The most remarkable feature of our planet is the diversity of its life forms, but this biodiversity is threatened by anthropogenic impacts, including climate change and ocean acidification. The Biodiversity Research Cluster will identify global change impacts on biodiversity and suggest ways in which such changes can be ameliorated.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Adams, Keith | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Molecular evolution, genome evolution, and gene expression |
| Aitken, Sally | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | forest genetics, climate change, Climate change, conservation, ecology, genetics, genomics |
| Angert, Amy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant biology; Zoology; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; biogeography; biological responses to climate change; Conservation Biology; Ecological and Ecophysiological Processes; evolutionary ecology; population biology |
| Auger-Methe, Marie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fisheries sciences; Statistics; Zoology; Animal movement; Polar ecology; Statistical Ecology |
| Aviles, Leticia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); Animal behaviour |
| Brauner, Colin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Gas exchange, ion regulation and acid-base balance in fish, Evolution and comparative physiology |
| Burton, Cole | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Forestry sciences; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Animal; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity conservation; Ecological Monitoring; Landscape ecology; Mammal Ecology; Population and Community Ecology; Wildlife Management |
| Carrillo, Juli | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant-insect interactions; Agroecology; Invasive species; evolution; Ecology; community ecology; Environmental Change; Plant evolution; Population Ecology |
| Chan, Kai | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural environment sciences; Human Ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Applied Ethics; Values and Lifestyles; Sustainable Development; conservation finance; Conservation science; cultural ecosystem services; Ecosystem services; environmental assessment; environmental values; incentive programs; payments for ecosystem services; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability science |
| Christensen, Villy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fisheries management; Global change biology; Ecosystem function |
| Coops, Nicholas Charles | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Forestry sciences; Telemetry (Remote Sensing, Radar); Space Techniques; Forestry Technology and Equipment; Plants and Forests |
| Cronk, Quentin Charles | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology to study plant form |
| Davies, Jonathan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Phylogenetics & Biodiversity. Development and application of phylogenetic methods in ecology and conservation biology |
| Dempsey, Jessica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | wrestle with the theoretical and historical-geographical complexities of environmental politics as it shapes and is shaped by the entanglement of state, economy, science, and culture |
| Doebeli, Michael Walter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematical ecology and evolution, evolution of diversity, adaptive speciation, evolution of cooperation, game theory, experimental evolution in microorganisms |
| Fast, Naomi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genomics, single-celled organisms |
| Gergel, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Aboriginal forestry, biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecology, remote sensing, sustainability |
| Germain, Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ecology; evolution |
| Graham, Sean | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant phylogenetics; Plant systematics; Plant evolution; Organelles; Phylogenomics; Land plants; Mycoheterotrophs |
| Harley, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fisheries sciences; Zoology; climate change; community ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; marine algae; marine invertebrates |
| Hunt, Brian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biological oceanography; Biodiversity; Ecosystem function; Ecological impacts of climate change; Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); marine food webs; ecosystem oceanography; plankton dynamics; open ocean; Coastal Ecosystems; climate change impacts on the ocean; salmon ecology; food web nutrition; microplastics; stable isotopes; forage fish; zooplankton; Urban oceans; Thiamine defficiency; Stormwater |
| Irwin, Darren | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Zoology; evolutionary genetics; genomic differentiation; hybridization; ornithology; seasonal migration; speciation |
| Jankowski, Jill | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ecology |
| Keeling, Patrick John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Molecular evolution and cell biology of eukaryotes |
| Kremen, Claire | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural environment sciences; Zoology; agroecological farming systems; Reconciliation of agricultural land use with biodiversity conservation; sustainable landscapes |
| Leander, Brian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant biology; Zoology; Comparative organismal biology; Evolutionary morphology; Evolutionary protistology; Marine biodiversity; Marine invertebrate zoology; Phylogenetic biology; Species discovery |
| Mank, Judith | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | evolution; How selection acts on males and females within a species; How the genome responds to contradictory selection to encode sexually dimorphic traits; Sex chromosomes; Gene regulation; Sexual conflict |
| Mansfield, Shawn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | plant metabolism, cellulose biosynthesis, lignin biosynthesis, wood formation, wood quality, cell wall biochemistry, tree biotechnology, transgenics, Tree biotechnology |
| Marshall, Katie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Animal physiology, environmental stress; Environmental Change; Marine biodiversity; Population Ecology; invertebrates and temperature adaptation |
| Martone, Patrick | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant biology; Protist; Plants; Physiology; Taxonomy and Systematics; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Evolution and Phylogenesis; Biomaterials; Solid Mechanics; Fluid mechanics; biomechanics; Ecology; evolution; Intertidal Zone; Macroalgae; Phycology |
| Matthews, Benjamin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genomics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Zoology; Aedes aeygpti mosquitoes; Arboviral pathogens; Chikungunya; Comparative Physiology; Dengue fever; Genome of mosquitoes; Yellow fever; Zika |
| O'Connor, Mary | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | climate change, ocean, seafood, seagrass, eelgrass, invertebrate, ecology, environment, |
| Otto, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | evolution, mathematical modeling, population genetics, genomic evolution, evolution of sex, yeast experimental evolution, Population genetics and evolutionary biology, yeast |
| Parfrey, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Microbial ecology, microbial diversity, microbiome, protists |
| Pauly, Daniel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | World fisheries; Marine life; Global catch; Management of fisheries; Fish growth and ecophysiology |
| Ramankutty, Navin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural environment sciences; Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; Agriculture; Climate Changes and Impacts; Climate impacts; Environment and Society; Global food security; Land use change; Sustainable agriculture |
| Richards, Jeffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Adaptive significance of the mechanisms coordinating cellular responses to stress |
| Rieseberg, Loren | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Plant biology; adaptation; crops; invasive plants; plant evolutionary biology; speciation; weeds |
| Sayer, Jeffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Forestry sciences; biodiversity; Communities and Livelihoods; Forest policy; Forest conservation in Indonesia; Land-use Change; Reconciling conservation and development in tropical forest landscapes; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Tropical forest conservation |
| Schluter, Dolph | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biological adaptation; Speciation (evolutionary processes); Natural selection and sexual selection; evolution; Origin of species; evolutionary genetics; Adaptive radiation |
| Schwartz, Naomi Beth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social and economic geography; community ecology; Ecosystem Services and Conservation Policy; Environmental Change; GIS; remote sensing; Tropical forest landscapes |
| Srivastava, Diane | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | biodiversity, tropics, Costa Rica, insects, mites, food webs, habitat loss, Community ecology, conservation, how species loss from food webs can affect the way ecosystems function |
| Suttle, Curtis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Fisheries sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Oceanography; Plant biology; Biological Oceanography; Environmental Virology; Marine Environment; Marine Microbiology; Microbial Diversity; Phage; Viral Discovery; Viruses |
| Trites, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | marine mammals, seals, sea lions, whales, dolphins, fisheries competition, population biology, ecology, Marine mamals research centre, biology of marine mammals, population dynamics, bioenergetics, fisheries |
| Williams, Jennifer | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Population ecology; Evolutionary ecology; Ecological mathematical and statistical models; Population Ecology; Ecological and evolutionary processes |
| Wittman, Hannah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sociology and related studies; Farming systems research; food sovereignty; Sustainable agriculture; socio-ecological systems; Agroecology |
| Wolkovich, Elizabeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Forestry sciences; biodiversity; climate change; Conservation science; Global change; Plant communities; Plant invasions; Population and ecosystem ecology; Temporal ecology; Winegrapes |