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Life cycle ecology of herbaceous plants, with particular reference to the ecology, biogeography, and evolution of seed dormancy and germination
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Seed dormancy and germination ecology, biology of rare plants, and plant geography and ecology of cedar glade and barrens of the southeastern United States |
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Structure and dynamics of ecological populations and communities, life histories within populations and communities, and underlying behavioral mechanisms |
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Population Dynamics, Evolutionary Theory, integrate evolution with ecological dynamics for examining mechanisms that promote differentiation between populations |
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Understanding of plant adaptations and their community consequences, particularly the acquisition of and competition for multiple limiting resources |
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Studies have included flying squirrel ecology, the impact of fire on small mammals such as the white-footed mouse, and the abundance, distribution, and ecology of the Allegheny woodrat |
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Detecting tradeoffs in life-history traits and their effects on the maintenance of sexual reproduction in Marchantia inflexa, sex specific regeneration in Syntrichia caninervis. |
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Conservation of wildlife species |
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Study the ecology and evolution of reproductive and life-history strategies in teleost fishes |
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Address evolutionary questions that are at the interface of genomics, genetics, development, and ecology |
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Behavioral ecology of avian social and reproductive behavior, Extra-pair paternity in birds, Development and function of plumage signals |