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Current Researchers

Ronald Gehl
Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
Soil Science


Spencer Hall
Assitant Professor, Indiana University
Biology

Mathew Leibold
Professor, University of Texas - Austin
Adjunct Professor, Kellogg Biological Station


Sigrid Smith
Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


James Tiedje
University Distinguished Professor, MSU
Crop and Soil Sciences
Past Projects

Principal Investigators

Mathew Leibold (University of Texas)

Amy Downing (Ohio Wesleyan)

Project Title

Collaborative Research: Compensatory VS Amplifying Effects of Community Structure on Ecological Systems in Response to Environmental Fluctuations

Funding Source

National Science Foundation (Award #0235579)

Timeframe

2003 - 2006

Co-Investigators

Jennifer Howeth, Kristen DeVanna, Elizabeth Perrin, Adrienne Mock, Thomas Conrad


Researcher

Robert Ricklefs (University of Missouri @ St. Louis)

Project Title

IRCEB: The Life History-Physiology Nexus--Constraints on the Evolutionary Diversification of Avian Life Histories

Funding Source

National Science Foundation (Award #0212587)

Timeframe

2003 - 2005 (Summers)

Co-Investigators

Suzanne Austin-Bythell (Oregon State University)

Kirk Klasing (University of California @ Davis)

Doug Robinson (Oregon State University)

Tara Robinson (Oregon State University)

Russell Shea (Randolph Macon College)

Martin Wikelski (Princeton University)


Researcher

Stefan Luepold (University of Sheffield, UK)

Project Title

Sperm quality and reproductive success in redwinged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus)

Timeframe

2004 - 2006 (Summers)


Researcher

Carla Caceres (University of Illinois@Urbana-Champaign)

Project Title

FIBR: Causes and Consequences of Recombination

Funding Source

National Science Foundation (Award # 0328516)

Timeframe

2003 - 2008 (Springs)


Researcher

Sally MacIntyre (University of California @ Santa Barbara)

Project Title

Collaborative research: Physical limnology for the parasite ecologist

Funding Source

National Science Foundation (Award #)

Timeframe

2003 - 2006 (Summers)

Co-Investigators

Carla Caceres, Marianne Huebner


Researcher

William DeMott (Purdue University)

Project Title

Collaborative Research: Adaptation of daphniid to digestion resistant resources

Funding Source

National Science Foundation (Award #0235474)

Timeframe

2003 - 2006


Researcher

Heather Reynolds (Indiana University)

Project Title

Collaborative Research: Testing the role of resource heterogeneity and clonal plant integration on plant diversity in grasslands

Funding Source

National Science Foundation (Award #0235767)

Timeframe

2003 - 2007

Co-Investigators

Kay Gross (Michigan State University/KBS)

Gary Mittelbach (Michigan State University/KBS)


William DeMott (Purdue University)

Project Title

RUI: Food quality gradients and exploitation tradeoffs for zooplankton in freshwater lakes

Funding Source

National Science Foundation (Award #9983383)

Timeframe

2000 - 2002


Gregory Dwyer (University of Chicago)

Project Title

The role of host-pathogen coevolution in the population dynamics of an insect-virus interaction

Funding Source

National Science Foundation (Award #0075461)

Timeframe

2000 - 2003


Researcher

Carla Caceres (University of Illinois @ Urbanna-Champaign

Project Title

Collaborative Research: Diapausing eggs and the dynamics of plankton communities

Funding Source

National Science Foundation (Award #9816047)

1999 - 2002