Faculty Associates Research Interests

Faculty Associate	Research Interest	E-mail Address
John G. Blake Biology	Avian ecology: factors influencing the distribution and abundance of birds in tropical and temperate habitats; effects of resource variation on bird populations.	blakej@msx.umsl.edu
Godfrey R. Bourne Biology	Behavioral ecology and tropical biology.	bourne@jinx.umsl.edu
James F. Campbell Business Administration	GIS for business and conservation.	campbell@umsl.edu
David B. Clark Biology	Tropical forest ecology.	dbclark@sloth.ots.ac.cr
Deborah A. Clark Biology	Tropical forest ecology, tree life history patterns, plant demography, landscape ecology, edaphic and climatic controls of tropical forest productivity, carbon cycling at ecosystem and global scales.	dclark@sloth.ots.ac.cr
Andrew Hurley History	Environmental history of Urban Growth.	ahurley@umsl.edu
Elizabeth A. Kellogg Biology	Evolution of plant development; systematics of the grass family; evolution of genes and genomes.	tkellogg@umsl.edu
Bette A. Loiselle Biology	Tropical conservation biology; plant-bird interactions.	loiselle@umsl.edu
Robert J. Marquis Biology	Plant evolutionary ecology: Role of herbivores in the evolution of plant traits; evolution of defense and tolerance to herbivores; constraints on carbon and nutrient movement in plants and their significance for plant-herbivore interactions; effect of forest management on insect herbivore populations; tritrophic interactions; tropical ecology.	robert_marquis@umsl.edu
Patrick L. Osborne Biology	Tropical limnology, wetland ecology, watershed management.	osbornepl@msx.umsl.edu
Patricia G. Parker Biology	Ecology and evolution of social behavior; applying principles of population biology and behavioral ecology to wildlife conservation.	pparker@umsl.edu
Robert E. Ricklefs Biology	Evolution and ecology of avian life histories, particularly energetics, development and parental care of chicks, aging, and immune system function; multivariate and ecomorphological analyses of community structure; historical development of regional biotas; biogeograhy of the West Indies; molecular phylogenetics of birds and their blood parasites.	ricklefs@umsl.edu
David B. Robertson Political Science	Environmental politics.	daverobertson@umsl.edu
Eduardo Silva Political Science	Politics of conservation and sustainable development.	e.silva@umsl.edu
Peter F. Stevens Biology	Systematics of flowering plants, especially those in the Old World Tropics.	stevensp@mobot.org
Zuleyma Tang-Martinez Biology	Bahavioral ecology, social behavior and communication of mammals, reptiles and spiders.	zuleyma@umsl.edu
Patricia Wright Anthropology	Paleoethnobotany of the Americas.	pjwright@umsl.edu

Missouri Botanical Garden

Faculty Associate	Research Interest	E-mail Address
Bruce H. Allen	Botany: A revision of the Dicnemonaceae (Musci); Peristone variations in the genus Fissidens: an SEM study.	bruce.allen@mobot.org
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz	Systematics and phylogeny of the Brassicaceae.	ihsan.al-shehbaz@mobot.org
Thomas B. Croat	Systematics and ecology of Araceae of Central America.	thomas.croat@mobot.org
Marshall R. Crosby	Systematics of tropical and temperate mosses.	marshall.crosby@mobot.org
Peter Goldblatt	Systematics and cytogenetics of Iridaceae.	pgoldblatt@hotmail.com
Michael H. Grayum	Systematics of Araceae; Flora of Costa Rica.	grayum@mobot.org
Peter C. Hoch	Systematics and evolution of Onagraceae.	peter.hoch@mobot.org
Peter M. Jørgensen	Floristics and plantgeography of the Andes. Catalogues of Ecuadorian and Bolivian plants. Systematics of Neotropical Passifloraceae, Santalaceae, and Olacaceae.	peter.jorgensen@mobot.org
Timothy J. Killeen	Dendrological inventory of Pilón Lajas, Beni, Bolivia.
Robert Magill	Bryophyte systematics, evolution and biogeography, with a current emphasis on mosses of Africa.	bob.magill@mobot.org
David A. Neill	Flora of lowland Ecuador; systematics of Leguminosae.	david.neill@mobot.org
Peter H. Raven	Systematics and evolution of Onagraceae; tropical forest conservation.	peter.raven@mobot.org
P. Mick Richardson	Biochemical plant systematics and cladistics.	mick.richardson@mobot.org
George E. Schatz	Systematics of Annonaceae; Flora of Madagascar.	george.schatz@mobot.org
M. Carmen Ulloa Ulloa	Floristics and biogeography of Andean plants. Systematics of tropical Andean Berberidaceae and Neotropical Santalaceae and Olacaceae.	carmen.ulloa@mobot.org
Henk van der Werff	Systematics of Lauraceae.	henk.vanderwerff@mobot.org
James L. Zarucchi	Systematics of Fabaceae and Apocynaceae.	james.zarucchi@mobot.org

Saint Louis Zoo

Faculty Associate	Research Interests	E-mail Address
Cheryl S. Asa	Comparative reproductive biology.	asa@slu.edu

Smithsonian Institution

Faculty Associate	Research Interests	E-mail Address
Terry L. Erwin	Tropical entomology and conservation biology.	erwin.terry@nmnh.si.edu

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Faculty Associate	Research Interests	E-mail Address
Eldredge Bermingham	Molecular population genetics and evolutionary biology; historical biogeograpy and molecular systematics of neotropical fishes and Caribbean island birds.	eb@naos.si.edu

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

Faculty Associate	Research Interests	E-mail Address
Mario Cohn-Haft	Ecology and Systematics of Amazonian Birds.	mario@buriti.com.br

Washington University

Faculty Associate	Research Interests	E-mail Address
Stanton Braude	Demography and social behavior of social rodents in Africa.	braude@biology.wustl.edu

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"It must be remembered that within the tropics, the wild luxuriance of nature is not lost..... Epithet after epithet was found too weak to convey to those who have not visited the intertropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind experiences.....The land is one great wild, untidy, luxuriant hothouse, made by Nature for herself ."

Charles Darwin, 1845. The Voyage of the Beagle.