Ecosystem Science and Biodiversity
Faculty in the Ecosystem Science and Biodiversity field study various topics in:
- toxicology
- pest management
- management of agroecosystems
- microbiology
- forest systems
- agroforestry
- climate change biology
- ecology, and
- insect systematics and taxonomy.
Madhur Anand
Research interests: global ecological change, sustainability science, forest ecology, ecological modelling, biodiversity
Kari Dunfield
Research interests: environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, soil microbiology, bioremediation
Ernesto Guzman
Research interests: bee biology, bee pathology, bee behaviour, bee genetics, bee ecology
Marc Habash
Research interests: water quality, microbial source tracking, waterborne pathogens, microbial biofilms
Shelley Hunt
Research interests: ecosystem structure and function in managed forests, forest biodiversity, forest plant community dynamics, carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forest litter and woody debris, boreal forest ecology, forest restoration
Stephen Marshall
Research interests: insect diversity, systematics and biology of acalyptrate Diptera, faunistics, taxonomy
Ryan Prosser
Research interests: Mollusk biology, ecotoxicology, ecological risk assessment, aquatic toxicology, soil toxicology
Nigel Raine
Research interests: pollinator conservation, pollinator behaviour, impacts of environmental stressors on bees, pollination ecology
Neil Rooney
Research interests: food web stability, biodiversity environmental assessment, aquaculture, agricultural effects
Jonathan Schmidt
Research interests: insect sensory and hormonal physiology, biological control, Collembolan ecotoxicology, spiders in agroecosystems
Paul Sibley
Research interests: toxicology, ecology, water quality, risk assessment