Affiliated Researchers: Ecology

Affiliates are Penn Staters who have a connection to or an interest in the work of the Institute of Energy and the Environment.

Displaying 130 search result(s) for Ecology.

David Hughes


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Ants, Formicidae, Parasites, Ant, Fungi

David Toews


Assistant Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Songbirds, Hybrid Zone, Setophaga, Genomics, Plumage

Gary Felton


Department Head and Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Herbivory, Insecta, Zea Mays, Herbivores, Helicoverpa Zea

Autumn Sabo


Assistant Professor of Biology, Penn State Beaver
Top research keywords: Deer, Temperate Forests, Herbivory, Temperate Forest, Understory

Jill Hamilton


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Picea, Hybrid Zone, Pinus Torreyana, Picea Glauca, Climate

Margot Kaye


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Fire History, Deciduous Forests, Pinus Ponderosa, Climate, Pine

Jason Keagy


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Mating Success, Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteus Aculeatus, Smegmamorpha, Sexual Selection

David A.W. Miller


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Amphibians, Salamander, Amphibian, Branta Canadensis, Nest

Kim Steiner


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Oak, Quercus, Seedling, Quercus Rubra, Acer Rubrum

Travis Flohr


Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Learning, Online Courses, Pedagogy, Design For Environment, Life Events

Rebecca Bliege Bird


Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Hunting, Hunters, Foraging, Desert, Deserts

Tracy Langkilde


Verne M. Willaman Dean, Eberly College of Science
Top research keywords: Lizard, Lizards, Sceloporus Undulatus, Fire Ants, Ant

Duane Diefenbach


Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology
Top research keywords: Deer, Odocoileus Virginianus, Harvest, Lynx Rufus, Hunters

Laura Leites


Associate Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Climate, Quercus, Oak, Pseudotsuga Menziesii, Pinus Ponderosa

Isabella Cattadori


Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Helminths, Parasites, Myxoma Virus, Rabbits, Infections

Tong Qiu


Assistant Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Phenology, Climate Change, Urbanization, Climate, Fecundity

Christian Huber


Assistant Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Population, Mutation, Drosophila Melanogaster, Genetic Variation, Genomics

Marc E. McDill


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Harvest, Forest Management, Planning, Oak, Quercus

Prem Kandel


Postdoctoral Scholar Hockett Lab

Ed Rajotte


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Malus, Orchard, Orchards, Apples

Karl Zimmerer


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Agrobiodiversity, Bolivia, Food, Peasant, Livelihood

Daniel E. Walters


Assistant Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Administrative Law, Doctrine, Market Reaction, Transnational Law, Supreme Court

Dave Biddinger


Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Bee, Malus, Orchards, Orchard

Clare Randolph


Ph.D. Student

Bradley Cardinale


Department Head and Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Biomass, Ecosystems, Species Richness

Katriona Shea


Alumni Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Carduus Nutans, Carduus, Carduus Acanthoides, Invasive Species, Seed

Mary Ann Bruns


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Soil, Manure, Dairy Manure, Odorants, Bacteria

Ottar Bjornstad


Distinguished Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Synchrony, Epidemics, Population Dynamics, Disease Outbreaks, Arvicolinae

Natalie Boyle


Assistant Research Professor, Genomics of Social Behavior and Bee Health, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Osmia Lignaria, Bee, Megachilidae, Pollination

Bronwen Powell


Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Forests, Food, Diet, Morocco, Tanzania

Denice Wardrop


Research Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Wetlands, Wetland, Headwater, Watershed, Mid-Atlantic Region

William Driscoll



Top research keywords: Altruism, Allelopathy, Sociobiology, Eutrophication, Haptophyta

Julian D. Avery


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Bird, Sialia Sialis, Nestling, Lizard, Nestlings

Melissa Kreye


Assistant Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Private Forest, Private Land, Landowner, Private Forestry, Private Lands

Jon Sweetman


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management

Jennifer Baka


Associate Professor and John T. Ryan, Jr. Faculty Fellow, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
Top research keywords: Biofuel, Energy, Wasteland, Biofuels, Energy Security

Etya Amsalem


Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Bee, Bombus, Impatiens, Bombus Impatiens

Jason Kaye


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Soil, Cover Crops, Cover Crop, Nitrogen, Pinus Ponderosa

John A. Pecchia


Associate Research Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Mushrooms, Agaricus Bisporus, Mushroom, Agaricus, Composting

Margarita López-Uribe


Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor and Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Bee, Hymenoptera, Apidae, Pollinating Insects