The Great Backyard Bird Count! Feb 12-15 

Tour the Hutcheson Memorial Forest this Winter & Spring 

The 5th Annual Society for Ecological Restoration Mid-Atlantic Conference is coming! Friday, February 19, 2010, Cook Campus Center. Read More Call for Posters 

Peter Morin and Herman Verhoef  edit Community Ecology: Processes, Models, and Applications.

How did endosymbionts become organelles? Gross &  Bhattacharya in Nature Reviews Genetics

Lisa Dunne and Lindsay Harrington, both Class of '09, are helping to protect NJ watersheds

Kira Dacanay, class of '06, has already had a diverse career.

Ray Dodd, Class of '09, is capturing wolves

The Birds!  Lockwood and colleagues publish book on Avian Invasions

Handel Wins 2009 Award for Research From American Society of Landscape Architects

About us...
We are an interdisciplinary department specializing in ecology, evolution, and natural resource conservation. Our teaching and research focus on issues of global change including managing natural resources within urban ecosystems, studying the evolutionary origins and maintenance of biodiversity, and conserving and restoring native ecosystems. Our research interests cross all biological scales from microbes to ecosystems. We are also committed to working with the public through education, outreach, and extension.

Ecology: Study of the interactions between organisms and their environment.

Evolution: Study of how organisms change over time through natural selection and the creation and extinction of biodiversity.

Natural Resource Conservation: Study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of native biological diversity and other natural resources