Faculty with expertise in Ecology at OSU are members of various departments. Cross-departmental and inter-program collaborations are frequent.
Some of the faculty listed below are not 'ecologists' in the classic sense, but their expertise overlaps with, or contributes to, ecology as a whole. The list does not contain the numerous technicians, post-docs, or graduate students who also make up the community of scientists with ecological expertise.
The OSU Ecology Faculty are listed on this page alphabetically and by relevant disciplines. Click here to go to the discipline list.
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Ecology Faculty listed alphabetically |
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| Name | Department | Interests |
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Battles, Bruce |
Geography | Director, CARS |
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Baum, Kristen |
Zoology | Conservation Biology, Invertebrate Ecology, Landscape Ecology |
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Berberet, Richard |
Entomology & Plant Pathology | Insect ecology, biological control |
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Bidwell, Terry |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Restoration and management of prairies, shrublands, and forests; fire effects and behavior; habitat specialists as indicator species. |
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Bidwell, Joseph
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Zoology | Contaminant effects on benthic macroinvertebrates. Energetic costs of contaminant exposure. |
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Burnap, Robert
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Microbiology & Molecular Genetics | Microbial Ecology |
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Carter, Tracy |
Zoology | Conservation; Bison ecology; Applied behavioral research; Vertebrate Ecology |
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Cordova, Carlos
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Geography | Palynology and Paleoecology |
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Davis, Craig |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Avian Ecology and Management, Effects of human-impacted environments on avian species, terrestrial and aquatic invertebrate ecology, foraging ecology |
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Deng, Shiping |
Plant & Soil Science | Microbial ecology in managed soil ecosystems, including soil enzyme activities, biogeochemical cycles of nutrients, and microbial activity, diversity, and community structure. |
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Doust, Andrew
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Botany | |
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Echelle, Anthony
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Zoology | Conservation ecology of fishes in arid lands |
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Elliot, Norman
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Geography | Insect ecology, emphasizing the effects of ecological heterogeneity at multiple scales on insect populations and communities in agroecosystems |
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Elmore, Dwayne |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Avian ecology and management, human dimensions, and effects of fire on wildlife. |
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Fathepure, Babu |
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics | Environmental microbiology of pollutant degradation in soil and subsurface environments, microbial ecology, diversity-function in aquifer and animal waste lagoon |
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Fisher, William
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Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Stream ecology, fish ecology, fisheries science, GIS applications in fish and wildlife |
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Fox, Stanley |
Zoology | Evolutionary and behavioral ecology; community ecology; herpetology; lizard social behavior, emerging infectious diseases of amphibians; local and landscape level forest habitat effects on herp communities. |
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Fuhlendorf, Samuel |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Landscape ecology, plant-animal interactions, wildlife habitat ecology, community ecology, rangeland monitoring, landscape management, ecological succession, grassland ecology, woody-herbaceous interactions |
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Giles, Kristopher |
Entomology & Plant Pathology | Biological control of arthropods, tritrophic interactions, Integrated Pest Management in cropping systems |
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Greenwood, Carmen |
Entomology & Plant Pathology, Environmental Science | Insect ecology, community ecology, invertebrate indicators of aquatic, riparian and terrestrial disturbance |
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Guthery, Fred |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Ecology and management of game birds |
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Hallgren, Stephen
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Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Water transport in plants, components of water use efficiency, carbon allocation to roots, root anatomy & function, fire and vegetation dynamics in the Cross Timbers, ecology of seed germination |
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Henley, William
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Botany | Stress physiology and phylogeography of algae and cyanobacteria: photosynthesis, light, temperature, salinity, nutrients; aquatic macrophytes and water quality. See the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory |
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Hickman, Karen |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Invasive Species, plant-animal interactions, population ecology, community ecology, wildlife habitat ecology, rangeland monitoring, landscape management, ecological succession, grassland ecology, woody-herbaceous interactions |
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Leslie, David (Chip) |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Terrestrial vertebrate ecology, particularly conservation and recovery of endangered species and effects of habitat alteration, and nutrition |
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Lightfoot, Dale |
Geography | Cultural Ecology, Agriculture and Water Technology, Remote Sensing, Resource Management, Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East |
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Lynch, Thomas |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Forest sampling and growth modeling |
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McAlister, Suzanne |
Botany | Bryophyte ecology |
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McBee, Karen |
Zoology | Cytogenetics and molecular genetics of mammals and reptiles; the consequences of genetic change as a result of both environmental alteration and evolutionary processes; genetic and evolutionary responses to environmental stressors |
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Melcher, Ulrich |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Roles of plant viruses in natural and managed ecosystems and effects of ecosystem parameters on viruses. |
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Miller, Robert |
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics | Genetics, Viruses of Microorganisms, Environmental and Biological Stress, Microbial Molecular Biology, Evolution of Deep-Subsurface Bacteria. See the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory |
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O'Connell, Timothy |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Ornithology, Landscape ecology, Ecological Indicators, Citizen Science and Conservation |
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Palmer, Michael
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Botany | Plant ecology, floristics, biodiversity, biogeography, vegetation, quantitative methods, plant virus ecology |
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Rao, Mahesh |
Geography | The use of GIS and Remote sensing technologies for natural resource conservation |
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Shoup, Daniel |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Fisheries Ecology and Management; Predator-prey Interactions; Optimal Foraging; Trophic Dynamics |
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Shaw, James |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Ecology, behavior, and conservation of large mammals, specifically American bison |
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Shufran, Kevin |
Entomology & Plant Pathology | Insect Genetics, molecular ecology, plant-insect interactions. |
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Smith, Loren |
Zoology | wetland ecology and principles of biodiversity; biogeography of playa wetlands and biotic diversity in Great Plains ecosystems in the United States and Canada |
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Stadler, Stephen |
Geography | Applied climatology (including land/atmosphere interactions), remote sensing, physical geography |
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Steets, Janette |
Botany | Plant evolutionary ecology, ecological genetics, population biology, plant reproduction |
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Talent, Larry |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Effects of environmental contaminants on physiology and life history parameters of vertebrates, particularly reptiles |
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Tauer, Charles |
Forestry | Tree population biology and forest genetics |
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Toetz, Dale |
Zoology | Aquatic productivity, nitrogen cycling, reservoirs |
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Turton, Don |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Forest hydrology; the effects of land management on the quantity and quality of water, forest and rural road erosion and the application of GPS and GIS to collect and analyze spatial data. |
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Tyrl, Ronald |
Botany | Flora and vegetation of Oklahoma, toxic plants, agrostology |
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Van Den Bussche, Ronald
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Zoology | Molecular systematics (primarily of mammals) and the interface of molecular genetics and wildlife management |
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Weir, John |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Fire effects, fire behavior, prairie, shrubland, and forest restoration |
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Wikle, Thomas |
Geography | Natural resources, particularly in US National Parks |
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Will, Rod |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | Net primary production, canopy dynamics, nutrient and carbon cycling, invasive species, gas exchange |
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Wilson, Gail |
Natural Resource Ecology & Management | |
| Terry Bidwell | Sam Fuhlendorf | Karen Hickman | Gail Wilson |
| Tracy Carter | John Weir | ||
| Anthony Echelle | William Fisher | Daniel Shoup | Dale Toetz |
| Terry Bidwell | Anthony Echelle | William Fisher | Sam Fuhlendorf |
| James Shaw | Karen Hickman | Gail Wilson | Dwayne Elmore |
| John Weir | Loren Smith | ||
| Kristen Baum | Norman Elliott | Stan Fox | Sam Fuhlendorf |
| Dale Lightfoot | Michael Palmer | ||
| Stanley Fox | Sam Fuhlendorf | David Leslie | Karen McBee |
| Freshwater Ecology | |||
| Joseph Bidwell | Anthony Echelle | William Fisher | William Henley |
| Robert Miller | Daniel Shoup | Dale Toetz | |
| Kristen Baum | Terry Bidwell | Tracy Carter | Craig Davis |
| Anthony Echelle | William Fisher | Stanley Fox | Sam Fuhlendorf |
| David Leslie | Karen McBee | Michael Palmer | Mahesh Rao |
| James Shaw | Larry Talent | Ronald Van Den Bussche | Karen Hickman |
| Dwayne Elmore | Thomas Wikle | ||
| Terry Bidwell | Sam Fuhlendorf | Stephen Hallgren | William Henley |
| Suzanne McAlister | Michael Palmer | Charles Tauer | Ronald Tyrl |
| Karen Hickman | Gail Wilson | Rod Will | Janette Steets |
| Joseph Bidwell | William Henley | ||
| Craig Davis | Anthony Echelle | Stanley Fox | William Henley |
| Suzanne McAlister | Loren Smith | ||
| Terry Bidwell | Tracy Carter | Craig Davis | Stanley Fox |
| Sam Fuhlendorf | David Leslie | Karen McBee | James Shaw |
| Ronald Van Den Bussche | Karen Hickman | Larry Talent | Dwayne Elmore |
| Kristen Baum | Terry Bidwell | Joseph Bidwell | Tracy Carter |
| Craig Davis | Anthony Echelle | Norman Elliot | William Fisher |
| Stanley Fox | Sam Fuhlendorf | Kristopher Giles | Fred Guthery |
| David Leslie | Karen McBee | Daniel Shoup | Ronald Van Den Bussche |
| James Shaw | Keven Shufran | Larry Talent | |
| Terry Bidwell | Tracy Carter | Craig Davis | Sam Fuhlendorf |
| Fred Guthery | David Leslie | Karen McBee | Michael Palmer |
| Mahesh Rao | Karen Hickman | Gail Wilson | John Weir |
| Stanley Fox | Fred Guthery | Michael Palmer | |
| Babu Fathepure | William Henley | Robert Miller | Gail Wilson |
| Shiping Deng | |||
| Terry Bidwell | Stanley Fox | Sam Fuhlendorf | Stephen Hallgren |
| David Leslie | Thomas Lynch | Suzanne McAlister | Michael Palmer |
| Charles Tauer | Donald Turton | Ronald Tyrl | Rod Will |
| Joseph Bidwell | Babu Fathepure | Stephen Hallgren | William Henley |
| Larry Talent | Rod Will | ||
| Community Ecology | |||
| Terry Bidwell | Joseph Bidwell | Anthony Echelle | Norman Elliott |
| William Fisher | Stanley Fox | Sam Fuhlendorf | Stephen Hallgren |
| Suzanne McAlister | Michael Palmer | Ronald Tyrl | Karen Hickman |
| Gail Wilson | |||
| Population Ecology | |||
| Kristen Baum | Terry Bidwell | Joseph Bidwell | Anthony Echelle |
| Norman Elliott | William Fisher | Stanley Fox | Kristopher Giles |
| Fred Guthery | Karen McBee | Gail Wilson | Daniel Shoup |
| James Shaw | Charles Tauer | Karen Hickman | Janette Steets |
| Behavioral Ecology | |||
| Tracy Carter | Stanley Fox | James Shaw | Daniel Shoup |
| Chemical, Molecular, or Genetics | |||
| Karen McBee | Robert Miller | Michael Palmer | |
| Kevin Shufran | Charles Tauer | Ronald Van Den Bussche | |
| Climate Change | |||
| Stanley Fox | Sam Fuhlendorf | Karen McBee | Robert Miller |
| Steve Stadler | |||
| Ecosystems / Biogeochemistry | |||
| Babu Fathepure | Sam Fuhlendorf | Dale Toetz | Donald Turton |
| Gail Wilson | |||
| Plant Virus Ecology | |||
| Michael Palmer | Ulrich Melcher | ||
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