The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology embraces education and research on all aspects of biodiversity, including the history of life on earth, the evolutionary mechanisms that generate diversity, the ecological context in which all life has evolved, and the consequences of interactions among organisms, including humans. Faculty expertise ranges from bacteria to mastodons, from the tropics to the tundra, from the theoretical to the practical.

Faculty search in microbial ecology is underway

Featured research
This photo shows exposures of the Siwalik Group sediments on the Potwar Plateau in Pakistan
Long-term study shows effect of climate change on animal diversity
Two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited what is now northern Pakistan. But when climate shifted dramatically there some eight million years ago, precipitating a major change in vegetation, most species became locally extinct rather than adapting to the new ecosystem, an extensive, long-term study of mammal fossils spanning a five-million-year period reveals.

Results of the study, by professor and paleoecologist Catherine Badgley and coworkers, were published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences August 20, 2008.



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  • New EEB student orientation
    Breakfast and introductions begin at 9 a.m., Thursday, 8/28/08, Room 2009 Ruthven Museums. Get acquainted with new colleagues and EEB’s resources.

  • The EEB Fall Weekend: Meet, mingle, and explore!

    The 22nd annual EEB Fall Weekend will be held at the U-M Biological Station from Friday evening, Sept. 5, until noon, Sunday, Sept. 7.


  • Tuesday lunch seminars
    12:10 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 9, Room 2009 Ruthven. Professor John Vandermeer presents

    "Robust criticality and its cause in a Mexican agroecosystem."


  • TROPIBIO seminars
    The fall 2008 schedule is coming soon.

  • Thursday seminar series

    4:10 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, Natural Science auditorium. Dr. Stephen Wright, assistant professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, presents "Polymorphism and divergence in Arabidopsis and Capsella: Does inbreeding matter?"

 

 

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