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Daniel T. Blumstein giving a lecture at the 14th Behavioral Ecology Congress in Lund, Sweden (2012) Daniel T. Blumstein is an ethologist and conservation biologist. He is professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, [1] as well as a professor for the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, [2] at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Amarasekare is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on biological and ecological mechanisms that maintain biological diversity in variable environments and how understanding of these dynamics can predict how patterns of diversity may change in variable ...
She was appointed Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2004. [6] In 2009 Sork was made Dean of the UCLA College of Letters and Science Life Sciences Division. [ 6 ] [ 18 ] Under her leadership, UCLA have established new initiatives, including [ 6 ] the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, [ 19 ] and The ...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) [1] is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San José State University.
A behavioral ecology hypothesis is known as Lack's brood reduction hypothesis (named after David Lack). [citation needed] Lack's hypothesis posits an evolutionary and ecological explanation as to why birds lay a series of eggs with an asynchronous delay leading to nestlings of mixed age and weights. According to Lack, this brood behavior is an ...
The main subfields of evolutionary ecology are life history evolution, sociobiology (the evolution of social behavior), the evolution of interspecific interactions (e.g. cooperation, predator–prey interactions, parasitism, mutualism) and the evolution of biodiversity and of ecological communities.
West-Eberhard has studied many species of social wasps such as Polistes fuscatus, Polistes canadensis, and Polistes erythrocephalus. [9] Through her studies she has investigated why wasps evolved from being casteless and nestsharing casteless to becoming highly specialized eusocial species using comparative studies of tropical wasps (Hymenoptera).
Ecology and Evolutionary biology in North America is based on research impact determined by the top 10% of ecology programs. The interactive web of organisms and environment are all part of what the field of Ecology explores. There have been studies in evolution that have worked to prove that "modern organisms have developed from ancestral ones."