Associated research groups and example themes:
Walter Jetz (EEB, FES, Director): Global distributions of species and traits, global change
Cory Merow (EEB, Center Research Scientist): Quantitative ecology
Michelle Duong (EEB, Program Manager): Biodiversity, conservation, informatics
David Skelly (F&ES, YPM Director): Species distribution, population survival under climate change
Os Schmitz (F&ES, YIBS Director): Dynamics of food webs and ecosystems
Liza Comita (F&ES): Tropical Forest Ecology
Ronald Smith (G&G, Director of YIBS Center for Earth Observation): fine-scale regional climate models.
Carla Staver (EEB): Savannah ecology, fire dynamics
Pincelli Hull (G&G): Biodiversity dynamics through time
Michael Donoghue (EEB, YPM): Distribution, environmental niches and biogeography of plants
Eric Sargis (Anthropology, YPM): Species distributions, phylogeography of mammals
Derek Briggs (G&G, YPM): Fossils in time and space
Gisella Caccone (EEB): Genetic variation in space and environment
Mary Beth Decker (EEB): Marine phylogeography
Durland Fish (E&PH): Spatial disease dynamics, climatic niches of disease vectors
Jacques Gauthier (G&G, YPM): Spatial distribution of vertebrates
Thomas Near (EEB, YPM): Speciesdistributions, environmental niches, phylogeography of fishes
Rick Prum (EEB, YPM): Phylogeography and evolution of birds and their traits
Karen Seto (F&ES): Remote sensing and urban environments