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Conservation Biology Faculty Members

James Carrel
Professor
Division of Biological Sciences
Area of interest: Chemical ecology of insects; Conservation biology of spiders

Lori S. Eggert
Assistant Professor
Division of Biological Sciences and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Areas of interest: Conservation genetics, genetic structure of species and definitions of conservation units (ESU, management units, etc)I

John Faaborg
Professor
Division of Biological Sciences and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: Avian ecology, Neotropical Migrant Birds

David L. Galat
Cooperative Associate Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: Large river ecology, riverine fish ecology, restoration ecology

Susan Flader
Professor
Department of History
Area of interest: Environmental history and natural resource policy

Matthew Gompper
Associate Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: Ecology, evolution, and conservation of vertebrates, especially of mammalian carnivores

Dylan Kessler
Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: Avian conservation, behavioral ecology, dispersal and population biology

David Konisky
Assistant Professor
Truman School of Public Affairs
Area of interest: Environmental regulation, land use politics; wetlands protection

R. Lee Lyman
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
Area of Interest: The use of paleozoological data reflecting ecological benchmarks that resource managers, landscape ecologists, and conservation biologists might seek to recreate or maintain; mammals, both terrestrial and marine (Pacific); the articulation of scientific research and management policies pertaining to federal land.

Joshua Millspaugh
Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: Analysis of radio tracking and population demographic studies; Large mammal ecology and management; The use of stress hormone measures in conservation biology research

Rose-Marie Muzika
Associate Professor
Department of Forestry
Areas of interest: Disturbance ecology; Insect ecology; Implications of forest management

Charles Nilon
Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: The impact of urbanization on wildlife habitats, populations, and communities; The role of nature as part of an individual's day-to-day environment

Craig Palmer
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Area of interest: Evolutionary theory and the ecology of fishing communities, with a focus on the overfishing of cod in Newfoundland.

Deborah Pearsall
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Area of interest: Paleoethnobotany and South American archaeology; Phytoliths (plant opaline silica bodies), starch granules, and macroremains (charred botanical materials); The origins and evolution of agriculture in the Neotropics

Tony Prato
H.A. Cowden Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics
Area of Interest: Integrated modeling and analysis of coupled human-natural systems, assessing ecological economic impacts of climate change and land use changes in mountain ecosystems, adaptive management, conservation and management of national parks and protected areas.

Sandy Rikoon
Professor
Department of Rural Sociology; Food, Environment and Society Program
Area of Interest: The social and cultural dimensions of environmental conflict and ecosystem protection and restoration in the US Midwest and Central and Eastern Europe

Raymond Semlitsch
Curators' Professor
Division of Biological Sciences
Areas of interest: Persistence of amphibian populations in disturbed landscapes; Dispersal as a behavioral link in metapopulation dynamics; Complex interactions of natural and chemical stressors in larval amphibian ecology

Reed Wadley
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Area of Interest: Ecological and environmental anthropology, with emphasis on local management of natural resources, tropical forest-based agriculture, conservation co-management strategies, and historical ecology, primarily in Southeast Asia

Jan Weaver
Director, MU Environmental Studies
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
Assistant Director, Honors College
Area of Interest: Community ecology of insects and other arthropods in Missouri Ozark Forests, especially under different logging regimes; roles that science and values play in resource and environmental management decisions and in science education

Additional Members

Robert J DiStefano
Director of Missouri's Statewide Crayfish Conservation and Management Program
Missouri Department of Conservation
Area of Interest: research and monitoring of crayfish that are "imperiled" or "critically imperiled" in Missouri or globally.

Charles Rabeni
Leader
Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Area of Interest: Stream ecology and management

Mark Wildhaber
Quantitative Ecologist
U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center
Area of Interest: Quantitative ecology, behavioral ecology and reproductive biology of fishes; ecological modeling, stream community ecology, biostatistics, fate and effect of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems and risk assessment; threatened and endangered fish species including reproductive ecology and the effects of natural and anthropogenic factors on riverine fish communities

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