Results for "conservation"

Projects

Cool Texas fishes in need of further research

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Texas has three species of catfishes restricted to deep underground aquifers. They are fascinating creatures, potentially endangered, and hugely in need of diverse research. Though we currently have only limited…

Fishes of Texas

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The Fishes of Texas Project (http://www.fishesoftexas.org) has compiled, and continues to expand and refine, a large database of museum specimen-based records of the the…

Faculty

Nichole Bennett

Affiliated Departments:
School of Biological Sciences, Integrative Biology
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Impact of climate change on species' interactions.

Kelley Crews

Affiliated Departments:
Geography / Environment
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Dr. Crews-Meyer's interests include geographic information science, remote sensing, land use / land cover change, human-environment interactions, environmental policy, global tropics especially Thailand, Andean…

Laura Crothers

Affiliated Departments:
School of Biological Sciences
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Sexual selection, evolution of communication systems, animal behavior, field research, behavioral ecology, visual signaling

Tom Devitt

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences, Integrative Biology
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I study patterns of geographic variation among populations to understand evolutionary processes such as local adaptation, population divergence, and speciation. My research combines aspects of ecology, evolution,…

Robin Doughty

Affiliated Departments:
Geography / Environment
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Environmental Resource Management, Landscape Ecology, Cultural Geography, Historical Ecology, Biogeography, Endangered Species

David J Eaton

Affiliated Departments:
Asian Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Center for European Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Geography / Environment, Middle Eastern Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, South Asia Institute, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, College of Natural Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, LBJ School of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs
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Systems analysis, environmental and energy policy, nonprofit management, sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, prevention of pollution
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Peter English

Affiliated Departments:
School of Biological Sciences
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Avian ecology and behavior
International conservation
Science education

Norma L Fowler

Affiliated Departments:
Integrative Biology, School of Biological Sciences
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Professor Fowler and her students are currently pursuing a variety of questions in several areas of plant population ecology and plant community ecology. These areas include (1) the dynamics and regulation of plant…