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Research
More than a third of the faculty members of SOLS are conducting investigations that touch on some aspect of sustainability. Faculty interests and researches are wide ranging, in approach, perspective and application. Some of the research interests and questions are outlined below in the form of “SOLS snippets.” Click here for more SOLS snippets. Greater detail with regard to faculty research programs can be found through the links listed in the section entitled: Faculty.
How do humans impact plant communities?
John Briggs
When is an emerging infectious disease a force in extinction?
James Collins
Can genetics help engineer a better world?
Roy Curtiss III
What do tumors and food webs have in common?
Jim Elser
Who eats whom in cities?
Stan Faeth
The smallest shall contribute the most
Ferran Garcia-Pichel
What makes a population viable?
Leah Gerber
How many species of Indo-Pacific fishes are there? How did they evolve and how did get to live where they live?
Anthony Gill
How do humans change the goods and services provided by Earth's systems?
Sharon J. Hall
What makes systems resilient?
Ann Kinzig
How many species of myrtle are there? How many remain to be discovered and how many are extinct?
Leslie Landrum
What plants and lichen tell us about air pollution?
Thomas Nash III
Life in a changing Ocean
Susanne Neuer
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it
David Pearson
When it comes to evolution, how do fossil plants tell time?
Kathleen B. Pigg
How do we recognize and describe similarity?
Michael S. Rosenberg
Riparian diversity stronghold in the Cadillac desert
John Sabo
The Plateau Pika is a Keystone Species for Biodiversity on the Tibetan Plateau
Andrew T. Smith
Can freshwater ecosystems be sustained in the rapidly urbanizing desert Southwest?
Juliet Stromberg
Might microbes fuel our future?
Wim Vermaas
How many species are there?
Quentin Wheeler
How to develop and maintain sustainable landscapes?
Jianguo (Jingle) Wu