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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


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