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Our Conservation Ecology Research Group at North Carolina State University combines diverse approaches to the study of diversity, rarity, extinction and conservation. Within the group our research includes microcosms, large-scale experiments on corridors, studies of rarity and diversity at continental scales and diverse modeling approaches. We work in long-leaf pine savannas, tropical forests, mediterannean heathlands, hardwood forests and computer pixels and study butterflies, amphibians and reptiles, ants, plants, birds, and even a beaver or two.

For publications in the lab group see, Nick's group, Rob's group or Kevin's group.

See also our new projects, a Global Ant Survey, a project at Fort Bragg on multispecies conservation planning, and a project on transience in populations.

See also our lab in the news: extinctions, conservation, and beavers.

 
 
   

Current lab group members: Becky Bartel, Dr. Rob R. Dunn, Will Fields, Dr. Aaron Gove, Dr. Kevin Gross, Dr. Nick Haddad, Allison Leidner, Dr. Nicole Thurgate, Judith Canner, Benoit Guenard, Matt Fitzpatrick, Matt Hamilton, Ian Fiske and Neil McCoy

Opportunities in the lab group: Opportunties exist for postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate students to work with rare butterflies, ants, plants, and ideas. See opportunities in the Dunn, Gross or Haddad labs.

Other Conservation Ecologists at NCSU include: Jerome Brester, Dr. Jaime Collazo, Dr. George Hess, Dr. William Hoffman, Becky Hylton, Dr. Sarah Mabey, Krishna Pacifica, Dr. Ken Pollock, Dr. Roger Powell, S hiloh Shulte, and Dr. Thomas Wentworth

Newest additions: Nicole Thurgate has begun work as a postdoc studying animal movement and conservation at Fort Bragg. Neil McKoy is beginning a masters project on the relationship between fire, ant communities and seed dispersal in Western Australia. Benoit Guenard is beginning a semester long project on midden behavior by the seed dispersing ant species Aphaenogaster rudis. Ian Fiske, Matt Hamilton and Judith Canner are all bringing projects in Biomath and Conservation.