Research Strength Florida State University has long been at the forefront of ecology. Work on the role of competition and the niche done at FSU in the 1980’s changed the direction of ecology. Our traditional strength in evolution is in evolutionary ecology, including such areas as life history, plasticity, and mating systems. Our current group spans the interface between ecology and evolution, focusing on experimental, theoretical and comparative approaches. While we have strengths in a variety of areas, common themes that tie our group together are a focus on concepts, an appreciation for quantitative approaches, and an interest in considering questions broadly from both ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Below are faculty from the EE group and associates at FSU listed by areas of research. Follow links for a more complete description of their work. The Faculty Directory lists faculty alphabetically, and it lists faculty with related research interests from other departments on campus. Animal Behavior Faculty: DuVal, Hughes, E. Lemmon, Travis, Tschinkel Faculty emeritus: Herrnkind Ecology and Conservation Biology Faculty: DuVal, Inouye, Lee, Levitan, Miller, Travis, Tschinkel, Underwood, Winn, Wulff Coastal and Marine Lab faculty: Coleman, Grubbs, Koenig Faculty emeritus: James Associates: Dixon Evolutionary Morphology Faculty: Erickson, Steppan Department of Scientific Computing faculty: Slice Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics Faculty: DuVal, Hughes, E. Lemmon, Houle, Levitan, Rokyta, Steppan, Travis, Underwood, Winn Department of Scientific Computing faculty: Beerli, A. Lemmon, Slice Marine Biology Faculty: Levitan, Wulff Coastal and Marine Lab faculty: Coleman, Grubbs, Koenig Faculty emeritus: Herrnkind, Livingston, Mariscal Phylogenetics/Systematics Faculty: E. Lemmon, Mast, Steppan Department of Scientific Computing faculty: Beerli, A. Lemmon, Wilgenbusch Faculty emeritus: Anderson Associates: Spears Theoretical, Computational, and Mathematical Biology Faculty: Houle, Inouye, Lee, Rokyta Department of Scientific Computing faculty: Beerli, A. Lemmon, Slice Graduate Program In many graduate programs, students disappear behind the closed doors of their advisors' labs for five years. This is not the Florida State way. Instead we emphasize the importance of a broad background in all aspects of ecology or evolution. Mirroring our faculty, the graduate-student group is interactive, cohesive, and mutually supportive. Students usually share office space with those from different labs. Although students in our program pursue a flexible course of study with a minimal set of required courses, most do take the introductory sequence of four courses. These common experiences set the stage for interactions across disciplines that often continue long after students have left Florida State. Natural environments Many of our faculty and graduate students do research in the superb array of nearby habitats. These include the following: seagrass beds, salt marshes, and open waters in the Gulf of Mexico longleaf pine savannahs and hardwood swamps in the Apalachicola National Forest sinkholes and springs of the Woodville Karst Plain and nearby rivers and lakes agricultural fields and successional "old-fields" of the historic plantations between Tallahassee and Thomasville, GA relict Appalachian vegetation that persists in cool "steephead ravines" along river valleys red clay hills at Tall Timbers Research Station. Tallahassee is a pleasant, small city of about 170,000, where two universities and the state government are the major employers. Off the main roads, Tallahassee is a city of trees—huge live oaks, magnolias, and cypresses dominate the look of our neighborhoods.
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