Welcome to NCEAS

Scientists at NCEAS use existing information to address important questions in ecology and allied disciplines. Hundreds of scholars, including Postdoctoral Associates, Sabbatical Fellows, and visitors in Working Groups and Distributed Graduate Seminars collaborate each year at the Center on scores of projects.

Research

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Research Highlights

Featured Research Underway

Exploring the Effects of Evolutionary History on Global Patterns of Diversity
Principal Investigator: Patrick R. Stephens
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This research uses results of advances in molecular biology and computational techniques to explore the origins of large-scale patterns of species richness.

Scientific Products

Featured Dataset

Avian Community Structure and Incidence of Human West Nile Virus
John Swaddle

Metrics of avian community structure and human incidence of West Nile Virus, select counties, eastern U.S. See Swaddle and Calos, 2008

Projects Funded 2008

Announcements

NCEAS Partners with ESA Education and Diversity Programs Office to Present Faculty Development Workshop

Special Call for Proposals: 30 Sept Deadline
Experimental Design for Detection of Species Response to Management Actions Across Scales

NCEAS Research in the News

Colloquium Paper: Phylogenetic Trees and the Future of Mammalian Biodiversity
T. Jonathan Davies et al.
PNAS 105: 11556-11563 Abstract

The Coevolution of Cooperation and Dispersal in Social Groups and Its Implications for the Emergence of Multicellularity
Michael E. Hochberg, Daniel J. Rankin, Michael Taborsky
BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:232
Abstract published 8/19/2008
The Many Faces of Fear: Comparing the Pathways and Impacts of Nonconsumptive Predator Effects on Prey Populations
Evan L. Preisser, Daniel I. Bolnick PLoS ONE 3(6): e2465