ES PhD: Ecology and Conservation Biology

The study of ecology and conservation biology necessarily integrates the principles of ecology with an understanding of the sociopolitical and economic landscapes in which threats to biodiversity occur. We employ both quantitative and qualitative approaches to focus on multidimensional conservation issues that incorporate facets of environmental education, environmental decision-making processes, resource management, and land use planning with the ecology of species, communities, ecosystems, and landscapes. Our faculty and students have worked in such diverse places as New England, the Western US, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Central America, East Africa, Madagascar, Malaysia, Laos, and Indonesia.

The key interests of students and faculty:

Capacity building in conservation and education
Community-based conservation and resource management
Conservation design
Conservation psychology
Forest Ecology
Ecosystem Ecology
Indigenous knowledge systems
Land use policy and conservation of biological diversity
Natural resource management
Physical and biogeography
Primate ecology and conservation
Protected areas management
Resilience and complex systems
Restoration ecology
Soil science and best land use practices
Theoretical and applied ecology
Theory and practice of conservation biology
Tropical ecology and conservation

ES PhD: Ecology and Conservation Biology

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