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News
MAY 2012 Congratulations to Heidi Golden on receiving an EPA STAR fellowship.
Congratulations to Robert Roehm for his successful defense of his Masters thesis
Congratulations to Alex Shepack and Emily Herstoff for acceptance to graduate schools at Yale and Stony Brook
APRIL 2012 Congratulations to Jessie Rack on receiving a NSF fellowship.
Welcome to Michael Hutson, who will join the lab as a Ph. D. student and also received an honorable mention in the NSF competition
FEBRUARY 2012 Check out the latest on the eastern US amphibian migration through our Google Map
JANUARY 2012 See our recent article on why current predictions about biodiversity losses from climate change might be conservative Selected media coverage:
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Home I study the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that shape natural communities across multiple spatial scales. Across natural landscapes, the local dynamics of community interactions can be shaped both by local conditions and by migration from nearby communities. At the same time, local adaptation and maladaptation due to regional gene flow can alter the outcome of species interactions. My research focuses on this interface between migration-niche-partitioning and migration-selection dynamics in a regional context. This research seeks to answer fundamental questions about how migration and gene flow across heterogeneous landscapes shape local species interactions, patterns of community diversity and structure, the evolutionary divergence of interacting populations, the invasion success of introduced species, and responses of communities to disturbance. Most of my work focuses on aquatic systems, which are ideal systems in which to study these questions because of their patchy distribution across natural landscapes.
I apply a variety of approaches to address these questions, including old-fashioned field work, experiments performed across a variety of scales, and theoretical models ranging in complexity from simple analytical models to complex individual-based simulations. For more specific information, see my Projects page.
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Contact Information:
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut 75 N. Eagleville Rd., Unit 3043 Storrs, CT 06269-3043
Phone: 860-486-6113 Lab: 860-486-6154 Fax: 860-486-6364 E-mail: mark.urban(at)uconn.edu
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