Flecker Lab collaborates to shrink Amazon dams' greenhouse gas emissions
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Meet our faculty: Xiangtao Xu

Xiangtao Xu (徐湘涛 in Chinese) joins the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology's team as an assistant professor. Xu is an ecosystem ecologist with broad interests in other related fields of ecology and Earth System Science.

Were Australia’s lyrebirds the first ‘meme generators’?

Australia’s Superb Lyrebird – the most astonishing animal mimic in the world – has been transmitting song and dance memes for millions of years.

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JAN 27Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series... Dr. Leslie Babonis, University of Florida Title: Novelty and the evolution of biodiversity 01/27/20, A106 Morison Room, 12:20pm

JAN 30Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series featur... Dr. Thomas Stewart, University of Chicago Title: Fins, limbs, and the origin of morphological novelty 01/30/20, A106 Morison Room, 2:30pm

FEB 03Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Seminar featuring Dr.... Dr. Eric Riddell, University of California, Berkeley Title: Predicting extinction in terrestrial animals using ecophysiology 02/03/20, A106 Morison Room, 12:20pm

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Our Department in Action

EEB faculty and students pursue topics across a broad set of interlinked fields, including ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry, community ecology and population biology, organismal biology, chemical and molecular ecology, population genetics and genomics, speciation and macroevolution. Follow this link to view "Our Department in Action" gallery.

Stink bug predator eating a Monarch butterfly caterpillar White sturgeon fish head specimen prepared using clear staining technique

Research Spotlight

Biodiversity, Interactions, and Ecology: Cornell Research features EEB's Anurag Agrawal as he explores the fascinating world of plants and insects—how they evolved together, attacking and defending themselves against each other, yet maintaining diverse ecosystems. View a transcript of this video.