Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, Professor

Research Area(s): Interactive effects of disturbance and spatial structure on plant community and population dynamics, especially for several rare plant species endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida.
I am a member of the science committee for the COMPADRE & COMADRE database project to create an open-access database of matrix population models for both animals and plants from all over the world to facilitate its usage for scientific and teaching purposes.

David G. Jenkins, Professor

Research Areas: Metacommunity ecology, aquatic & wetland ecology, ecological biogeography, macroecology.

I. Jack Stout, Professor emeritus

Research Areas: Conservation biology of Florida, including beach mice, gopher tortoise, and lupines.

Danny Gooding, PhD

Research: Danny studies spatial patterns of coral reef health off the southeast Florida coast, with the goal to determine drivers of patterns, Hopefully, results will help understand the decline of Florida’s coral reefs and provide a guide for conservation efforts.

Ian Biazzo, PhD

Research: Fire, frogs and some other stuff

Research: My research examines both the theoretical and methodological aspects of modeling species (native and nonnative) distributions through habitat suitability and connectivity analyses in order to inform effective conservation management decisions.

Federico Lopez Borghesi, PhD

Research: Broadly, I am interested on the interplay between plant reproductive physiology and population level dynamics. My project aims to find novel ways to frame seed ecophysiology studies to inform plant demography models.

Jacob D. Hart, PhD

Research:My research examines how disturbance and productivity influence biodiversity in freshwater communities of plants and invertebrates. With this project, I hope to provide a thorough experimental evaluation of the dynamic equilibrium model of biodiversity.