Terrestrial Ecology

Dr. Allen Allison (Associate Faculty) - systematics, ecology, and zoogeography of amphibians and reptiles of New Guinea and the Pacific Region.

Dr. Paul Banko (Associate Faculty) - terrestrial ecology on islands with emphasis on avian foraging ecology and population restoration; restoration of endangered Hawaiian lowland bird populations.

Dr. Sheila Conant - life history, ecology and conservation of Hawaiian birds, primarily geographic variation in morphology, genetics and behavior of endangered passerines in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Dr. Robert Cowie - geographic and evolutionary origins of biological diversity of Pacific Island non-marine snails; issues of alien species and conservation ecology with respect to non-marine snails; snail shell coiling and asymmetry.

Dr. Leonard Freed - evolutionary and behavioral ecology; life history theory, mating system theory, and optimal foraging theory; adaptation, particularly with bird species that display geographical variation in the characteristics of interest.

Dr. Michael Hadfield - demography and conservation biology of Hawaiian tree snails; effects of habitat alteration and introduced predators; comparing genetic identities of endemic tree snails, analyzing the degree of inbreeding in very small, remnant field populations, and devising breeding plans for captive-rearing.

Dr. Kenneth Kaneshiro - the dynamics of sexual selection of Hawaiian Drosophilidae and the role it plays in the speciation process; the biology of small populations and the role of sexual selection in populations faced with extinction.

Dr. Andrew Taylor - the effects of aspects of parasitoid biology on population dynamics, the effects of population spatial structure and metapopulation processes, and the application of these ideas to conservation biology and biological pest control.