"EEBies" study a wide variety of taxa, from the archaea to fungi, from algae to insects, from grasses to mammals.  We ask questions at a variety of levels from physiological ecology to phylogenetic reconstruction. We use tools as varied as quadrats and computer models, molecules and satellites, to get at the answers.  We work in ecosystems throughout Oklahoma, from high prairie to the ozark forests, from rivers to reservoirs, and from the polar seas to tropical rainforests.

 Our program offers guidance, tools, facilities, and financial support to students of ecology and evolutionary biology. 

Next Ecomunch in
August
1:30 in Richards 304

Recent News
BIG Congrats to Rich Broughton on the twin publications in PLOS Currents, one on a new TOL for the Bony FIshes, and the second on Rates of Evolution in same.

Check out David Donoso and Natalie Clay's new paper in Soil Biology and Biochemistry: "Trees as templates for trophic structure of tropical litter arthropod fauna"

Congrats to Rachel Hartnett as EEB's newest NSF Graduate Research Fellow!

New NSF Instrument Development for Biological Research grant to Jeff Kelly and Eli Bridge
We are on the verge of a revolution in our understanding of bird migration. Until recently we have been unable to track the migration routes of birds weighing less than 50g—that’s more than half of all species. But thanks to advances in miniaturized, high efficiency electronics, we now have tiny tracking devices called geolocators which we can deploy on birds as small as 15g. Biologists at OU have been designing geolocators for several years now, and have produced and tested the smallest device ever made (0.5g). With a recent award from NSF, they will formalize and improve their design, carry out a much needed suite of testing to evaluate the effects of the tags on small birds, generate new, open-access analysis software, and work to make the devices cheap enough to enable widespread tracking studies..