50 faculty and 0 courses in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (LSA) at University of Michigan.
- Jianzhi Zhang, Marshall W. Nirenberg Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology h-index 86
Notable: “Evolution by gene duplication: an update” (2003) · 2,308 citations
- Tom Schmidt, Professor h-index 78
Notable: “Fundamentals of Microbial Community Resistance and Resilience” (2012) · 1,722 citations
- Nate Sanders, Professor h-index 72
Notable: “Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist” (2010) · 2,440 citations
- John Vandermeer, Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor h-index 70
Notable: “EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE” (2005) · 7,932 citations
- Stephen A. Smith, Professor; Acting Chair h-index 69
Notable: “Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis” (2008) · 2,350 citations
- Timothy James, Professor; Curator of Fungi; Lewis E. Wehmeyer and Elaine Prince Wehmeyer Professor in the Taxonomy of Fungi h-index 67
Much of the obvious adaptive evolution in Fungi is observed in their diversification of mating systems and dispersal mechanisms. I study the evolution of sex and reproductive traits of Fungi and attempt to link these traits with phylogeny a
Notable: “Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi” (2012) · 5,111 citations
- Daniel Rabosky, Professor; Curator, Museum of Zoology h-index 63
Notable: “Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification” (2011) · 1,492 citations
- George Kling, Professor; Associate Chair for Research and Facilities h-index 62
Notable: “Carbon Dioxide Supersaturation in the Surface Waters of Lakes” (1994) · 1,167 citations
- Adam Lauring, Professor h-index 58
Notable: “Case Definitions, Diagnostic Algorithms, and Priorities in Encephalitis: Consensus Statement of the International Encephalitis Consortium” (2013) · 1,174 citations
- L. Lacey Knowles, Robert B. Payne Collegiate Professor; Curator, Museum of Zoology h-index 58
Notable: “Inferring Phylogeny Despite Incomplete Lineage Sorting” (2006) · 1,179 citations
- Aimée Classen, Professor; Director of Biological Station h-index 57
Ecosystem ecology, environmental change, nutrient and carbon cycling, plant-soil interactions, biodiversity Graduate students Aadia Moseley-McCloud; Ariana Di Landro; Brenda Hernandez; Giovanna Munoz-Gonzalez; Ronan Montgomery-Taylor Post d
Notable: “Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change” (2019) · 2,075 citations
- Kai Zhu, Associate Professor h-index 52
Notable: “Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change” (2011) · 724 citations
- Thore Bergman, Professor h-index 45
Notable: “Strong and Consistent Social Bonds Enhance the Longevity of Female Baboons” (2010) · 821 citations
- Andrew Marshall, Professor h-index 45
Notable: “The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models” (2013) · 1,286 citations
- Patricia Wittkopp, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Deborah E. Goldberg Distinguished University Professor h-index 43
Notable: “Cis-regulatory elements: molecular mechanisms and evolutionary processes underlying divergence” (2011) · 1,250 citations
- Christopher Dick, Professor; Curator, U-M Herbarium; Director, ES George Reserve h-index 43
Notable: “Minimum sample sizes for population genomics: an empirical study from an Amazonian plant species” (2017) · 383 citations
- Meghan Duffy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Susan S. Kilham Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology h-index 42
General Overview: Research in the Duffy Lab aims to understand the causes and consequences of symbioses in freshwater plankton, recognizing that host-symbiont interactions are dynamic.
Notable: “Rapid evolution and ecological host–parasite dynamics” (2006) · 258 citations
- Inés Ibáñez, Professor h-index 41
Notable: “Global threats from invasive alien species in the twenty-first century and national response capacities” (2016) · 1,335 citations
- Aaron King, Nelson G. Hairston Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology h-index 40
Notable: “Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis: A Modeling Approach for Adaptive Evolution” (2004) · 1,493 citations
- Vincent Denef, Associate Professor h-index 40
Notable: “A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes” (2020) · 973 citations
- Elizabeth Tibbetts, Professor h-index 39
Notable: “The biology of color” (2017) · 799 citations
- Ben Dantzer, Professor h-index 37
Notable: “Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids” (2011) · 919 citations
- Catherine Badgley, Professor h-index 36
Notable: “Organic agriculture and the global food supply” (2007) · 949 citations
- John Lehman, Professor h-index 35
Notable: “The effect of changes in the nutrient income on the condition of Lake Washington1” (1981) · 349 citations
- Regina Baucom, Professor h-index 30
Notable: “Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants” (2014) · 1,344 citations
- María Natalia Umaña, Associate Professor h-index 30
Forest community ecology, functional trait ecology, tropical and temperate forests Research interests An outstanding question in ecology is how plant species coexist by using a limited handful of common resources (light, water, and soil nut
Notable: “Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics” (2016) · 216 citations
- Hernán López-Fernández, Professor; Curator of Fishes h-index 29
Tropical freshwater fishes, systematics, macroevolution, evolutionary ecology, conservation Research interests I am interested in the evolutionary processes that originate “mega-diverse” biotic assemblages and the role of ecology in shaping
Notable: “Habitat structural complexity and morphological diversity of fish assemblages in a Neotropical floodplain river” (2004) · 303 citations
- Marjorie Weber, Associate Professor; Associate Chair for Graduate Studies h-index 26
And Fields of Study Evolutionary Ecology Community Ecology Plants insect interactions Macroevolution Inclusive biology education Research Interests The Weber Lab studies how ecological interactions impact phenotypic evolution and diversific
Notable: “Toxic cardenolides: chemical ecology and coevolution of specialized plant–herbivore interactions” (2012) · 479 citations
- Jacob Allgeier, Associate Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Niche width collapse in a resilient top predator following ecosystem fragmentation” (2007) · 577 citations
- Thais Vasconcelos, Associate Chair for the Herbarium; Assistant Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Myrteae phylogeny, calibration, biogeography and diversification patterns: Increased understanding in the most species rich tribe of Myrtaceae” (2017) · 160 citations
- Yin-Long Qiu, Associate Professor; Associate Curator, U-M Herbarium h-index 23
Notable: “Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL” (1993) · 2,097 citations
- Gideon Bradburd, Associate Professor; Director for the Frontiers Program h-index 22
S) Spatial population genetics Computational/statistical genomics Coevolution Statistical inference Research Interest We've known for a long time that, in many species, population genetic variation is distributed continuously across space
Notable: “Isolation by environment” (2014) · 961 citations
- Liliana Cortés Ortiz, Associate Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Molecular systematics and biogeography of the Neotropical monkey genus, Alouatta” (2002) · 341 citations
- Xinjun (Jun) Zhang, Assistant Professor of Human Genetics h-index 21
Notable: “Reduced signal for polygenic adaptation of height in UK Biobank” (2019) · 389 citations
- Alison Davis Rabosky, Director of the Museum of Zoology; Associate Professor; Associate Curator h-index 17
Notable: “Coral snakes predict the evolution of mimicry across New World snakes” (2016) · 233 citations
- Luis Zaman, Associate Professor h-index 14
Notable: “Sustained fitness gains and variability in fitness trajectories in the long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli” (2015) · 136 citations
- Anshuman Swain, Assistant Professor; Assistant Curator (UM Museum of Paleontology) h-index 11
Notable: “Ecological Stoichiometry of the Mountain Cryosphere” (2019) · 80 citations
- James Boyko, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Generalized hidden Markov models for phylogenetic comparative datasets” (2020) · 154 citations
- D. André Green II, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Notable: “Observation of a small oligonucleotide duplex by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry” (1993) · 157 citations
- Mia Howard, Assistant Professor h-index 8
S) Plant defense Herbivory Mutualism Plant-microbe interactions Research Interests Unlike most animals, plants can’t run from the creatures that eat them. However, they are masterful chemists and can defend themselves with potent toxins. I
Notable: “Soil microbiome transfer method affects microbiome composition, including dominant microorganisms, in a novel environment” (2017) · 106 citations
- Tina Lasisi, Assistant Professor; LSA Collegiate Fellow h-index 6
Notable: “AAPA Statement on Race and Racism” (2019) · 178 citations
- Morgan McPherson, Lecturer h-index 6
Notable: “Isolation and Analysis of Microbial Communities in Soil, Rhizosphere, and Roots in Perennial Grass Experiments” (2018) · 136 citations
- Laura Eidietis, Lecturer IV; Teaching Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Pacific lamprey climbing behavior” (2008) · 41 citations
- Ben Winger, Associate Professor; Associate Curator, Museum of Zoology; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies h-index 2
Notable: “Observations on the Breeding Biology of Birds in South east Ecuador” (2010) · 15 citations
- Lynn Carpenter, Lecturer / Advisor h-index 1
Notable: “What Factors Influence SNAP Participation? Literature Reflecting Enrollment in Food Assistance Programs From a Social and Behavioral Science Perspective” (2016) · 73 citations
- Carly Nowicki, Lecturer IV
- Jo Kurdziel, Beverly Rathcke Collegiate Lecturer
- Melissa Duhaime, Associate Professor
Notable: “Data for EMSL Project 60397 from October 2024” (2026)
- Shai Revzen, Associate Professor
- Tom Duda, Professor; Curator
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.