15 faculty and 0 courses in Life & Environmental Sciences at University of California, Merced.
- Sora Kim, Associate Professor h-index 9
Interaction between environmental change and biotic response with temporal and spatial variation using stable isotope analysis; Paleobiology, Macroecology, Elasmobranchs
Notable: “Estimation of carbon storage based on individual tree detection in Pinus densiflora stands using a fusion of aerial photography and LiDAR data” (2010) · 32 citations
- Michael Beman, Associate Professor h-index 6
Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry from mountain peaks to the bottom of the ocean—and how this is changing; Microbiology, Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Climate change
Notable: “Spawning by jumbo squid Dosidicus gigas in San Pedro Mártir Basin, Gulf of California, Mexico” (2006) · 41 citations
- Carolin Frank, Professor
Microbiomes in plants in natural ecosystems; Plant microbiomes—function, community assembly, transmission, and dispersal
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Dumont, Professor
Relationships among form, function and ecology in the evolution of species diversity; Functional Morphology, Ecomorphology
- Emily Jane McTavish, Associate Professor
Evolutionary information from large data sets; Evolutionary Biology, Phylogenetics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology
- Emily Moran, Associate Professor
Observational and experimental ecological data, genetic markers, and statistical and simulation modeling to address plant population biology; Evolutionary ecology of plant responses to environmental change
- Gordon Bennett, Associate Professor
How complex animal-microbe symbioses co-evolve and shape biological diversity; ecological opportunity shapes insect evolution and diversity
- Jason (Jay) Sexton, Associate Professor
Factors determining species distributions; plant adaptation and diversification; Ecological Genetics, Adaptation, Natural History, Conservation Biology, Species Range Limits
- Jessica Blois, Professor
Biodiversity-environment-climate linkages past, present, and future; mammals; data infrastructure; equity and inclusion in biology and earth sciences; Community Ecology, Paleoecology, Paleoinformatics
- Justin Yeakel, Associate Professor
How constraints of organismal physiology drive species interactions in complex ecosystems over thousands to millions of years; Food Webs, Species Interactions, Paleoecology, Macroevolution
- Marilia Palumbo Gaiarsa, Assistant Professor
Empirical and modelling approaches for the role ecological interactions in the maintenance of biodiversity in pollinators; Ecological Networks, Pollination Ecology, Climate Change, Mutualism
- Matt Hutchinson, Assistant Professor
Animal foraging behavior and its impacts on individuals, populations, and ecological communities; Community Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Large Mammals
- Michael Dawson, Professor
Synthetic understanding of the what, where, how, when, and why of species, mostly in the sea; Biogeography, Evolutionary Ecology, and Comparative Genomics
- Susannah Tringe, Adjunct Professor
Sequence-based approaches to studying microbial community assembly, function and dynamics
- Tanja Woyke, Adjunct Professor
Utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of interest
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.