Biology at University of California, Riverside

32 faculty and 0 courses in Biology at University of California, Riverside.

Faculty

• Theodore Garland Jr., Faculty h-index 100
  Notable: “TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN COMPARATIVE DATA: BEHAVIORAL TRAITS ARE MORE LABILE” (2003) · 4,434 citations
• David Reznick, Faculty h-index 82
  Notable: “Adaptive versus non‐adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments” (2007) · 3,698 citations
• Michael Allen, Emeritus Faculty h-index 80
  Notable: “FINE ROOT ARCHITECTURE OF NINE NORTH AMERICAN TREES” (2002) · 987 citations
• Derek Roff, Faculty h-index 79
  Es on insects as model systems. In many organisms females (or males) are able to exercise choice among potential mates. Such circumstances are expected to give rise to the joint evolution of female preference and the preferred male trait. S
  Notable: “Natural selection and the heritability of fitness components” (1987) · 1,736 citations
• Mark Springer, Faculty h-index 77
  Notable: “Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification” (2011) · 1,492 citations
• Nickolas Waser, Emeritus Faculty h-index 72
  Notable: “ENDANGERED MUTUALISMS: The Conservation of Plant-Pollinator Interactions” (1998) · 1,820 citations
• John Rotenberry, Emeritus Faculty h-index 69
  General issues in avian ecology, particularly behavioral aspects such as habitat and diet selection, reproductive biology, and community ecology. We are especially interested in modelling habitat associations of passerine bird
  Notable: “On the Use of Demographic Models of Population Viability in Endangered Species Management” (1998) · 1,125 citations
• Marlene Zuk, Emeritus Faculty h-index 61
  Notable: “Heritable True Fitness and Bright Birds: A Role for Parasites?” (1982) · 3,773 citations
• Dmitri Maslov, Faculty h-index 59
  Notable: “Toward the first quantum simulation with quantum speedup” (2018) · 574 citations
• Mary Price, Emeritus Faculty h-index 56
  Notable: “Generalization in Pollination Systems, and Why it Matters” (1996) · 1,940 citations
• Daphne Fairbairn, Emeritus Faculty h-index 56
  Notable: “Allometry for Sexual Size Dimorphism: Pattern and Process in the Coevolution of Body Size in Males and Females” (1997) · 1,057 citations
• Mark Chappell, Faculty h-index 51
  Notable: “The biological control of voluntary exercise, spontaneous physical activity and daily energy expenditure in relation to obesity: human and rodent perspectives” (2010) · 449 citations
• Leonard Nunney, Faculty h-index 47
  Notable: “THE INFLUENCE OF MATING SYSTEM AND OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS ON EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE” (1993) · 490 citations
• Helen Regan, Department Chair h-index 46
  Span Quantitative Conservation Ecology and Probabilistic Risk Assessment. I apply population models, mathematical treatments of uncertainty and decision-making techniques to address conservation and wildlife management issues and ecological
  Notable: “A TAXONOMY AND TREATMENT OF UNCERTAINTY FOR ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY” (2002) · 777 citations
• Marko Spasojevic, Faculty h-index 38
  Notable: “Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming” (2012) · 989 citations
• Joel Sachs, Vice Chair h-index 37
  Evolutionary-Ecological genomics of beneficial bacteria Coevolution of rhizobial-legume symbioses Origins of harmful strains in symbiont populations Macroevolution of symbiotic cooperation Symbiotic bacteria are a key yet poorly understood
  Notable: “The Evolution of Cooperation” (2004) · 1,119 citations
• Wendy Saltzman, Faculty h-index 37
  Notable: “Are subordinates always stressed? a comparative analysis of rank differences in cortisol levels among primates” (2003) · 730 citations
• Irwin Sherman, Emeritus Faculty h-index 36
  Notable: “Biochemistry of Plasmodium (malarial parasites)” (1979) · 505 citations
• Alan Brelsford, Faculty h-index 34
  Notable: “Hybridization and speciation” (2013) · 2,281 citations
• Kimberly Hammond, Faculty h-index 29
  In the area of animal physiological ecology and evolutionary physiology. More specifically, I am interested in how anatomical and physiological capacities meet environmental demands. For instance: when an animal is confronte
  Notable: “Maximal sustained energy budgets in humans and animals” (1997) · 507 citations
• Christopher Clark, Faculty h-index 28
  Notable: “Live migration of virtual machines” (2005) · 2,581 citations
• Morris Maduro, Faculty h-index 27
  Notable: “Identification and cloning of unc-119, a gene expressed in the Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system.” (1995) · 459 citations
• Roger Farley, Emeritus Faculty h-index 27
  Notable: “Functional development in the mauthner cell system of embryos and larvae of the zebra fish” (1977) · 162 citations
• Richard Cardullo, Faculty h-index 24
  Notable: “Detection of nucleic acid hybridization by nonradiative fluorescence resonance energy transfer.” (1988) · 489 citations
• Kurt Anderson, Faculty h-index 23
  Notable: “A cross‐ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades” (2002) · 966 citations
• Edward Platzer, Emeritus Faculty h-index 22
  Notable: “Bacillus thuringiensis crystal proteins that target nematodes” (2003) · 443 citations
• Nicole Rafferty, Faculty h-index 20
  Notable: “Physiological effects of climate warming on flowering plants and insect pollinators and potential consequences for their interactions” (2013) · 304 citations
• Leah Haimo, Emeritus Faculty h-index 20
  Notable: “Bidirectional pigment granule movements of melanophores are regulated by protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation” (1986) · 155 citations
• Clay Sassaman, Emeritus Faculty h-index 20
  Notable: “The Genetic Mechanism of Sex Determination in the Conchostracan Shrimp Eulimnadia texana” (1993) · 129 citations
• Bradley Hyman, Emeritus Faculty h-index 19
  Notable: “Animal mitochondrial DNA recombination” (1997) · 300 citations
• Tracy Kahn, Lecturer h-index 10
  Notable: “Characterization of Expression of Drought- and Abscisic Acid-Regulated Tomato Genes in the Drought-Resistant Species Lycopersicon pennellii” (1993) · 107 citations
• Tim Higham, Faculty

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. 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.