Conservation Biology

Studies of threats to biodiversity and of preservation of diversity at organizational levels from the landscape to genetics. Faculty are actively involved in research on conservation genetics, behavioral ecology as it relates to conservation, invasive species, and the dynamics of small populations.

Conservation Biology Faculty

Carol Boggs

We focus on evolutionary, functional and behavioral ecology, with applications to conservation and environmental issues. The major question is how environmental change and variation affect life history traits, population structure and dynamics, and species interactions over ecological and evolutionary time. Environments vary on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Additionally, both the abiotic and biotic components of the environment may vary, for example in cases of species' invasions.

W. Joe Jones

Past Director of the UofSC Genomics facility, Joe Jones's research has focused on conservation genetics, genetic connectivity, and genetics of rare populations (especially in fish and plankton); molecular phylogenetics and ecology, microbial ecology, natural history, and technology development. As the Faculty Principal of Green Quad, his most recent work connects this expertise to undergraduate and graduate hands-on learning experiences in aquaponics and heritage landrace propagation.

John A. Kupfer

Biogeography, landscape ecology, public land and water management, spatial analysis