Affiliated Faculty of the CCB
Center for Conservation Biology UCR Affiliates
(alphabetical by last name)
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Hoori Ajami Understanding large scale terrestrial hydrologic processes in response to climate variability and land cover change. |
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Title: Emeritus, Professor of Plant Ecology, & CE Natural Resources Specialist My research area is plant ecology, with emphasis on restoration ecology, soil ecology, and invasive species ecology. I work primarily in California shrublands, grasslands, and deserts, including sites impacted by anthropogenic nitrogen deposition, urbanization, grazing, agriculture, invasive species and frequent fire. Members of my lab currently study impacts of invasive species and nitrogen deposition on plant-soil feedbacks, biodiversity decline, productivity, competitive hierarchies and functional traits of native and exotic species, vegetation type conversion, diversity and functioning of mycorrhizal fungi, nutrient dynamics, and restoration of impacted ecosystems. |
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Title: Emeritus, Professor of Plant Pathology and Professor of Biology My interests focus on the regulation of community and ecosystem processes by soil organisms with special emphasis on mycorrhizal fungi. My current research concentrates on global change dynamics and structure of undisturbed areas, and how that information can be utilized in the conservation and restoration of native ecosystems. |
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Juliann Allison
Title: Chair & Associate Professor |
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Kurt Anderson
Title: Associate Professor of Biology |
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Title: Assistant Professor |
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Title: Associate Provost Analysis of land use and land cover change in shade-grown coffee regions of Veracruz, Mexico. |
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Title: Associate Professor Airborne, ground-based, and laboratory measurements of aerosol composition and microphysical properties |
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Cameron Barrows Title: Associate Researcher Ecologist I have been a research ecologist with the Center for Conservation Biology for over a decade; my research focuses on the impacts of environmental change on the biota of the southwestern |
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Title: Assistant Specialist CE Travis Bean is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in Weed Science at the University of California, working with invasive plants of natural and managed systems from Mendocino to Imperial. His research and extension program broadly focuses on increasing the efficacy of invasive plant management while mitigating negative impacts from treatments, and utilizing phenology to guide treatment timing and selectivity. |
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Title: Assistant Professor My lab uses high-throughput sequencing and genomics tools to explore the biodiversity, evolution, and phylogeography of microbial eukaryotes in soils and marine sediments, with an emphasis on free-living marine nematodes. |
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Mark Chappell Title: Professor of Biology I study ecological and evolutionary physiology, as it pertains to distributions and limits, most recently with birds from the tropical Andes. |
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Title: Assistant Professor I study the biology of birds, particularly hummingbirds, including their ecology and conservation. |
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Title: Associate Extension Specialist Our research focuses on the ecology and management of invasive arthropods and plant disease in natural and agricultural ecosystems. |
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Title: Assistant Professor of Plant Ecology I am a community ecologist studying how multiple global changes, such as climate change and species invasions, are reshuffling ecological communities, and what this reshuffling means for patterns of species distributions and biodiversity. |
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Title: Professor of Genetics & Geneticist My current research focuses on the potential downsides of plant gene flow and hybridization, such as the evolution of invasive species. |
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Title: Associate CE Specialist in Coop Ext. and My primary research interests include the biology, detection, epidemiology, and control of fungal pathogens including new potential threats, and addresses how these pathogens interact to contribute to plant decline. I use a combination of lab and field-based techniques to identify fungal pathogens and develop treatment strategies for pathogen control. Currently, I'm studying on biology, epidemiology control of a new invasive pest and diseases complex on subtropical crops and tree species in native vegetation |
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Title: Distinguished Professor and Biogeographer |
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Jennifer Gee |
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Sydney Glassman My research focuses on understanding patterns and processes governing microbial diversity, and their ecosystem functions such as terrestrial symbioses and decomposition. I am particularly interested in microbial biogeography and how dispersal and disturbances such as wildfires and invasive pathogens affect microbial succession and community composition. I specialize in fungi, particularly ectomycorrhizal fungi, but I am broadly interested in fungal ecology and how fungal-bacterial and fungal-plant interactions shape fungal ecology. |
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Title: Assistant Professor Our research group is interested in the physical and biotic drivers of watershed processes, including water quality, sediment transport, and geomorphology, over event to millennial time scales. |
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Title: Director of Motte/Emerson Reserves I am director of the Motte Rimrock Reserve and involved in Conservation Biology efforts in Southern California. |
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Title: Assistant Specialist in Coop Ext. The overarching goal of my research program is to investigate and develop new methods and / or improve existing methods that will result in effective management and conservation strategies of limited water resources. |
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Title: Extension Specialist I work on the classical biological control of invasive arthropod pests, some of which are significant problems of wilderness areas. |
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Title: Assistant Professor I study interactions between microbes and the soil physical environment (e.g., the implications of how microbes respond to physical stress) across spatial and temporal scales, while focusing on the exchange of elements (e.g., C, N, and P) across the soil–atmosphere and soil–water interfaces. My work evaluates microbial and abiotic controls on soil trace gas emissions, the fate of microbial C, and how these processes are influenced by environmental factors (e.g., moisture and resource availability). |
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Title: Director, Center for Conservation Biology I am a functional landscape ecologist who studies interactions of land use and climate on ecosystem functioning in urban, agricultural, and wildlands of southern California. |
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Title: Assistant Professor As an ecologist, my research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that contribute to species coexistence and patterns of biodiversity to address the challenges that plant invasions and environmental change pose to restoration and management practices. |
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Title: Professor of Ecology Larry Li uses mathematical, statistical and computational modeling applied in ecological studies, and has involved in the Center’s activities since early 2000s, especially in spatial structure of multispecies distributions in southern California, tolerance analysis of habitat loss for multispecies conservation in western Riverside County, CA, phase coupling and spatial synchrony of subpopulations of an endangered dune lizard, and land use change in Riverside County, CA. |
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Title: Asst. Professor & Asst. Biologist of We are studying the genetic basis of plant diversity at multiple scales, including how to use molecular data in combination with morphological and environmental data to define and identify species in poorly differentiated groups, using manzanitas as a study system. |
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Title: Assistant Professor The McFrederick lab studies the conservation of wild and managed pollinators via the study of symbiosis. |
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Title: CE Plant Biotechnologist and Geneticist My work is focused on agricultural biotechnology, specifically how biotechnology is impacting sustainable agriculture and conservation efforts, and how appropriate regulations help assure safe and effective use of various genetic tools. |
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Title: Professor of Geography Fire scientist on Mediterranean ecosystems in California and Baja California using "space-time" approach in which landscape changes are traced historical aerial photographs, space imagery, written and photographic records, and geographic information systems. |
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Title: Assistant Professor My research focuses on how phenotypic plasticity in plants in response to changing climates or biotic interactions is adaptive, and how the various phenotypes we see in nature determine species interactions. |
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Title: Assistant Professor of Network Ecology I am interested in identifying how species and interactions reassemble and dissemble in response to restoration or global change, and how those communities are functionally different from those in more ``natural'' habitats. I am a new Assistant Professor in Entomology and a new member of CCB. |
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Title: Asst. Professor My work uses chemical transport models to explore the causes and consequences of air pollution. |
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Title: Assistant Professor My research focuses on how climate change-induced shifts in phenology and distribution affect plants, pollinators, and their interactions. |
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Title: Assistant Professor My research focuses on investigating species interactions and their effects on trophic dynamics and ecosystem services within the contexts of invasion biology, community ecology and evolutionary ecology. |
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Title: Chair, EEOB My research focuses on the construction and application of ecological modes to understand the impacts of global change on biodiversity, as well as examining the role uncertainty plays using ecological models to inform conservation decisions. |
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Title: Dept. Vice Chair The Sachs Lab studies plant microbe interactions to understand the forces that shape plant productivity and diversity. |
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Title: Associate Professor of My research focuses on drought resistance of plants in natural ecosystems |
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Title: Professor of My research applies economic principles and tools to evaluate the benefits and costs of policies, actions, and factors that impact the environment. |
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Title: Professor of Hydrology Dr. James Sickman is a Professor of Hydrology and Biogeochemistry who manages the CCB’s Facility for Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and supports the use of stables in ecological and environmental science research at UC Riverside. |
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Title: Professor of “Numerical modeling of vadose zone processes” |
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Title: Assistant Professor I am working at the interface of ecology, biogeography and conservation with the broad goal of understanding the mechanisms that influence patterns of biodiversity, and then using that understanding to address environmental issues. |
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Title: Associate Professor I am an archaeologist working on questions of long-term human-landscape relationships in the Yucatan Peninsula and collaborate with various faculty in the CCB. |
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Lynn Sweet Title: Associate Specialist I am a research associate for CCB, involved in conservation and monitoring projects including vegetation mapping, species distribution modeling, and invasive species studies within the southern California inland desert region. |
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Chikako Takeshita Title: Associate Professor I am a science and technology studies scholar whose work includes analyses of the discourse of sustainability. |
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Title: Professor I am director of the interdisciplinary Sustainability major (B.S.) offered by the Gender and Sexuality Studies Department in collaboration with 19 other departments across the UCR campus. |
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Title: Department Vice Chair Dr. Walton works on the conservation of native fishes and wetland ecosystems with an emphasis on aquatic insects. |