Editors for Ecology
Senior editors
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George H Perry
Pennsylvania State University, United States
George Perry received his PhD in 2008 from Arizona State University, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. In 2011, he began a faculty position at Penn State University, where he is now Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology, Chair of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Graduate Degree Program, and member of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. His research interests focus on human evolution, evolutionary ecology, and evolutionary medicine, and how human behavior and biology have affected non-human evolutionary biology. Research methods and theory from anthropology, evolutionary biology, parasitology, and population, comparative, functional, and paleo (ancient DNA) genomics are integrated in this work. He has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation, among others.
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Ecology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolutionary biology
- population genomics
- evolutionary ecology
- paleogenomics
- ancient DNA
- human evolution
- Experimental organism
- human
- non-human primates
- parasites
- Competing interests statement
- George Perry has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. He is currently an Associate Editor of Evolutionary Anthropology.
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Christian Rutz
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Christian Rutz is Professor of Biology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he heads a research group studying animal tool behaviour. He combines observational, experimental and theoretical approaches, to investigate why tool use is so rare across the animal kingdom, and how rudimentary technologies advance and diversify. Since 2005, he has been leading a long-term field project on New Caledonian crows – tropical birds that have the remarkable ability to fashion complex foraging tools from plant materials. Rutz led the team that discovered in 2013 that the critically-endangered Hawaiian crow is also a highly skilled tool user, opening up exciting opportunities for comparative research. He has pioneered the use of miniature, animal-borne video-cameras and proximity loggers for studying wild birds, and currently serves as Founding President of the International Bio-Logging Society. With long-standing interests in conservation biology and science policy making, he is currently contributing to efforts to extend the scope of UNEP’s Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS). Rutz obtained his doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar from the University of Oxford, was subsequently awarded a £1.44-million David Phillips Research Fellowship to establish an independent research group (first at Oxford, and later at St Andrews), and held visiting appointments at the Universities of Oxford, Tokyo and New South Wales. His research has attracted a string of academic awards – including the 2014 Isambard–Kingdom–Brunel Award (British Science Association), the 2014 Hans Löhrl Prize (German Ornithologists’ Union), and the 2013 Marsh Award for Innovative Ornithology (British Trust for Ornithology) – and was showcased at the 2017 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London, UK. Rutz was elected in 2013 to the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland (YAS), and has recently been named the 2019–2020 Grass Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, USA. Christian Rutz's broad areas of expertise are behavioural ecology, evolutionary ecology, urban ecology, comparative cognition, field ornithology and bio-logging science.
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Research focus
- tool behaviour
- social learning and cultural evolution
- animal behaviour and cognition
- foraging ecology
- predator-prey systems
- urban ecology
- conservation biology
- policy making
- animal tracking (bio-logging/bio-telemetry)
- Experimental organism
- crow
- raptors
- birds
- human
- Competing interests statement
- Christian Rutz is employed by the University of St Andrews, UK, holds a Senior Visiting Fellowship at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and is the 2019–2020 Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, USA. Most of his research was, and still is, funded by competitive grants from the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). He was an elected member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland (YAS), and is presently serving as Founding President of the International Bio-Logging Society, Scientific Advisor for UNEP’s Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), and Editor of Ethology.
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Meredith C Schuman
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Meredith Schuman (Merry) is an Assistant Professor in Spatial Genetics, Departments of Geography and Chemistry, University of Zurich and a member of the Remote Sensing Laboratories and the University Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity at the University of Zurich. Her background is in the chemical ecology and functional genetics of plant interactions, and plant ecophysiology. She works on projects combining direct analyses of plant tissue, and remote sensing techniques with the aim of developing approaches to assess genetic and chemotypic variation, plasticity, and adaptive potential within plant species, and their interactions in the context of global change. She was previously a Group Leader in the Department of Molecular Ecology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPICE) in Jena and a Junior Group Leader in the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) on the ecological functions of plant genes.
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- chemical ecology
- spatial ecology
- plant interactions
- functional genetics
- intraspecific diversity
- Competing interests statement
- Merry's position and her research is currently supported by the NOMIS foundation (grant to Michael Schaepman, University of Zurich, project: Remotely Sensing Ecological Genomics) and the University of Zurich, including the Departments of Geography and Chemistry and the University Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity in which she is a PI. From November 2020 her work will also be funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 program (UPSCALE consortium, grant number 861998, co-PI and work package lead).
Reviewing editors
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Christine Beemelmanns
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Germany
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Ecology
- Research focus
- microbe-host interactions
- natural products
- total synthesis
- symbiosis
- bioorganic synthesis
- sphingolipids
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Patrícia Beldade
University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Ecology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- eco-evo-devo
- phenotypic variation
- developmental plasticity
- pigmentation patterns
- evolutionary novelty
- genetics of diversification
- butterfly wing patterns
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Yuxin Chen
Xiamen University, China
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Research focus
- community ecology
- forest
- demography
- biodiversity
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Sarah E Cobey
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Medicine
- Research focus
- B cells
- coevolution
- infectious disease dynamics
- influenza
- mathematical modelling
- vaccination
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Maureen L Coleman
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Ecology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- microbial ecology
- bacterial genomics
- bacteriophage-host interactions
- viral ecology
- microbial phototrophy
- stress response
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Barnabas Daru
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Research focus
- biogeography
- natural history collections
- vascular plants
- phyloregions
- phylogeny
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Alok Dhawan
Centre of Biomedical Research, India
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Ecology
- Research focus
- molecular epidemiology
- DNA damage and repair
- genetic toxicology
- nanomaterial toxicology
- environmental health
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David Donoso
Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- community ecology
- global warming
- soil organisms
- tropical forests
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Rosalyn Gloag
University of Sidney, Australia
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Ecology
- Research focus
- invasive species
- population genetics
- brood parasitism
- social parasitism
- eusociality
- Experimental organism
- birds
- bees
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Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
Brown University, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- natural selection
- population demography
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Nizar Ibrahim
University of Portsmouth, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- vertebrate palaeontology
- morphology anatomy
- dinosaur evolution
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Yaroslav Ispolatov
Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- evolution
- diversification
- adaptive dynamics
- ecology
- systems biology
- CRISPR
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Youngsung Joo
Seoul National University, South Korea
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Research focus
- plant-mediated insect interactions
- plant-herbivore interactions
- volatile-mediated interactions
- plant defense
- climate changes
- endophytic herbivores
- Experimental organism
- plants
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Ammie K Kalan
University of Victoria, Canada
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- acoustic monitoring
- animal communication
- animal behaviour
- conservation
- primatology
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Merijn R Kant
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- plant defense
- biological control
- adaptation
- co-evolution
- pest formation
- effectors
- susceptibility
- resistance
- defense suppression
- Experimental organism
- insects
- mites
- plants
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Daniel J Kliebenstein
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- genetics
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- metabolomics
- pathogen
- plant metabolism
- fitness
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- B. cinerea
- eudicots
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David Lentink
University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- animal locomotion
- comparative biomechanics
- animal navigation
- movement ecology
- evolutionary biology
- biofluids
- biophysics
- bioinspired robotics
- bioinspiration & biomimetics
- Experimental organism
- birds
- insects
- bats
- plant seeds
- fish
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David Marjanovic
Museum für Naturkunde, Germany
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- vertebrate palaeontology
- morphology
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Daniel R Matute
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- genetic mechanisms
- evolutionary consequences
- reproductive isolation
- speciation
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James M McCaw
The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Ecology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- mathematical epidemiology
- virus dynamics
- infectious diseases
- mathematical modelling
- pandemics
- influenza
- malaria
- COVID-19
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Sara Mitri
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- microbial ecology and evolution
- mathematical modelling
- synthetic ecology
- interspecies interactions
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Chima Nwaogu
University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Research focus
- seasonality
- breeding
- moult
- eco-immunology
- body mass variation
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Lauren O'Connell
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- behavior
- evolution
- predator-prey interactions
- toxins
- communication
- sensory systems
- Experimental organism
- amphibians
- lizards
- fish
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David A Paz-Garcia
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Mexico
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- marine life
- coral reefs
- phylogenomics
- population genomics
- morphometrics
- gene expression
- statistics
- coding
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Paul Rainey
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- adaptive radiation
- evolution of individuality
- evolutionary genetics
- ecological genetics
- emergence of infectious diseases
- forecasting evolution
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Sergio Rasmann
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- chemical ecology
- plant-animal interactions
- plant ecology
- herbivory
- phytochemistry
- biotic interactions
- plant-microbe interactions
- soil ecology
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Yonatan Sahle
University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- hominin evolution
- paleolithic archaeology
- stone tools
- zooarchaeology
- hunting
- bone surface modification
- paleoanthropology
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Bernhard Schmid
University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- plant ecology
- evolutionary ecology
- biodiversity
- ecosystem functioning
- community ecology
- experimental ecology
- Experimental organism
- seed plants
- grassland
- forest
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Wenying Shou
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- quantitative biology
- mathematical biology
- evolutionary biology
- synthetic biology
- molecular genetics
- evolution of cooperation
- computer simulations
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Daniel Y Takahashi
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- social interaction
- vocal learning
- neurophysiology
- computational modeling
- ontogeny of behavior
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Kristin Tessmar-Raible
University of Vienna, Austria
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- chronobiology
- marine
- photobiology
- rhythms
- clocks
- physiology
- Experimental organism
- platynereis
- clunio
- danio
- medakafish
- oryzias
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Jenny Tung
Duke University, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- social behaviour
- evolutionary ecology
- evolutionary functional genomics
- hybridization
- Experimental organism
- primates
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Yuuki Y Watanabe
Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Japan
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Research focus
- biologging
- behavioral ecology
- marine biology
- Experimental organism
- fish
- seabird
- marine mammal
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Justin Yeakel
University of California, Merced, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- theoretical ecology
- population dynamics
- macroevolution
- paleobiology
- complex systems
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Min Zhu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- paleobiology
- vertebrate paleontology
- evolutionary biology
- systematics
- morphology
- paleobiogeography
- ichthyology
- Experimental organism
- E. primordialis
- G. oneiros
- Q. rostrata
