Movement ecology is the study of how organisms – either animals, plants or microorganisms – move within their environments or ecosystems, such as during daily activities like foraging, or when dispersing across the landscape, or during annual migrations.
Interim Dean
Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Ecology
Graduate Program Faculty
Ecology building, Rm. 190
Office: (706) 542-9251
Fax: (706) 542-4819
saltizer@uga.edu
Assistant Research Scientist
Graduate Program Faculty
Ecology building, Rm. 183
Office: (706) 542-8112
Fax: (706) 542-4819
akdavis@uga.edu
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Joint appointment: Dept. of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine
Ecology building, Rm. 137
Office: (706) 395-5350
Fax: (706) 542-4819
rjhall@uga.edu
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Ecology building, Rm. 188-B
Office: (706) 542-0075
Fax: (706) 542-3344
rholdo@uga.edu
Assistant Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Ecology building, Rm. 194D
takao.sasaki@uga.edu
Monarch butterflies tolerate exposure to neonicotinoids, a widely used class of insecticides, surprisingly well and far better than bees.
Despite their intimidating appearance, the giant yellow and blue-black spiders spreading across the Southeastern U.S. owe their survival to a surprising trait: They’re rather timid.
Odum’s Michelle Evans won the British Ecological Society’s Rachel Carson Prize for her article in People and Nature.