In Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB), students learn about how plants and animals interact, behave, evolve, and adapt, from the level of individual organisms to the population, community, and ecosystem levels. Click on an image below to explore just some of the areas of education and research opportunities available to undergraduate students in the EEB department.
Ecology
Nature and environment, species interactions, behavior, competition
Evolution
Natural selection, phylogenetics and systematics, adaptation, traits
Conservation Biology
Climate change, endangered species, habitat loss, invasive species, biodiversity
Plants
Botany, lichens, algae, mosses, flowers, conifers, plant-insect interactions
Animals
Zoology, birds, insects, fish, snakes, amphibians, mammals, parasites