{"id":227,"date":"2013-10-15T16:13:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/biosci\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:24:44","slug":"ecology-evolution-and-behavior","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/biology\/research\/ecology-evolution-and-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About the Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The EEB Research Group strives to understand the natural world through the lens of broad conceptual theory supported by empirical evidence. Our faculty and students share a common interest in understanding how organisms function, how they interact with other species and with the environment, and how reproductive strategies, sexually-selected traits, disease resistance, and physiology evolve over space and time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We study the evolution, behavior, physiology, and ecology of animals, plants, and microbes that live in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Our research often combines extensive field work in locations such as kelp beds off the coast of California, rainforest in Belize, and wetlands in Wisconsin with elegant experiments in the greenhouse and laboratory. Our interdisciplinary studies incorporate cutting edge approaches in population and quantitative genetics, genomics, ecophysiology and animal behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major areas of research emphasis include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n