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DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Welcome to the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. EEB is in the top 10% of ecology programs in North America based on research impact (Keville et al., 2017), ahead of peer institutions such as UCLA and UC San Diego. Our faculty and students come from around the globe. Our faculty is a mix of internationally known senior researchers and an energetic group of junior faculty at the cutting edges of their fields. We train graduate and undergraduate students with research interests in ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, conservation biology, behavioral and population genetics, computational biology, development of theory for evolution and ecology, ecosystem and community ecology, global change biology, diverse areas of organismal biology, and biology education.

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EEB FACULTY

EEB faculty are a group of highly interdisciplinary researchers whose expertise cover the broad range of important research in ecology, evolution and behavior, and beyond. Faculty are quantitative and focus on big data and models, and their work is organismal based, including working on human-nature interactions. Faculty members’ research informs and enriches their teaching.

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EEB in the News

  • UT Researchers dig at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, surrounded by trees, plants, and shrubbery.
    Research Shows Warming Impact on Soil EcosystemFebruary 19, 2026
    Within only a few decades of higher temperatures, microbial systems change in ways that disrupt carbon and nutrient cycles. 
  • The sun shines through snow covered trees and snow covered grass.
    Stephanie Kivlin in ‘The Conversation:’ Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrubFebruary 19, 2026
    When you look out across a snowy winter landscape, it might seem like nature is fast asleep. Yet, under the surface, tiny organisms are hard at work, consuming the previous year’s dead plant material and other organic matter.
  • A yellow-green beetle rests on a green leaf.
    Some dung beetles dig deep to keep their eggs coolFebruary 17, 2026
    In the face of global warming, some dung beetles may already have a survival strategy. 

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