
Kaufman, Les
Our laboratory is devoted to understanding the creation, maintenance, extinction, and conservation of aquatic diversity.
- Effects of human activities on structure and function of aquatic ecosystems; marine reserves and zoning schemes as adaptive management experiments.
- New diagnostics for marine ecosystem health and resilience
- Spatial scaling of animal movements, population structure, and food web dynamics
- Functional biology of fishes and marine invertebrates
- Response of marine communities to the components of climate change
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Macroevolutionary processes in African great lakes cichlids
- Spatial effects in diversity maintenance and cladogenesis
- Brood capture and parent-offspring relationships in neotropical cichlids
- Structural plasticity and life history in tropical rainforest trees
