Figures from L to R: Spatially explicit simulation of a mixed dispersal strategy, statistics explaining percolation on a landscape from Achter and Webb 2006 Th. Pop. Bio., general form of fast-slow dynamical equations describing an evolutionary ecology model, dynamics of plague epizootics in prairie dogs from Webb et al. 2006 PNAS.

In the Webb lab, we are broadly interested in the evolution of traits important in ecological interactions and how such evolution shapes ecosystems. We use quantitative tools including dynamical systems, computer simulation and applied statistical approaches to investigate a number of ecological and evolutionary questions. Check out our research projects for more details, but examples of general questions we are currently addressing are:

What do trait-based approaches tell us about ecosystem level response to environmental change?

What mechanisms affect the dynamics of disease prevalence in diseases like plague and rabies?

How does the spatial distribution of organisms impact their response to spatially spreading disturbances?

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