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Duke University hosts strong individual research programs
in ecology, with highly productive faculty and research scientists in
all levels of biological organization--from the organism to the ecosystem--providing
excellent educational opportunities in ecology at the undergraduate, graduate,
and professional levels. In the disciplinary category "ecology, evolution
and behavior, " Duke was rated as one of the top three programs in
the nation by the National Research Council. Duke's teaching and research
programs are poised to address the basic and applied research problems
in ecology, as expressed by various government agencies and industries,
and summarized by the scientific ecological community (the Ecological
Society of America) in its "Sustainable Biosphere Initiative."
Ecologists participating in the Program represent an array of research
interests spanning basic and applied ecological science. Areas of strength
include global change ecology, evolutionary ecology, and forest and marine
ecology. The Program provides the organizational structure necessary for
graduate students and scientific researchers to integrate their observations
across scales of biological organization and apply their research to pressing
ecological and environmental problems.
Few universities can assemble a program with the quality that we have
at Duke. By their very nature, ecological studies encompass all scientific
disciplines, ranging from biochemical, physiological, and organismal studies
in biology to studies of geology and the atmospheric sciences. The intellectual
focus of the Program reflects this breadth because we are convinced that
a solid ecological training, whether basic or applied, involves interdisciplinary
studies. With the University Graduate Program in Ecology we have created
a leading, interdisciplinary academic program as called for by scientists,
environmental professionals, and national research priorities.
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