Biodiversity and Human Well-Being

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Evolutionary, molecular, and genetic analyses of animal behavior and sociality; The genetics of organismal resilience to environmental stress; Drosophila models of neuronal and psychiatric disorders

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecology and conservation of mega vertebrates

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Congo Basin, Galapagos Islands, Central Africa, Saint Louis, MO

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Going Wild in Forest Park: Tracking the Movement of Wildlife and Disease in an Urban Food Web

Primary subject(s) of interest: Virology and virus ecology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  USA

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Land Management Effects on Microbiome Diversity in Disease Vectors

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Palm oil sustainability, public education, local conservation

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Tropical rainforests, Forests, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject of interest: Ecology, taxonomy, and conservation of bryophytes

Primary geographic area of interest: USA, Madagascar, Philippines

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts

Primary subject(s) of interest: Youth civic engagement and place-based education

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Freshwater

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Biodiversity of Freshwater Mussels of the Upper Sangamon River (Illinois): Community Science in Action
• Collaborating with Community Scientists to Improve Conservation: A Case Study with Bee Visitation Networks

Primary subject(s) of interest:  (1) Understanding how diverse microbiomes respond to chemical and biological perturbations, (2) harnessing these insights to rationally design therapeutic strategies to curtail antibiotic-resistant pathogens and remedy pathological microbiome states, and (3) engineering microbial catalysts to convert renewable biomass into value chemicals such as biofuels and pharmaceuticals.

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States, El Salvador, Peru, Pakistan, Niger, South Africa, Republic of Congo, Netherlands, China, India

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Freshwater, Agricultural lands, Urban areas, Built environment

Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecology, conservation, and management of predator-prey species using noninvasive techniques

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States (South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Nebraska, and San Francisco), South America (Argentina), & Asia (Bhutan)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Shrubland, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban areas, Monocultural plantations & fragmented ecosystems

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Ethnobotany, traditional ecological knowledge, community-based conservation, North American biodiversity, invasive species

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States (Appalachia, the Ozarks)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Agricultural land

Primary subject(s) of interest: All Horn if Africa wildlife including Grevy's zebra, hirola, black rhino, mountain nyala, giraffe, African wild ass, and Ethiopian wolf; southeast Asian wildlife, such as banteng; local Missouri wildlife and urban biodiversity

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Horn of Africa, including Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somaliland

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Savanna, Grassland, Deserts, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Evaluating Planned Grazing as an Approach to Improving Rangeland Habitat for Grevy’s Zebra and Pastoralists in Kenya

Primary subject(s) of interest: Anthropology, Archaeology, Asia, Human Ecology, Grassland ecology, Tropical jungles

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Asia-Pacific (Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Grassland, Deserts, Urban areas, Mountains

Primary subject(s) of interest: Agriculture, plant domestication, archaeobotany, ethnobotany, and conservation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Mexico, United States (Mississippi River valley, St Louis Metro area, SE and Southwest US)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Grassland, Freshwater, Deserts, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Circadian rhythms, light pollution, preterm birth, brain cancer

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Deserts, Urban areas

Primary subject of interest:  Genomics, Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Phylogenetics

Primary geographic interest:  Global

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Computer Vision, Remote Sensing, Species Distribution Modeling

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: The ecology, physiology, behavior, learning, and conservation of amphibians, reptiles and birds

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Central and eastern Missouri and central and southern Illinois

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Freshwater, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Lichen taxonomy

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  North America (Interior Highlands, Great Plains, Central Tallgrass Prairie, Great Lakes)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Grassland, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• A Carbon Garden: A Saint Louis-Based Model for Urban Bioenergetics Carbon Capture and Storage

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Urban wildlife, human-wildlife interface

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas

Primary subject of interest: Behavior, genetics, primatology, reproductive management, endocrinology and African Painted Dogs

Primary geographic interest: Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Zoos and ex-situ habitats their wild counterparts inhabit

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Genetic Diversity of Peter's Angola Colobus  Monkey Populations in Northern Tanzania and in United States Zoos

Primary subject(s) of interest: Infectious disease, Antimicrobial stewardship, Implementation science

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States (Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Freshwater, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Land Management Effects on Microbiome Diversity in Disease Vectors
• Microrefugia Against Climate Change

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Vietnam, Indonesia, Ecuador

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Herbarium

Primary subject(s) of interest: Madagascar, animal health as part of One Health, zoo and wildlife medicine, general conservation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Betampona Natural Reserve, Madagascar

Primary subject(s) of interest: Diversification in social insects, evolutionary ecology, and population genetics, urban ecology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:   USA (Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Poetry & Environmental Stewardship; Interdisciplinary Conservation Programming; Language of Conservation

Primary geographic interest: United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Shrubland, Grassland, Freshwater, Marine, Deserts, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Human-animal studies, interspecies communication, environmental narratology, dark sky studies

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Canada, Japan, United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Skies

Primary subject(s) of interest: Museum studies, museum exhibitions, history, contemporary art, anthropology, conservation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: All

Primary subject(s) of interest: History and philosophy of biology and medicine, conservation, biodiversity, ethics

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Floristics, sharing science, the importance of biodiversity and conservation, and the significance of global climate change with the local public, plant taxonomy, natural history collections use and curation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Central America

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Agricultural land, Collection-based

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Public arts and humanities projects--Environment and public space

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  United States (Los Angeles, Saint Louis, Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Taxonomy of Southeast Asian flowering plants, esp. Ebenaceae and Gesneriaceae

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Indonesia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia,

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Onagraceae, conservation, sustainable development, plant geography

Primary subject(s) of interest: Conservation biogeography and global change, using statistical models of populations, species, and ecosystems

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts, Agricultural land

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Microrefugia Against Climate Change

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Environmental health, sustainability, food, security, and biodiversity

Primary geographic interest: Costa Rica, Nigeria, Australia, the United Kingdom, United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Grassland, Freshwater, Agricultural land

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Forest Park Living Lab: Exploring the Biodiversity and Natural History of One of the World's Greatest Parks

Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecosystem coarse-grainability, Emergent simplicity, Microbial eco/evo, Statistical physics

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Lab ecosystem, USA field samples, Global surveys

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Marine, Agricultural land

Primary subject of interest:  Biophilic cities, climate justice, eco-literacy, equity, nature-based solutions for people & climate, urban ecology, urban biodiversity, urban forestry, urban heat island, urban monarch/pollinator conservation.

Primary geographic area of interest: United States and Biophilic Cities

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest:  Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecology and evolution of mosquitoes, urban, invasion, and disease ecology.

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  United States (Saint Louis, MO)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Taxonomy, phylogeny, and evolution of ferns and lycophytes

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Old World/Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Shrubland, Grassland, Caves and subterranean habitats