Department of Ecology Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers SEBS

Students identify trees in the Hutcheson Memorial Forest

Student evaluating a plant for potential inclusion in a course project

student using a microscope to study a sample

Nicole Guido using a caliper to take measurements on a bird

Photo: Pam Soltis, professor Lena Struwe, and president Mark Fishbein

Lena Struwe Receives American Society of Plant Taxonomists' 2019 Peter Raven Award for Exceptional Outreach to Non-Scientists

ASPT Award Announcement

Photo: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment front cover June 2019

Exotic Pet Trade Leads to Several Hundred Non-Native and Invasive Animal Species

News Story in Mongabay

Article in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Photo: acer male this year female last year. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Blake-Mahmud

Switching It Up: Striped Maple Trees Change Sex, with Females More Likely to Die

News Story in NewScientist

Article in Annals of Botany

About Us

Our interdisciplinary department specializes in ecology, evolution, and natural resource conservation. We study the evolutionary origins and maintenance of biodiversity, conserving and restoring native ecosystems, and issues of global change such as managing natural resources within urban ecosystems.