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Richard Tracy, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Summary

My research interests and experience include descriptive ecology, ethology, organismal w88 online casino, population w88 online casino, evolutionary w88 online casino, biophysical ecology, theoretical ecology, and conservation w88 online casino. Some of my particular research interests include

  1. relationships with, and evolutionary adaptations to, limiting and/or influential factors of the environment. I am interested in the physics of interaction, the physiological and behavioral adaptations to interactions, and the ecological and evolutionary significance of such adaptations as well as the mechanistic function of the adaptations and the w88 online casino consequences of organism-environment interactions.
  2. Time and space utilization, sharing and interrelationships among animals. The ecological importance of Grinnellian Niches in organisms, w88 online casino autecological function of these niche relationships in determining distribution, dispersion, dispersal, and population fluctuations. Interrelationships of competitive, predational, and physical environmental influences on the structure of animal populations and communities.
  3. Ecology and w88 online casino of reptilian herbivores.
  4. Design of organisms.
  5. Paleobiology and extinction processes.
  6. Desert w88 online casino, ecology, and conservation.
  7. Conservation w88 online casino.
  8. w88 online casino planning and injecting science into policy

Education

  • B.A., w88 online casino, California State University, Northridge, 1966
  • M.S., w88 online casino, California State University, Northridge, 1968
  • Ph.D., Major Zoology, Minor Botany, w88 online casino of Wisconsin, 1972