Research in this area is focused on the origin, maintenance and demise of plant biodiversity, from sequences and genomes to populations, species and their interactions. The group possesses strengths in systematics, the evolution and population genetics of plant sexual systems, in molecular evolution of sex chromosomes and species divergence, and in the ecology of plant-animal interactions.
- Ecological communities - Prof Lindsay Turnbull
- Forest genomics - Prof John Mackay
- Grassland/forest biodiversity - Prof Andrew Hector
- Landscape ecology - Dr Tonya Lander
- Reproduction genetics/evolution - Prof Simon Hiscock
- Sexual evolution - Professor Dmitry Filatov
- Systematics - Professor Robert Scotland
- Systematics & conservation - Dr Stephen Harris