Levin, Simon Asher
Adjunct Professor and George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University
research
research and scholarship focus
- Understanding how macroscopic patterns and processes are maintained at the level of ecosystems and the biosphere, in terms of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that operate primarily at the level of organisms
- Evolution of diversification, the mechanisms sustaining biological diversity in natural systems, and the implications for ecosystem structure and functioning
- Development of macroscopic descriptions for the collective behavior of large and heterogeneous ensembles that are subject to continual evolutionary modification
- Evolution and ecology of dispersal in plant communities, marine open-ocean and intertidal systems
- Self-organization and evolution of strain structure in influenza A
- Conservation implications of the basic ecological work, with emphasis on reserve design and on economic linkages
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Applied Mathematics | graduate field
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Center for Applied Mathematics (CAM) | research center
external academic affiliation
- Princeton Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | other university department