Research Divisions
The KU Biodiversity Institute studies past and present life on Earth while training the next generation of scientists.
Divisions
Biodiversity Modeling
The description and understanding of species distributions and biodiversity patterns.
Botany
The world’s plants — their global diversity, evolution, geography, genomic, morphology, conservation, ecology, and behavior.
Divisions
Data Management
Researching large-scale data interoperability for the earth and life sciences.
Entomology
The world's insects — their global diversity, evolution, geography, genomic, morphology, conservation, ecology, and behavior.
Herpetology
The systematics, evolution, biogeography, genetics, morphology, conservation, ecology, and behavior of reptiles and amphibians.
Divisions
Ichthyology
Evolution, biodiversity, genomics, morphology, ecology, biogeography, and life history of fishes.
Informatics
A multidisciplinary unit of biologists and software engineers which develops and supports software for biological collections research.
Invertebrate Paleontology
The world’s fossil invertebrates – their relevance to evolutionary theory, their phylogenetic significance, as well as their paleobiogeography, paleoecology, and morphology.
Divisions
Invertebrate Zoology
The world’s parasites — their global diversity, evolution, geography, genomics, morphology, conservation, ecology, and behavior.
Mammalogy
The world's mammals — their global diversity, evolution, geography, genomics, morphology, conservation, ecology, and behavior.
Ornithology
The world's birds — their species limits and species diversity, evolution, geography, genetics and genomics, morphology, conservation, ecology and behavior.
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Paleobotany
Plants in the geologic past—their global diversity, evolution, geography, structure, morphology, and ecology, as well as the stewardship of the collections for future generations.
Paleontological Institute
We work with the global paleontological community to create, collect, publish and disseminate expert, vetted knowledge and data on invertebrate paleontology.
Phylogenetic Modeling
The Phylogenetic Modeling division is focused on phylogenetic inference. Researcher Mark Holder is interested in both the statistical basis of tree estimation and the wide range of algorithms used to exploit phylogenies to answer evolutionary questions.
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Vertebrate Paleontology
The world’s prehistoric vertebrates — their global diversity, phylogeny, macroevolutionary patterns, historical biogeography, morphology, paleoecology, and behavior.
Symbiota
A multidisciplinary development and support team for Symbiota, an open-source software for managing and mobilizing biodiversity data.