Welcome to the Voyles Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno!
Resilience in a Changing World
Life on Earth is changing rapidly. Understanding how organisms, populations, and species respond to these changes is critical for protecting biodiversity and maintaining healthy ecosystems. Our research focuses on biological resilience, i.e., the capacity of living systems to withstand, recover from, or adapt to disturbance.
We study how wildlife responds to major threats such as emerging infectious diseases, habitat loss, and climate and land-use change. By examining these processes across temperate and tropical regions, and across biological scales (from microbes to whole ecosystems), we seek to understand how some organisms, populations, and species persist while others do not.
Our work integrates field and laboratory research from multiple biological sub-disciplines, including microbiology, immunology, disease ecology, evolutionary biology, allowing us to answer previously intractable questions about resilience. Looking ahead, we aim to understand how global change will reshape living systems and the natural world. Doing so will provide invaluable support for the conservation of vulnerable species and help build a more resilient future.
Resilience in a Changing World
Life on Earth is changing rapidly. Understanding how organisms, populations, and species respond to these changes is critical for protecting biodiversity and maintaining healthy ecosystems. Our research focuses on biological resilience, i.e., the capacity of living systems to withstand, recover from, or adapt to disturbance.
We study how wildlife responds to major threats such as emerging infectious diseases, habitat loss, and climate and land-use change. By examining these processes across temperate and tropical regions, and across biological scales (from microbes to whole ecosystems), we seek to understand how some organisms, populations, and species persist while others do not.
Our work integrates field and laboratory research from multiple biological sub-disciplines, including microbiology, immunology, disease ecology, evolutionary biology, allowing us to answer previously intractable questions about resilience. Looking ahead, we aim to understand how global change will reshape living systems and the natural world. Doing so will provide invaluable support for the conservation of vulnerable species and help build a more resilient future.
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