Maile Neel

Portrait of Maile Neel

Maile Neel

Professor
301 405 9780
mneel@umd.edu 6117 Plant Sciences Building

Graduate Program Affiliations

Biological Sciences (BISI): Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES)
Biological Sciences (BISI): Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics (CBBG)
Entomology

Research

The Neel Lab applies and integrates techniques from traditionally disparate fields to  study patterns of biological diversity and the ecological and evolutionary processes that created them. The lab also develops effective conservation approaches to predict the effects of changing ecological patterns and evolutionary processes.

Education

Ph.D. University of California - Riverside, 2000
M.S., University of California - Santa Barbara, 1994
B.A., Humboldt State University, 1985

Latest Papers

Calm after the storm? Similar patterns of genetic variation in a riverine foundation species before and after severe disturbance

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Magdalene N. Ngeve, Katharina A. M. Engelhardt, Michelle Gray, Maile C. Neel


Assessing the Potential to Extrapolate Genetic-Based Restoration Strategies Between Ecologically Similar but Geographically Separate Locations of the Foundation Species Vallisneria americana Michx

| Estuaries and Coasts
Author(s): Brittany W. Marsden, Magdalene N. Ngeve, Katharina A. M. Engelhardt, Maile C. Neel


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