昆虫学哲学博士-生态，保护，修复，气候变化

昆虫学系广泛地代表了生态学方面的专业知识，包括行为生态学，化学和微生物生态学，植物-昆虫和捕食者-猎物的相互作用，种群和食物网的动态以及社区生态学。昆虫学系的教职员工还致力于将生态学理论应用于生物防治，害虫管理，栖息地恢复和保护生物学。马里兰州有着悠久而丰富的生物防治传统，涉及与联邦，州和县级机构以及私营企业的合作项目。由NSF和USDA支持的积极研究计划正在自然系统和受管系统中进行。
Expertise in ecology is broadly represented in the Department of Entomology and includes behavioral ecology, chemical and microbial ecology, plant-insect and predator-prey interactions, population and food-web dynamics, and community ecology. Entomology Department faculty also maintain a commitment to the application of ecological theory to biological control, pest management, habitat restoration, and conservation biology. Maryland has a long and rich tradition of biological control involving collaborative projects with federal, state, and county agencies, and with private industry. Active research programs supported by NSF and USDA are ongoing in both natural and managed systems. Current research efforts emphasize the conservation of natural enemies, augmentative releases, and investigations into the basic ecology and behavior of natural enemies. Concerning pest management at large, research projects include the use of transgenic crops, the isolation of bioactive substances from microbial symbionts of insects, and the identification and incorporation of genes from entomopathogenic fungi into plants. Recently, several faculty members have extended their ecological expertise to address other applied problems associated with the consequences of transgenic crops on non-target organisms, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity, and the disturbance food-web dynamics.