Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of Colorado Boulder Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is a 32-PI network with 17 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Agricultural and Biological Sciences as the leading field (29% of slots across 19 PIs; 19 labels), Ecology as the leading subfield (17% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels), and Plant and animal studies as the leading topic (11% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Noah Fierer (12.8 weighted works; Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure); Michael D. Breed (12.6 weighted works; Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and animal studies). The clearest collaboration lines are William W. Adams and Barbara Demmig‐Adams (8 shared works, weight 6.2). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 7 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 9.3, around Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, led by Noah Fierer, Erin A. Tripp, Rebecca J. Safran; group 2 with 6 PIs, 6 internal connections, weight 4.5, around Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, led by Steven K. Schmidt, Scott Ferrenberg, Timothy R. Seastedt.