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INTERESTS

1.  Conservation seed physiology of rare species and exotic species

2.  Evolutionary ecology and biogeography of seed dormancy and germination

3.  Ecology of the cedar glade ecosystem

 

FUNDING

Tennessee Division of Natural Heritage (01/02 - 12/02, $ 5,500.00) - Soil seed bank ecology of Spring Creek bladderpod 

Tennessee Division of Natural Heritage (03/06 - 12/06, $ 3,500.00) - Demographic monitoring of Pyne's ground-plum (Astragalus bibullatus) 

EPA STAR Grant (09/05 - 08/07, $ 193,900.00) - Establishment of a 'Center for Cedar Glade Studies' 

NPS Cooperative Conservation Initiative (08/04 - 12/07, $ 53,165.00) - Chinese yam eradication and site restoration

 

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS

1.  Evaluating management of exotics at Stones River National Battlefield 

2.  Management of the exotic Ligustrum sinense in middle Tennessee 

3.  Effects of the exotic Ligustrum sinense on native vegetation 

4.  Flora of Rattlesnake Falls, Maury County, Tennessee 

5.  Seed dispersal of Oenothera macrocarpa 

6.  Identity of Oxalis species in middle Tennessee 

7.  Effects of fertilizers and herbicides on the seed ecology of two rare Paysonia species

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Student Status Project
Lorna Morris Finished May 2001 A comparison of growth and reproductive characteristics of the invasive Ligustrum sinense and the native Forestiera ligustrina
Jennifer Thompson Finished May 2003 Microhabitat differences of two cedar glade species: the federally endangered Dalea foliosa and its congener D. gattingeri
Elizabeth Fitch Finished May 2004 Photoecology of seed germination for two rare Lesquerella species: consequences for management
Laura McCall Finished Aug. 2004 Dispersal characteristics of two native (Cornus amomum, Frangula caroliniana) and two nonnative (Elaeagnus umbellata, Ligustrum sinense) fleshy-fruited shrubs
Rachael Sulkers Finished May 2005 Habitat selection by Henslow's sparrows (Ammodramus henslowii) during the breeding season in the southeastern Highland Rim of Tennessee
M. Shea Cofer Current Determinants of species richness and exotic species invasion on cedar glades in middle Tennessee
Kyle Hurt Current Management of the exotic Ligustrum sinense

   

 

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