Area(s) of Expertise

Conservation Genetics, Landscape Ecology, Forest Health, Landscape Genetics, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Ecology

Education

B.A. Drake University (1993)
M.S. North Carolina State University (2002)
Ph.D. North Carolina State University (2006)

Research Interests

Landscape genetics; Evolutionary ecology; Forest tree population genetics; Gene conservation; Landscape ecology; Biodiversity; Forest health; Invasive species.

Publications

• Population isolation results in unexpectedly high differentiation in Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana), an imperiled southern Appalachian endemic conifer (2017)
• Macro-scale assessment of demographic and environmental variation within genetically derived evolutionary lineages of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), an imperiled conifer of the eastern United States (2017)
• Divergence of species responses to climate change (2017)
• Prioritizing conservation seed banking locations for imperiled hemlock species using multi-attribute frontier mapping (2017)
• A United States national prioritization framework for tree species vulnerability to climate change (2017)
• Banking on the future: progress, challenges and opportunities for the genetic conservation of forest trees (2017)
• Species pool, human population, and global versus regional invasion patterns (2017)
• Pinus ponderosa: A checkered past obscured four species (2017)
• Interactions between white-tailed deer density and the composition of forest understories in the northern United States (2017)
• Biological invasion hotspots: A trait-based perspective reveals new sub-continental patterns (2016)

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