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

• Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasions (2018)
• Landscape correlates of forest plant invasions: A high-resolution analysis across the eastern United States (2018)
• Introduction (2017)
• Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States, Alaska and Hawaii from the national insect and disease survey, 2015 (2017)
• Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii (2017)
• Coordinating the IUCN Red List of North American tree species: A special session at the USFS gene conservation of tree species workshop (2017)
• 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)

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