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

• Impacts of Nonnative Species on the Health of Natural and Planted Forests (2019)
• Important Insect and Disease Threats to United States Tree Species and Geographic Patterns of Their Potential Impacts (2019)
• Prioritizing the conservation needs of United States tree species: Evaluating vulnerability to forest insect and disease threats (2019)
• Tree diversity regulates forest pest invasion (2019)
• A Subcontinental Analysis of Forest Fragmentation Effects on Insect and Disease Invasion (2018)
• Current Perspectives on Sustainable Forest Management: North America (2018)
• Do United States protected areas effectively conserve forest tree rarity and evolutionary distinctiveness? (2018)
• Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasions (2017)
• Environmental harshness drives spatial heterogeneity in biotic resistance (2018)
• Exposure of Protected and Unprotected Forest to Plant Invasions in the Eastern United States (2018)

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