Area(s) of Expertise

Restoration Ecology and Plant Physiology

Education

B.S. Louisiana State University (1980)
Ph.D. North Carolina State University (1985)

Research Interests

Restoration ecology with an emphasis on wetland restoration and creation and reclamation of drastically disturbed lands; Ecology and conservation biology aspects of forest management; Urban natural resource management; Plant physiology and biochemistry.

Publications

• Environmental controls of reproduction and early growth of Lindera melissifolia (Lauraceae) (2014)
• Novel ways to assess forested wetland restoration in North Carolina using ecohydrological patterns from reference sites (2014)
• How management strategies have affected Atlantic White-cedar forest recovery after massive wind damage in the Great Dismal Swamp (vol 262, pg 1337, 2011) (2013)
• Identifying ecohydrological patterns in natural forested wetlands useful to restoration design (2012)
• How management strategies have affected Atlantic White-cedar forest recovery after massive wind damage in the Great Dismal Swamp (2011)
• The human/nature dilemma in ecological restoration (2009)
• Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) management for restoration of native plant communities (2008)
• Thinking locally for urban forest restoration: A simple method links exotic species invasion to local landscape structure (2008)
• Compositional gradients of plant communities in submontane rainforests of eastern Tanzania (2007)
• Effects of vegetation removal on native understory recovery in an exotic-rich urban forest (2007)

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