Mark Schwartz: Plant Ecology / Conservation Biology
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CONTACT INFO Office: 2108 Wickson SCHWARTZ LAB Elizabeth Bella--Predictive modeling of invasive plant species expansion in Alaska under global change Susan Cameron--Predictive modeling of community diversity and phylogenetic distance for conservation planning Cerina Lamar--Social capital for conservation and the value of rare plants for driving conservation planning with community development. Tuyeni Mwampamba--Charcoal production, carbon sequestration, energy alternatives and non-market forest value: providing incentive programs for forest conservation in Tanzania Josh O'Brien-- Assessing impacts of global change through a 27 year record of butterfly occurences in California. John Williams--Local and regional phylogenic and biogeographic models of diversity in neotropical dry forests: integrating models into conservation planning Affiliations: Chair, Graduate Group in Ecology, 2004-present. Board of Governors, Society for Conservation Biology, 2006-2009. Faculty affiliate, Center for Population Biology Faculty affiliate,.John Muir Center for the Environment Mark SchwartzFormer graduate students Ron Panzer. Fire and insect conservation in Midwestern prairies. Phil van Mantgem. Fire and forest management in the Sierra Nevada. National Biological Survey. Sequioa/ Kingsd Canyon National Parks. pvanmantgem@usgs.gov Christy Brigham. Kelly Lyons. Jason Hoeksema. Tasila Banda. Sarah Otterstrom. Michele Mills. |
RESEARCH I am a plant ecologist with diverse, primarily conservation-oriented interests. My main research projects include: (a) assessing patterns in the geographic and taxonomic distribution of rare plants in the US and Canada; (b) predicting the effect of habitat fragmentation on distribution shift potentials of trees under global warming scenarios; and (c) monitoring of rare plants performance, including population viability analysis and predictive habitat modeling. I have ongoing long-term monitoring projects on mapped forest plot community dynamics (1986-present) and the population dynamics of the endangered tree, Torreya taxifolia, (1989-present), both in northern Florida. My research over the next several years will focus on: (a) population persistence of rare plants in California urban areas; (b) interactions among native herbivores, fire and livestock on forest stand structure in Tanzanian miombo; and (c) dynamic modeling of mutualisms within the context of economic models. Current students in my lab focus on a diverse suite of projects including: (a) conservation biogeography of trees in dry forests of southern Mexico (J. Williams); (b) energy use and forest consumption in Tanzania (T. Mwampamba); (c) predicting plant invasions in Alaska under global climate (E. Bella); (d) Understanding and utilizing the capacity for rare plants to create social capital in urbanizing regions (C. Lamar); and (e) Predicitve modeling of biodiveristy within Australian Tropical Forests (S. Cameron).
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