Mark Schwartz: Plant Ecology / Conservation Biology
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CONTACT INFO Office: 2108 Wickson SCHWARTZ LAB Tuyeni Mwampamba (2009)--Charcoal production, carbon sequestration, energy alternatives and non-market forest value: providing incentive programs for forest conservation in Tanzania Josh O'Brien (2009)-- Assessing impacts of global change through a 32 year record of butterfly occurences in California. Christopher Dolanc (~2011)-- climate change and sub-alpine forest vegetation Iara Lacher (`2012)-- patterns of rarity in plants and climate change. Susana Cardenas (~2012)-- global change and the moist forests of the Galapagos. Casey Peters (~2012)--Grassland Restoration ecology in coastal California. Affiliations: Director, John Muir Institute of Environment, July 1, 2009- Chair, Graduate Group in Ecology, 2004-2009. 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 Sophia Gehlhausen (1994). MS. The ecology of forest edges. Dr. Ron Panzer (1996). Northeastern University. Fire and insect conservation in Midwestern prairies. Jennifer Riggle (1998). Dr. Phil van Mantgem (2000). USGS Biological Resources Division. Arcata, CA. Dr. Christy Brigham (2003). Restoration Ecologist. Santa Monica National Recreation Area. Dr. Kelly Lyons (2003). Assistant Professor. Trinity University, San Antonia, TX. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in grassland systems. Dr. Jason Hoeksema (2004). Assistant Professor. University of Mississippi. Linking fungal and plant community ecology. Dr. Sarah Otterstrom (2006). Paso Pacifico, A Nicaragua based conservation NGO. Founder and President. Dr. Michele Mills (2006). Geographical and taxonomic patterns of rarity. High school teacher, San Antonio, TX. Dr. Tasila Banda (2007). Old world Dry tropical forest ecology. Dr. Susan Cameron (2008). Multi-species conservation planning in a spatial context. Post-doctoral Associate. Harvard. Dr. Elizabeth Bella (2009). Invasive species biology an d climate change. Consultant. HDR Alaska. Dr. John Williams (2009). Post doc. UC Davis. Tropical Forest Ecology. Former Post Doctoral Associates Dr. Rob Blair. Professor. University of Minnesota. Dr. Diane Thomson. Associate Professor. Claremont College. Dr. Felipe Dominguez Lozano. Lecturer. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. |
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. RECENT PUBLICATIONS 2009 Williams, N.S.G., Schwartz, M.W., Vesk P.A., McCarthy, M.A., Hahs, A.K., Clemants, S.E., Corlett, R.T., Norton, B. A., Thompson, K., McDonnell, M.D. 2009. A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on plants. Journal of Ecology 97:4-9. Williams, J.N., Seo, C., Thorne, J., Nelson, J.K., Erwin, S. O'Brien J.M., Schwartz, M.W. 2009. Using species distribution models to predict new occurrences for rare plants. Diversity and Distributions. In Press. Richardson, D.M., Hellmann, J.J., Mclachlan, J., Sax, D.F., Schwartz, M.W., Brennan, J., Gonzalez, P., Root, T., Sala, O., Schneider, S. Ashe, D., Camacho, A., Clark, J.R., Early, R., Etterson, J., Fiedler, D. Gill, J., Polasky, S., Safford, H., Thompson, A., Vellend, M. Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation. PNAS. In press. Muir, M.J. and Schwartz, M.W. Graduate education in conservation: Academic training for a non-academic workplace. In press. Conservation Biology 2008 Banda, T. Mwangulango, N., Meyer, B. Schwartz, M.W., Mbago, F., Sungula, M. and Caro, T.M. 2008. The woodland vegetation of the Katavi-Rukwa ecosystem in western Tanzania. Forest Ecology and Management 255:3382-3395. Schwartz, M.W. 2008. The performance of the Endangered Species Act. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 39:279-299. Lawson, D.M., Lamar, C.K. and Schwartz , M.W. 2008. Quantifying plant population persistence in human dominated landscapes. Conservation Biology 22: 922-928. Schwartz, M.W.; Hunter, M.J. Jr., Boersma, P.D. 2008. Scientific Societies in the 21st century: a membership crisis? Conservation Biology 22:1087-1089. 2007 McLachlan, J.S., Hellmann, J.J. and M.W. Schwartz. 2007. A framework for debate of assisted migration in an era of climate change. Conservation Biology 21: 297-302. Lozano FD, Saiz JCM, Ollero HS, and M.W. Schwartz. 2007. Effects of dynamic taxonomy on rare species and conservation listing: insights from the Iberian vascular flora. Biodiversity and Conservation 16: 4039-4050. 2006
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