Carl and Ziziphus celata, 18 Sept 2002. Digital Image by Nancy Deyrup

Carl and Ziziphus celata at one of only 5 sites where this Federally?state endangered plant still exist in the wild. Digital photo by Marcia Rickey.

Carl W. Weekley, Research Assistant V

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B.A., Georgetown University, 1968
M.S., Florida International University, 1993

Current Research Projects

• Restoration ecology of Ziziphus celata
• Seedling survival and demography of Warea carteri
• Demography and reproductive biology of Polygala lewtonii and Prunus geniculata
• Fire intensity monitoring methods and techniques
• Seed morphology and germination ecology of scrub endemics

Publications

Weekley, C., T. Race, and D. Hardin. 1999. Saving Florida Ziziphus: Recovery of a rare Lake Wales Ridge endemic. The Palmetto, 19 (2): 9-10,20.

Weekley, C.W. 2000. The biology, gall morphology and host plant impact of a gallmaking chalcidoid wasp. MS thesis, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

Weekley, C.W. 2000. The natural history of Tanaostigmodes pithecellobiae (Hymenoptera: Tanaostigmatidae), a gall-maker on blackbead (Pithecellobium keyense). Florida Entomologist 83 (1): 31-41.

Weekley, C.W. and T. Race. 2001. The breeding system of Ziziphus celata Judd and D.W. Hall (Rhamnaceae), a rare endemic plant of the Lake Wales Ridge, Florida, USA: Implications for Recovery. Biological Conservation 100: 207-213.

Weekley, C.W., T.L. Kubisiak, and T. Race. 2002. Genetic impoverishment and coss-incompatibility in remnant genotypes of Ziziphus celata (Rhamnaeae), a rare shrub endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge, Florida. Biodiversity and Conservation 11: 2027-2046.

Weekley, C.W., and E.S. Menges. 2003 (In press). Species and vegetation responses to prescribed fire in a long-unburned, endemic-rich Lake Wales Ridge scrub. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.

Koptur, S., M.C Rodriguez, S.F. Oberbauer, C. Weekley, and A. Herndon. 2002. Herbivore-free time? Damage to new leaves of woody plants after hurricane Andrew. Biotropica 34 (4): 547-554.

Quintana-Ascencio, P.F., E.S. Menges, and C.W. Weekley. 2003. A fire-explicit population viability model of Hypericum cumulicola in Florida rosemary scrub.

Quintana-Ascencio, P.F., C.W. Weekley, and E.S. Menges. In prep. Hypericum cumulicola demography and microhabitat characteristics in Florida scrub and roadside habitats. Biological Conservation. In prep.

Wally, A.L., E.S. Menges, and C.W. Weekley. Submitted. Evaluating methods for measuring fire intensity at multiple scales in heterogeneous vegetation. Oecologia.