Research Interests
Plant Ecology. Current research on demography and life history of plant populations, effects of habitat fragmentation on genetic structure and ecological traits, modeling extinction probability and population viability, life history adaptations of scrub plants to fire, fire effects on plant population dynamics, restoration ecology, plant conservation, and the ecology of introductions. Study species include scrub balm (Dicerandra frutescens), wedge-leaved Eryngium (Eryngium cuneifolium), Highlands scrub hypericum (Hypericum cumulicola), Carter’s mustard (Warea carteri), and several other rare plant species. Some research projects also involve community dynamics in Florida sand pine scrub, and other upland plant communities, including the role of fire.
Selected Recent Publications, 2000 -
Menges, E.S. 2000. Population viability analyses in plants: challenges and opportunities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:51-56.
Yahr, R., E.S. Menges, and D. Berry. 2000. Effects of drainage, fire-exclusion, and time-since-fire on endemic cutthroat communities in central Florida. Natural Areas Journal 20:3-11.
Evans, M.E.K., R.W. Dolan, E.S. Menges, and D.R. Gordon 2000. Genetic diversity and reproductive biology in Warea carteri (Brassicaceae): a narrowly endemic Florida scrub annual. American Journal of Botany 87:372-378.
Quintana-Ascencio, P.F. and E.S. Menges 2000. Competitive abilities of three narrowly endemic plant species in experimental neighborhoods along a fire gradient. American Journal of Botany 87:690-699.
Maliakal, S.K., E.S. Menges, and J.S. Denslow. 2000. Community composition and regeneration of Lake Wales Ridge wiregrass flatwoods in relation to time-since-fire. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 127:125-138.
Menges, E.S. 2000. Applications of population viability analyses in plant conservation. Ecological Bulletin 48: 73-84.
Menges, E.S., R.W. Dolan, R. Yahr, and D.R. Gordon. 2001. Comparative genetics of seven plants endemic to Florida=s Lake Wales Ridge. Castanea 66:98-114.
Boyle, O. and E.S. Menges. 2001. Pollinator visitation to Hypericum cumulicola (Hypericaceae), a rare Florida scrub endemic. Florida Scientist 64:107-117.
Menges, E.S. and M.A. Deyrup. 2001. Postfire mortality in south Florida slash pine: interacting effects of vegetation, season, burn size, fire intensity, and bark beetles. International Journal of Wildland Fire 10:53-63.
Reed, J.M., L.S. Mills, , J.B. Dunning, Jr., E.S. Menges, K.S. McKelvey, R. Frye., S. R. Beissinger, M.C. Anstett and P. Miller. 2002. Emerging issues in population viability analysis. Conservation Biology 16:7-19.
Hierro, J.L. and E.S. Menges. 2002. Fire Intensity and shrub regeneration in palmetto-dominated flatwoods of Central Florida. Florida Scientist 65:51-61.
Hunter, M.E. and E.S. Menges. 2002. Allelopathic effects and root distribution of Ceratiola ericoides (Empetraceae) on seven rosemary scrub species. American Journal of Botany 89:1113-1118.
McConnell, K. and E.S. Menges. 2002. The effects of fire and treatments that mimic fire on the Florida endemic scrub buckwheat (Eriogonum longifolium Nutt. var. gnaphalifolium Gand.). Natural Areas Journal 22:194-201.
Satterthwaite, W.S., P.F. Quintana-Ascencio, and E.S. Menges. 2002. Assessing scrub buckwheat population viability in relation to fire using multiple modeling techniques. Ecological Applications 12:1672-1687.
Menges, E. S., and P. F. Quintana-Ascencio. 2003. Modeling the effects of disturbance, spatial variation and environmental heterogeneity on population viability of plants. Population viability in plants. Schwartz and Brigham (eds.). Springer Verlag in press
Quintana-Ascencio, P.F., E.S. Menges, and C. Weekley. 2003. A fire-explicit population viability analysis of Hypericum cumulicola in Florida rosemary scrub. Conservation Biology in press
Evans, M.E.K., E.S. Menges, and D.R. Gordon. 2003. Reproductive biology of three sympatric endangered plants endemic to Florida scrub. Biological Conservation in press
Menges, E.S., E.O. Guerrant, and S. Hamze. 2003. What is the effect of seed collection on extinction risk? Pages XX-XX in E.O. Guerrant, K. Havens, and M. Maunders (editors). Saving the Pieces: the value, limits, and practice of off-site plant conservation in support of wild diversity. Island Press in press
Carlson, J. E., E.S. Menges, and P. Marks. 2003. Seed dispersal by Gopherus polyphemus at Archbold Biological Station, Florida. Florida Scientist in press
Petru, M. and E.S. Menges. 2003. Seedling establishment in natural and experimental Florida scrub gaps. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society in press
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