Plant Ecology Lab, 18 December 2003. Top row, from left: Pedro Quintana-Ascencio (collaborator), Rick Lavoy (research assistant), Carl Weekley (research assistant). Bottom row, from left: Josie Tucker (intern), Eric Menges (lab head), Marcia Rickey (research assistant), Steph Neimeister (intern).  Digital photo by Nancy Deyrup.

Research Programs
   -Biennial Report 1999-2000
   -Long-Term Plant Demography Research
   -Biological Soil Crusts
Research Internships
Demography Data (Archbold Data Directory)
   -Hypericum cumulicola population matrices
   -Pinus elliottii fire mortality
   -Polygonella basiramea summary statistics
   -Warea carteri population dynamics
   -Ziziphus celata breeding system matrix
Plant Species Accounts Index
   -Asimina obovata
   -Ceratiola ericoides
   -Crotalaria avonensis
   -Dicerandra christmanii
   -Dicerandra frutescens
   -Eriogonum longifolium
   -Eryngium cuneifolium
   -Hypericum cumulicola
   -Liatris ohlingerae
   -Pinus elliottii v. densa
   -Polygala lewtonii
   -Polygonella basiramia
   -Prunus geniculata
   -Warea carteri
   -Ziziphus celata
Plant Species Photo Album
Plant Lab Photo Album

• Plant population biology, plant demography, and population viability
• Conservation biology and management of plants and plant communities
• Fire ecology and management

Our main focus is on plants of Florida scrub and related ecosystems. We largely work on the Lake Wales Ridge in south central Florida. Our research includes long-term data collection, field and laboratory experiments, and population modeling. We also work with local and national agencies to translate our research results to effective conservation and management.

Our lab has an active undergraduate intern program. Interns are usually recently graduated undergraduates who desire research experience before entering graduate school. An internship offers an opportunity to conduct an independent research project (including picking and designing a project, collecting and analyzing data, and summarizing the results orally and in written form). Interns also assist in lab projects and gain experience in myriad ecological, statistical, and modeling techniques. We also advise graduate students conducting research at Archbold or elsewhere while obtaining degrees from universities across the country and globe. Our interns and graduate students have continued on to be successful and productive ecological researchers and conservation biologists.

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