PLANT ECOLOGY LAB: Home Page
Archbold Biological Station,
P.O. Box 2057, Lake Placid, Florida 33862 USA
Phone: 863-465-2571    FAX: 863-699-1927   send e-mail

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Lab Head: Eric S. Menges
Postdoctoral Associate: Sonali Saha
Research Assistants (full time): Gretel L. Clarke, Stacy A. Smith, Carl W. Weekley
Plant Ecology Lab, 15 December 2005. (left to right): Martha Ellis (intern), Eric Menges (lab head), Gretel Clarke (research assistant), Carl Weekley (research assistant), Theresa Strazisar (intern), Marcia Rickey (back, research assistant), Sonali Saha (front, postdoctoral associate), Andrew Tweel (visiting researcher), Beth Richards (intern). The lab group is posing in the lab's attic (soon to be converted into office space) showing the steel girders supporting the concrete roof of Archbold's Main Building, built by John A. Roebling, II, during 1930-31. Digital photo by Fred Lohrer.

Research Programs
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Biennial Report 1999-2000
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Long-Term Plant Demography Research
   -Lake Wales Ridge BOUNDARY MAP
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Biological Soil Crusts
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Mechanical Treatments of Scrub
Florida Ziziphus (FZ) Research
   -FZ Report 2004
   -FZ Report 2005

   -FZ DRAFT - Strategic Plan
   -FZ Proposed Introduction Sites
   -FZ Ongoing Translocation Sites
   -FZ Report - January 2006 Meeting

Research Internships
Demography Data (Archbold Data Directory)
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Dicerandra frutescens long-term data (NEW)
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Hypericum cumulicola population matrices
   -Pinus elliottii fire mortality
   -Polygonella basiramia summary statistics
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Warea carteri population dynamics
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Ziziphus celata breeding system matrix
Plant Species Accounts Index
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Asimina obovata
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Ceratiola ericoides
  
-Chrysopsis highlandsensis
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Crotalaria avonensis
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Dicerandra christmanii
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Dicerandra frutescens
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Eriogonum longifolium
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Eryngium cuneifolium
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Hypericum cumulicola
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Liatris ohlingerae
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Pinus elliottii v. densa
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Polygala lewtonii
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Polygonella basiramia
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Prunus geniculata
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Warea carteri
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Ziziphus celata
Plant Species Photo Album
Plant Lab Photo Album-GROUPS

Plant Lab Photo Album-Field Work
Fire Intensity Monitoring Photos

Overview. Archbold Biological Station’s Plant Ecology Lab conducts basic and applied research that focuses on three areas:
  • 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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