Dr. Aaron David is the Program Director of Plant Ecology at Archbold Biological Station. He completed is B.A. at Washington University in St Louis, and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. He has been working in Florida ecosystems since 2016, including postdoctoral positions at the University of Miami and the USDA-ARS Invasive Plant Research Laboratory prior to starting his position at Archbold in 2021. His research interests include plant population ecology, plant-microbe interactions, and biological control of invasive plants.

Aaron S. David, Ph.D.

Director of Plant Ecology, Assistant Research Biologist

Patches of the endemic rosemary scrub are where population ecology meets conservation. For over 3 decades, we have monitored several plant species found in this unique habitat to better understand the factors underlying population growth and decline. We survey individual plants of several species including Hypericum cumulicola, Eryngium cuneifolium, and Ceratiola ericoides for survival, growth, and reproduction annually.

Eric Menges (Archbold emeritus), Pedro Quintana-Ascencio (UCF), Federico Borgethsi Lopez (UCF)

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Demography of individual plants (survival, growth, reproduction)

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Archbold Biological Station, Lake Wales Ridge

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Our long-term work helps to attribute population dynamics to management, climate, and biotic factors, and has made the rosemary scrub an important model system for population ecology.

The ups and downs of life on the bald

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