Professors
Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, Professor
Research Area(s): Interactive effects of disturbance and spatial structure on plant community and population dynamics, especially for several rare plant species endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida.
I am a member of the science committee for the COMPADRE & COMADRE database project to create an open-access database of matrix population models for both animals and plants from all over the world to facilitate its usage for scientific and teaching purposes.
David G. Jenkins, Professor
Research Areas: Metacommunity ecology, aquatic & wetland ecology, ecological biogeography, macroecology.
I. Jack Stout, Professor emeritus
Research Areas: Conservation biology of Florida, including beach mice, gopher tortoise, and lupines.
Graduate Students
Danny Gooding, PhD
Research: Danny studies spatial patterns of coral reef health off the southeast Florida coast, with the goal to determine drivers of patterns, Hopefully, results will help understand the decline of Florida’s coral reefs and provide a guide for conservation efforts.
Federico Lopez Borghesi, PhD
Research: Broadly, I am interested on the interplay between plant reproductive physiology and population level dynamics. My project aims to find novel ways to frame seed ecophysiology studies to inform plant demography models.
Jacob D. Hart, PhD
Research:My research examines how disturbance and productivity influence biodiversity in freshwater communities of plants and invertebrates. With this project, I hope to provide a thorough experimental evaluation of the dynamic equilibrium model of biodiversity.
Undergraduate Students
- Julia Gneckow
- Jared John
- Nathan Rooney
- Opal Will
Technician:
- Alessandra Pandolfi
Lab Alumni
Shireen Alemadi, MS, 2006 | Debra Rinne, MS, 2006 | Alaina Bernard, MS, 2007 | Kristina Horn, MS, 2007 |
Bonnie Berry, MS, 2008 | Elizabeth Boughton, PhD, 2009 | Camille Collins, MS, 2010 | Jennifer Navarra, MS, 2010 |
Lisa McCauley, PhD, 2011 | Kim Medley, PhD, 2012 | Sandor Kelly, MS, 2012 | Elizabeth Stephens, PhD, 2013 |
Matthew Tye, MS, 2014 | Caitlyn Debevec, MS, 2015 | Steffan Pierre, MS, 2015 | Lina Maria Sanchez Clavijo, PhD, 2016 |
Jason Schroeder, PhD, 2018 | Haoyu Li, MS, 2019 |