Dan Childers

James W. Fourqurean

Evelyn Gaiser

Research Interests:

Wetland ecosystem ecology, estuarine ecology, biogeochemistry, ecological modeling

Student Projects:

Landscape-level connectivity in isolated wetlands; The effects of phosphorus additions on ecosystem components in freshwater Everglades wetlands; The influences water flow on nutrient/organic matter dynamics in  marshes; The importance of phosphorus in dead fish detritus to ecosystem dynamics in freshwater marshes.

Representative Papers:

Ecol. Mod. 134(1):103-115

Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. 36:105-131

Aquatic Botany 62:115-133

Wetlands 19:262-275

Research Interests:

Biogeochemistry of the coastal ocean, Nutrient cycling in the marine environment , Primary productivity of aquatic systems; Seagrass physiological ecology, Ecosystem modeling 

Student projects:
Relationships between land use and benthic habitat change in the Florida Keys, The importance of competition in structuring plant communities along a disturbance gradient, Nitrogen versus Phosphorus limitation of benthic environments in south Florida, Stable isotope investigations of food webs, Decomposition of mangrove and seagrass biomass along nutrient and salinity gradients, PAM fluorometry as an indicator of seagrass status, Environmental controls on sexual reproduction in seagrasses

Representative papers:
Limnology and Oceanography 46(5):1077-1090
Limnology and Oceanography. 46(6):1278-1286.
Marine Biology 138:341-354.
Aquatic Botany 71(3):217-232.
Water Resources Research 36(7):1805-1822.
Estuaries 22(2B):345-357.

Research Interests:

Aquatic community ecology, algal biology, Everglades periphyton, Paleoecology of lakes and wetlands, Diatom taxonomy

Student Projects:

Representative Papers:

Diatom Research 15: 75-130.

Journal of Paleolimnology 20: 71-90

Joel C. Trexler 

David Lee

Tom Philippi

Research Interests:

Population and Community Ecology; Life history patterns and phenotypic plasticity; Population Genetics and gene flow; Fish Ecology; Ecology of the Everglades.

Student Projects:

Predator-prey studies, population structure, food-web ecology, fish life history

Representative Papers:

Ecology 78:1370-1381;

Evolution 52:1781-1801

Research Interests:

Evolution and adaptation in tropical forest plants, functional ecology; tropical forest ecology, especially India and Southeast Asia; Adaptations to extreme shade; leaf optical properties.

Student Projects:

Ecology of aquatic macrophytes in the Everglades

Representative Papers: 

Biotropica19:161-166.

J. Trop.Ecol. 4:281-292.

Biotropica 19:40-49. 

Research Interests:
Prolonged dormancy in crustacean inhabitants of temporary pools, primarily large Branchiopods in vernal pools in Southern California, rock pockets in Joshua Tree, Canyonlands, Organ Pipe/Agua Prieta, and potentially pools at Archibold and solution holes in the Everglades. 

Student Projects:

Representative Papers: 
Israeli Journal of Zoology 47:387-395

Jennifer H. Richards

Research Interests:

Ecology of aquatic macrophytes in the Everglades; Evolution of plant mating systems

Student Projects:

Effects of hydroperiod on algal mat communities; Nutrient dynamics of bladderworts

Representative Papers:

Richards, J.H. In press. Bladder function in Utricularia purpurea Walter: is carnivory important? American Journal of Botany.

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