Suzanne Koptur


Professor of Biological Sciences

Florida International University

Office - OE 232, phone 305-348-3103 (w/ voice-mail)    Lab - OE 270, phone 305-348-3415

Office hours (Summer 2008) - Wednesday morning 9 am - 12 noon, and by appointment

Instigator of Plant Talk
 
Spring 2008
Summer A 2008
Fall 2008
Ecology (PCB 3043)
Ecology (PCB 3043)
Local Flora (BOT 3153 +L)
Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)
Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)
WS:  Insect/Plant Interactions (BOT 6920C)
Undergraduate Seminar (BSC 4931)
Nature Teaching (IDS 4920)
Ecology for QBIC
Readings in Pollination (BOT 6724)


PLANT TALK




Spring 2007 Summer A 2007 Fall 2007
Plant Ecology (BOT 5605 and 4993) Nature Teaching (IDS 4920) Evolutionary Ecology (PCB 4673)
Plant Ecology Lab (BOT 5605L and 4993L) Undergraduate Seminar (BSC 4931) Evolutionary Ecology Lab (PCB 4673L)
Undergraduate Seminar (BSC 4931) Readings in Pollination (BOT 6724) Readings in Plant/Animal Interactions (BOT 6936)
Readings in Plant/Animal Interactions (BOT 6936)
WS:  Field techniques in Pollination (BOT 6921)
PLANT TALK

  
 
Spring 2006 Summer 2006 Fall 2006
Ecology  (PCB 3043) Ecology (PCB 3043) Local Flora (BOT 3153 + L)
Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L) Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L) WS:  Insect/Plant Interactions (BOT 6920C)
Readings in Plant/Animal Interactions (BOT 6936) Undergraduate Seminar (BSC 4931) Readings in Pollination (BOT 6724)
PLANT TALK Readings in Plant/Animal Interactions (BOT 6936) PLANT TALK
  
 
Spring 2005 Summer 2005 Fall 2005
Evolutionary Ecology (PCB 4999) No Teaching this summer - hooray! Advanced Ecology (PCB 5423)
Undergraduate Seminar (BSC 4931)
WS:  Field techniques in Pollination (BOT 6921)


Readings in Plant/Animal Interactions (BOT 6936)
Readings in Pollination (BOT 6724)
PLANT TALK
   

Short CV

 

Education

                    B.S.  honors in Botany, 1976, University of Michigan
                    PhD  in Botany, 1982, University of California, Berkeley
 

Professional Societies

American Fern Society
American Society of Naturalists
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Botanical Society of America
British Ecological Society
Ecological Society of America
Florida Academy of Sciences
Florida Entomological Society
Florida Native Plant Society
Natural Areas Association
Organization for Tropical Studies
Plant Biologists of South Florida
Society for Conservation Biology
Society for Ecological Restoration
SER Coastal Plains Chapter
Society for the Study of Evolution
 

Committees

FIU Greenhouse Committee Chair
FIU Biology Graduate Committee Member
FIU Tenure and Promotion Committee Member
FIU Environmental Preserve Advisory Committee
FIU Women's Studies Center Advisory Council

EPAC - Florida Endangered Plant Advisory Council
Rare Plant Task Force
Pine Rockland Working Group
 
 

Research Program

 
Pollination of Pine Rockland Plants
Habitat Fragmentation and Pollination of South Florida Pine Rockland Plants
South Florida Pine Rockland Wildflower Restoration in Schoolyards and on Roadsides
Developing Ecological Criteria for Fire in South Florida Pine Rockland Ecosystems
A Pollen Flora for Subtropical Florida
Hurricane Effects on Vegetation and Insect/Plant Interactions
Extrafloral nectaries and Insect/Plant Interactions
Inga ecology
Sedges and their herbivores
Project FIRST II - Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching

Publications

 

Graduate Students


Lab expeditions

Planet-friendly pest control

Quilts

Acknowledgments

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