Ecological Stewardship Research


		Ecological Stewardship Group Research
		The members of the ecological stewardship group are involved in research projects with potential impact in a variety of scientific and technological areas. Below is a small list of projects in various stages of completion. By selecting a topic from the list below, you will be able to view information about the associated project.
		Performance of a Predictive Habitat Model for Nine Southeastern Plant Species of Concern: Integrated Affects of Military Training, Land Management and the Environment Longitudinal Dispersion and Tracer Migration in a Radial Flow Field Co-selection of metal and antibiotic resistance in pathogenic coastal bacteria. Comparisons among habitat variables of TES plants of the southeastern Fall-line Sandhills Effects of Land Management and Military Training Activities on Threatened and Endangered Species in the Southeastern Fall Line Sandhills Community Microcrustacean Responses to Hydrologic Restoration of Isolated Wetland Ponds Comparison of sandhills and mixed pine hardwood communities at Fort Benning, Georgia Clonal Integration in Vaccinium stamineum Reproductive ecology of federally endangered Baptisia arachnifera and its more widespread congener Baptisia lanceolata Successes and pitfalls of applying gradient-based probability models over scales Land Management and Military Use Effects on Southeastern Fall Line Sandhills Communities and Associated TES Species Herbaceous plant community responses to fire in longleaf pine forests Comparison of Vegetation and Soil Composition of Select Sandhill Plant TES Populations on Three Military Installations Hydrologic Regime of Carolina Bays and Similar Depression Wetlands of the Southeastern Coastal Plain, USA Description of southeastern fall-line sandhills communities and of habitat characteristics of TES plant species Experimental Restoration of Southeastern Coastal Plain Depression Wetlands Military Use and Land Management Effects on Southeastern Fall Line Sandhills Communities and Associated TES Species Indirect Selection for Antibiotic Resistance in Coastal Oceans Sandhills Communities at Fall-line installations Vegetation response in restorations of small coastal plain depression wetlands Indirect Selection for Antibiotic Resistance in Multiple Stream Microhabitats Effects of Military Training and Land Management on Threatened and Endangered Species in the Southeastern Fall Line/Sandhills Community Reproductive ecology of two southeastern Baptisia species Avian response to forest management and military training at Fort Benning, Georgia Soil response to prescribed fire in mixed pine-hardwood forests at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Making it big in bottomlands: regeneration strategies of intermediate species The Effect of Drought on Carolina Bay Plant Communities: Implications for Bay Vegetation Dynamics Effects of Military Training Activities and Land Management on Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive Species in the Southeastern Fall Line/Sandhills Community Vegetation, nitrogen mineralization and soil texture of Ft. Benning,GA upland forest sites Can an experienced planter make a difference in wetland forest restoration? Land management and soil composition effects on vegetation and nitrogen dynamics in Fort Benning, Georgia. Prescribed fire and land use effects on soil nitrogen cycling in upland forests at Ft. Benning Comparison of Antibiotic Resistance in Aeromonas Isolated from Fish Collected from Heavy Metal Contaminated and Uncontaminated Streams: Effect of Fish Trophic Status Characteristics of Fall Line Sandhill Communities and Populations of Sandhill TES Species Response of Baldcypress to Saline Inundation Adaptive management of sandhill communities on federal lands in the Fall Line ecoregion Indirect selection for antibiotic-resistant bacteria by heavy metal exposure Impacts of Military Training and Land Management on Threatened and Endangered Species in the Southeastern Fall Line/Sandhills Community Thresholds of land use in upland forests at Fort Benning Soil texture, land use intensity, and vegetation of Fort Benning sandhills sites Biomass allocation of three sandhills grasses with spatially different nutrient regimes Antibiotic Indicators of SRS Stream Contamination Aquatic Ecology Impacts of military training and land management on rare species in southeastern fall-line sandhills communities Biological Diversity of the Savannah River Site Responses to severe wind disturbance in an old-growth floodplain forest Wetland Restoration: Accelerating Natural Ecological Succession Light Acclimation by Laurel Oak Seedlings Expression and control of a behavioral polymorphism in the net-spinning caddisfly Macrostemum carolina Ecological restoration of wetlands in the southeastern coastal plain: technologies and applications Extended drawdown effects on a lakeshore propagule bank Tree composition and soil characteristics of Fall Line sandhill communities Restoration Ecology of Highly Impacted Forested Floodplain Ecosystems Macroinvertebrate Recovery of a Post-Thermal Stream: The Effect on Habitat Structure and Biotic Function Interpreting late Pleistocene and Holocene climatic records of Carolina bays on the southern Atlantic Coastal Plain Hydrology Effects on Recruitment in Herbaceous Carolina Bays National Environmental Research Parks Ecosystem Management Actinomycetes, Fungi, and Particulate Organic Matter: Interactions in a freshwater environment Land management and military use effects on the ground layer of upland forests at Fort Benning Nutrient and metal accumulation in wetland plants from a constructed wetland mesocosm