I was a technician working with Dr. Beverly Collins on her SERDP funded research at Fort Benning, Georgia. The natural landscape at Fort Benning has be altered on several levels. We investigated options to restore and manage the landscape. Our research also involved conducting tests to determine the environmental impacts of military training and forest management for longleaf pine at Fort Benning. The goal of the five-year project was to find thresholds of land use disturbance from which the environment cannot rebound.


Select Presentations and Publications

Dilustro, J., B. Collins, L. Duncan and C. Crawford. 2005. Moisture and soil texture effects on soil C0₂ efflux components in southeastern mixed pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 204:85-95.

Duncan, L., J. Dilustro and B. Collins. 2004. Avian response to forest management and military training activities at Fort Benning, Georgia. Georgia Journal of Science 62:95-103.

Dilustro, J. J., B. S. Collins, L. K. Duncan and R. R. Sharitz. 2002. Soil texture, land
use intensity, and vegetation of Fort Benning upland forest sites. Journal of the Torrey
Botanical Society 129:289-297.

Duncan, L.K., J.J. Dilustro and B.S. Collins. 2003. Avian response, land use, and prescribed burning at Ft. Benning, GA. ESA Meeting. Savannah, Georgia.

Dilustro, J., B. Collins, and L. Duncan. 2003. Short-term response of soil to prescribed fire in mixed pine forests on Ft. Benning Georgia. (Southeastern Biology 50:191).

Collins, B., J. Dilustro, and L. Duncan. 2003. Thresholds of disturbance and dynamics of mixed pine-hardwood forests at Fort Benning, Ga. (Southeastern Biology 49:150).