Examples of Recent and Ongoing Research

Competition

• Competition and zonation in marsh plants
• Effects of competition from grasses on plant diversity in pine savannas

Community Structure

• Filters controlling the plant species pool of coastal marshes 
• Effects of disturbance and fertility upon the vegetation of a Louisiana coastal marsh
• Species frequency patterns in pine savannas 
• Alligators, nutria and trophic cascades in coastal wetlands

Synthesis

• Competition in plant communities
• Introductory sources in ecology
• Principles of wetland ecology
• Science in the service of wetland conservation