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RESEARCH NEWS A two-year study project to find out why snakes cross roads, currently being conducted by ecology masters candidate Kimberly Andrews, was featured in the online edition of ABC News in early November, 2002. Ted Gragson, James Vose and Brian Kloeppel received a National Science Foundation grant of over $6 million to study the ecological consequences of land-use change in the southern Appalachian Mountains, it was announced in early December. "In this new study, we plan to pull together information from 1850 to the present on the interaction of people and the environment in the region — something that has never been done for southern Appalachia," said Gragson. Paul Hendrix received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the resistance of native earthworms to invasion by exotic earthworm species. The grant is the first to be administered through the newly established Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes (CBEP). (See cover story)
A reduction in genetic biodiversity not only affects the way an ecosystem functions, it also reduces the predictability of how an ecosystem will work, reported ecology doctoral student Mike Madritch and Dr. Mark Hunter in a study which revealed that genetic diversity enhances the health of an ecosystem. The study was published in the Ecological Society of America’s journal, Ecology, and featured in the online August edition of National Geographic.
The National Science Foundation awarded scientists Cathy Pringle, Susan Kilham, Matt Whiles (Ph.D. ecology‘95) and Karen Lips a $200,000 grant to evaluate the ecosystem-level effects of an endangered species of stream-dwelling frog. The interdisciplinary collaborative study addresses the consequences of an extinction event. “The focus of this [study] is to quantify the consequences of these events, regardless of the cause or causes,” said Pringle in a project summary. The work of doctoral student Kate Patterson and Dr. James Porter concerning the causes of coral disease was featured in a cover story in the December 2002 issue of Georgia Magazine, the alumni magazine of the University of Georgia.
This page last updated June 23, 2003.
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