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Ecosystem Science and Management

Everglades Dosing Facility The faculty and graduate students conduct research in ecosystems around the world. Areas of emphasis include conservation biology, landscape ecology, wetland ecology, forest ecology, soils, biogeochemistry, and hydrology of watersheds. Examples of current projects are found in the tropical rainforests of Venezuela, Peru and Costa Rica, wetlands in North Carolina and the Florida Everglades, Duke Forest, long-term soil-ecosystem studies at the Calhoun Experimental Forest site in South Carolina, and spatial modeling of forest gradients in the Sierra Mountains.

Primary Faculty
Richard Anderson
Norman L. Christensen, Jr.
James S. Clark
Patrick N. Halpin
Gabriel G. Katul
Kenneth R. Knoerr
Lynn A. Maguire
Ram Oren
Curtis J. Richardson
Daniel D. Richter
Jennifer Swenson
John Terborgh
Dean L. Urban

 

 
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