环境与植物生物学

The program is recommended for the student interested in an independent and flexible environment, 为满足个人兴趣和需要而设计的东西. Opportunities for in-depth investigation of contemporary approaches to molecular, 有机体的, and environmental analyses provide a stimulating preparation for graduate study and career development. 这些涵盖范围很广, from teaching and research in schools and universities through research and development in a commercial environment to ecological work with federal and state agencies or private organizations.

项目概述

All of the beginning curricula within the 环境与植物生物学 Tutorial Program are likely to have a common base, with variations in content and emphasis coming in the more advanced tutorials, 哪些课程是针对个别学生设计的. 一个典型的时间表概述如下.

Requirements outside plant biology are, for the most part, identified by course number. Students who wish to take alternate courses to satisfy the requirements may substitute, 例如, a different organic chemistry or 物理 sequence for those listed. Tutorial students are expected to acquire proficiency in fundamental areas of chemistry, 数学, 物理, and 生物科学; conventional courses meet the department's outside requirements in those fields.

荣誉导师学院 students must fulfill the newbb电子平台 English Composition requirements but are otherwise exempt from General 教育 requirements. Tutorial students may take non-major courses in addition to their major requirements, if they wish to pursue other interests while completing their undergraduate degree program.

高级教程

在第二年和之后的几年里, individually designed tutorials cover more specific aspects of plant biology, 环境生物学, 或者细胞和分子生物学. 这些教程, 哪些深度覆盖了选定区域的某些选定方面, may take the form of laboratory or field projects as well as the discussion format.

Areas available include the morphology of vascular and non-vascular plants, 分类学, 包括分子系统学, 生态, 生理学, 细胞生物学与生物化学, 分子生物学与遗传学, 群体遗传学和进化. 除了, students may acquire a broad perspective of these areas by attending undergraduate or graduate classes offered by the 环境与植物生物学 Department.

There is sufficient time in the program for students to widen their experience by taking outside courses, e.g., 生物化学, 经济学, 地理位置, 地质, 生物科学, which the tutor and student may feel useful in achieving a particular goal.

Students have access to the many study abroad opportunities at newbb电子平台. Three students from this department have each spent a year as exchange students at the University of Wales. 自2000年推出以来, students have also participated in the Global Studies in Plant Biology program in which faculty have led expeditions to Bolivia, 夏威夷, 新西兰, 泰国, 和巴西.

资格

Applicants are selected on the basis of superior academic ability and the potential for self-motivated undergraduate study and research. 申请截止日期为11月15日.

教务主任

Dr. 丽贝卡年代. 斯奈尔,肖像

Dr. 丽贝卡年代. 斯奈尔
俄亥俄生态和进化研究中心
环境与植物生物学
波特大厅411号
newbb电子平台
雅典，俄亥俄州45701
740-597-1628
snell@俄亥俄州.edu 

教育

Ph.D.，多伦多大学，2013年

研究

 

My research aims to improve our understanding of how plants respond to climate change, 从景观到区域尺度. I am interested in improving our knowledge about the processes that determine species composition, 社区动态和景观格局. These are processes such as reproduction, establishment, growth, competition and mortality. Taking a process-based approach will improve our ability to predict how species and ecological systems may respond to future climate change, 干扰和其他人为影响.

我的一些总体研究问题包括

 

  • How do abiotic and biotic factors interact to limit plant species abundances and distributions?
  • Will the response of vegetation to future climate reflect its response to paleo-climate change?
  • 植物的迁移速度有多快?有哪些限制因素? How will forests and forested landscapes respond to climate change?
  • 这些反应能否通过管理得到缓解?

当前和最近的研究项目

  • The interaction between climate, grazing pressure and woody encroachment in alpine pastures
  • Understanding rapid plant migration following the retreat of the last glacier
  • The direct effect of climate on reproduction in trees, for both masting and non-masting tree species

教师研究重点领域

  • 森林生态
  • 全球变化
  • 景观生态学

选择引用

R.S. 斯奈尔,C. 艾尔,年代. Kotlarski和H. Bugmann (2018) Importance of climate uncertainty for projections of forest ecosystem services. 区域环境变化. doi: 10.1007/s10113-018-1337-3

Thrippleton T., H. 布格曼和R.S. 斯奈尔 (2017) Herbaceous competition and browsing may induce arrested succession in central European forests. 生态学杂志. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12889

Thrippleton T., H. Bugmann, M. Folini和R.S. 斯奈尔 (2017) Overstorey-understorey interactions intensify after drought-induced forest die-off: long-term effects for forest structure and composition. 生态系统. doi: 10.1007/s10021-017-0181-5

R.S. 斯奈尔,. 佩林格和H. Bugmann (2017) Integrating processes across temporal and spatial scales to simulate landscape patterns and dynamics in mountain pasture-woodlands. 景观生态学32:1079-1096. doi: 10.1007/s10980-017-0511-1

舒勒,我., H. 布格曼和R.S. 斯奈尔 (2016) From monocultures to mixed-species forests: is tree diversity key for providing ecosystem services at the landscape scale? 景观生态学. doi: 10.1007/s10980-016-0422-6

Thrippleton T., H. Bugmann K. 克莱默-普里瓦瑟和R.S. 斯奈尔 (2016) Herbaceous understorey – an overlooked player in forest landscape dynamics? 生态系统. [19]:1240-1254 doi: 10.1007/s10021-016-9999-5

古铁雷斯,.G., R.S. 斯内尔和H. Bugmann (2016) Using a dynamic forest model to predict tree species distributions. 全球生态与生物地理(25):347-358. doi: 10.1111 /创业板.12421

斯奈尔,R.S. 和S.A. Cowling (2015) Consideration of dispersal processes and northerly refugia can improve our understanding of past plant migration rates. 生物地理学报42:1677-1688. doi: 10.1111 / jbi.12544

斯奈尔,R.S., A. 胡特,J.E.M.S. Nabel说,G. Bocedi J.M.J. 特拉维斯,D. 砾石,H. Bugmann,.G. 古铁雷斯,T. Hickler,年代.I. 希金斯,M. Scherstjanoi B. Reineking N. Zurbriggen H. Lischke (2014) Using dynamic vegetation models to simulate plant range shifts. 描述生态学37:1184 - 1197. doi: 10.1111 / ecog.00580

斯奈尔,R.S. (2014) Simulating long distance seed dispersal in a dynamic vegetation model. 全球生态与生物地理，23 (3):89-98. doi: 10.1111 /创业板.12106