Name
Peter Alpert
Associate Professor
Institution
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Biology Department

E-Mail
palpert@bio.umass.edu
Keywords
coastal dunes, coastal prairie, clonal plants, grasses, competition experiments, conservation and development in poor countries, desiccation tolerance, field manipulations, mammalian herbivores, northern California, soil nutrients, sub-saharan Africa, water hyacinth

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Name
David Gibson
Professor of Plant Biology
Institution
Southern Illinois University, Department of Plant Biology, Center for Ecology
405 Life Science II, 1125 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901-6509
E-Mail
dgibson@plant.siu.edu
Keywords
competition, community ecology, exotic and rare species, grasslands, plant invasions, plant population ecology

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Name
Jane Molofsky
Associate Professor
Institution
University of Vermont, Department of Botany
Burlington, Vermont 05405
E-Mail
jmolofsk@uvm.edu
Keywords
experimental population and community ecology, plant competition, plant demography, plant genetics and evolution, spatial models, theoretical ecology
Phalaris arundinacea
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Name
Heather L. Reynolds
Assistant Professor
Institution
Indiana University, Department of Biology
Jordan Hall 142, 1001 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7005, USA
E-Mail
hlreynol@indiana.edu
Keywords
Plant competition and coexistence, plant nutrient use and niche partitioning, plant-microbe and plant-soil interactions, grasslands, forest understory, molecular (T-RFLP) and enzymatic approaches to microbial community analysis, plant and soil analysis (nutrients, water, pH, isotopes), 15N-tracer techniques, field sampling of plant community richness and evenness.

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Name
Kevin Rice

Institution
University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences
4326 Storer Hall , University of California Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail
kjrice@ucdavis.edu
Keywords
adaptation, demography, ecological genetics, evolutionary dynamics of invasions, grasslands, igert goatgrassplant competition, plant population biology, rangelands, restoration ecology, Serpentine
Aegilops
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Name
Jake F. Weltzin

Institution
University of Tennessee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
569 Dabney Hall, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1610, USA
E-Mail
jweltzin@utk.edu
Keywords
climate change, demography, population dynamics, woody plant encroachment, rangelands, invasive grasses, precipitation regimes, warming, carbon dioxide enrichment, soil types, invasive legumes, soil resources, arthropod communities, diversity-function relationships, community characteristics, direct and indirect effects, species interactions, competition

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