State University of New York
College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology
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Donald J. Leopold,
Ph.D. Phone: 315-470-6760 Email: djleopold@esf.edu |
| My main teaching responsibilities each year involve two dendrology courses in the fall (EFB 335;
Dendrology; EFB 336 Dendrology I) and the woody plant course for landscape architecture students (EFB 334; Woody Plants in the Natural and Built landscape); and Freshwater Wetland Ecosystems (EFB 542) in the spring. I teach graduate seminars about conservation and restoration topics about every other year. During the summer, I assist in a course (EFB 202; Ecological Monitoring and Bio diversity Assessment) at our Cranberry Lake Biological Station.
My general research interests are in trying to understand: (1) how forest and wetland ecosystems respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbance; (2) what ecological characteristics "define" a healthy forest, especially in the "old-growth" state; (3) why species may be regionally rare but locally abundant; and, (4) what local and regional factors control biodiversity? Knowing such information, how can ecosystems be managed or restored for unique communities and rare species, and what can be done at the landscape level to enhance regional biodiversity?
Post-doctoral Research Associates Post Doctoral Research Associate: Dr. Jodi Forrester Research Support Specialist (managing the Plant Ecology Research Lab in 411 Illick): Chuck Schirmer
Tony Eallonardo Alison Halpern Laura Heath J. Hope Hornbeck Catherine Landis Pablo Ramirez de Arellano
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