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DR. JEFFREY LEE WALCK
Professor

Dr. Jeffrey Lee Walck

CONTACT:
E-mail: jwalck@mtsu.edu
Phone:
Fax: (615) 898-5093
Office Location:
Davis Science Building 120C
MTSU Box 60
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Web Address: www.mtsu.edu/~jwalck

EDUCATION:
B.S. with Honors, Cornell University
Ph.D. in Biology, University of Kentucky

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Invasion ecology, including causes of invasibility of plants and management issues; Evolutionary ecology and conservation biology of rare plants and communities, particularly cedar glades; Comparative seed ecology at various spatial scales within a phylogenic framework

PUBLICATION RECORD:
Dr. Walck's research has resulted in 30 authored (or co-authored) papers published in American Journal of Botany, American Midland Naturalist, Bartonia, Biological Conservation, Biotropica, Botanical Review, Canadian Journal of Botany, Castanea, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science, Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, Native Plants Journal, Plant Ecology, Seed Science Research, and Southwest Naturalist.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

  • Best Student Paper Award, Ecological Section, Botanical Society of America
  • Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Award, University of Kentucky
  • T.H. Morgan Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Kentucky
  • Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering

GRADUATE PROGRAM ROLE:
Graduate Students focus on a variety of plant conservation issues of the cedar (limestone) glade ecosystem. This ecosystem is best developed in middle Tennessee, a hotspot of plant endemism and rarity, and is critically imperiled. Graduate projects include(d) investigating the invasiveness of the exotic shrub Ligustrum sinense, determinants of species diversity in cedar glades using GIS, and microhabitat of the federally endangered Dalea foliosa. External and in-house grants support graduate research.


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