Dr. Mike Davis
Professor
Bio
My lab studies the amazing plant diversity of longleaf pine forests. My current research focuses on ways to accelerate understory restoration in these forests using heritage cattle and prescribed fire. The following is a list of current projects underway in my lab:
1. Effects of water table depth on plant diversity in pitcher plant bogs
2. Effects of forest management on pollinator diversity
3. Using Pineywoods Cattle to accelerate understory restoration in longleaf pine forests
4. Developing an FQI for central Gulf Coastal Plain longleaf pine forests
5. Resilience of gallberry to prescribed fire
6. Effects of fire and herbicide on soil microbial diversity
- PHD - Auburn University (1999)
- BS - Auburn University (1992)
Dendrology, Plant Ecology, Economic Botany, General Botany, First Year Foundations
- Soil fungi respond more strongly than fine roots to elevated CO 2 in a model regenerating longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem, Ecosystems, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-010-9360-3
- Irreconcilable differences: Fine-root life spans and soil carbon persistence, Science, 2008, 10.1126/science.1151382
- Host plant selection of Chrysolina clathrata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Mpumalanga, South Africa, Insect Science, 2009, 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2009.00257.x
- Fine root dynamics in a loblolly pine forest are influenced by free-air-CO2-enrichment: a six-year-minirhizotron study, Global Change Biology, 2008, 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01523.x
- The influence of elevated atmospheric CO2 on fine root dynamics in an intact temperate forest, Global Change Biology, 2001, https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1354-1013.2001.00457.x
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- Southern Appalachian Botanical Society