Current and Completed Projects

• Administration and Management of Florida Plant Conservation Program
• Conservation Genetics with a Phylogenetic Approach in the Genus Conradina (Lamiaceae)
• Etonia Rosemary (Conradina etonia) Survey
• Lake Wales Ridge Scrub Plant Monitoring and Management
• Monitoring the Effects of Feral Hog Rooting on Cutthroat Grass
• Population Demography of the Fragrant Prickly-Apple Cactus (Harrisia fragrans; syn. Cereus eriophorus var. fragrans)
• Quantifying seedling success of Consolea corallicola; syn. Opuntia spinosissima, the Semaphore Cactus, an Imperiled Species
• Status of Spiranthes eatonii at Two State Properties
• Status Survey for Florida Goldenaster (Chrysopsis floridana)
• Status Survey for Scrub Plum (Prunus geniculata)
• A Strategic Plan for the Recovery of the Endangered Lake Wales Ridge Endemic Florida Ziziphus (Ziziphus celata)

Completed Projects:

• A Comparison of the Population Dynamics of Hypericum cumulicola in Various Habitats and with Different Fire Return Intervals
• Conservation Planning for Crotalaria avonensis and Lupinus aridorum, Two Endangered Plants of the Lake Wales Ridge
• Continued Ecological Monitoring and Experimental Research on Four Florida Scrub Endemic Plants (Eryngium cuneifolium, Dicerandra frutescens, Dicerandra christmanii, and Warea carteri)
• The Continuing Study of the Recovery Needs of the Federally-Listed Lake Wales Ridge Endemic Ziziphus celata
• Demography, Breeding System, and Genetics of Nolina brittoniana
• Demography of Pine Rockland Endangered Plant Taxa
• Effects of Fire and Seed Bank Dynamics on Patterns of Genetic Variation in Hypericum cumulicola and Implications for Management
• Fragrant Prickly-Apple (Cereus eriophorus var. fragrans) Annual Monitoring and Mapping
• Exotic Control for Justicia cooleyi at Withlacoochee State Forest
• Further Studies on Pathogens of Torreya taxifolia
• Genetic Variation in Chrysopsis floridana
• GIS Mapping for Ecosystem Thinking: Mapping the Rare Plants and Natural Communities on the Tiger Creek and Saddle Blanket Lakes Preserves
• Hypericum edisonianum: Dieback in a Florida Endemic Plant
• Interactions Among Herbs, Shrubs, and Microbiotic Soil Crusts in Florida Scrub: How Should We Manage for Endangered Herbs in the Scrub Ecosystem?
• Introduction of Ziziphus celata at Lake Arbuckle State Forest
• Life History, Demography, and Conservation of the Florida Yew (Taxus floridana)
• Management, Monitoring and Basic Life History Studies of Warea amplexifolia
• The Metapopulation Biology of Polygonella basiramia, a Federally Endangered Florida Scrub Endemic
• Monitoring of Campanula robinsiae
• Monitoring of Justicia cooleyi
• Monitoring and Management of Cereus eriophorus var. fragrans
• Monitoring of Rhododendron chapmanii
• Post-Hurricane Reintroduction and Recolonization of Cladonia perforata at Eglin Air Force Base
• Preparation for the Introduction of Ziziphus celata.
• Protection of Florida's Native Bromeliads by Control of Metamasius callizona (a Mexican Weevil)
• Reproduction of an Endangered Crucifer, Warea amplexifolia
• Research and Restoration of Opuntia spinosissima
• Research on Conradina and Its Relationship to Other Mints
• Research on Relationships of the Florida Torreya
• Research on Relationships of the Florida Yew
• Response of Rugel's Pawpaw (Deeringothamnus rugelii) to Site Preparation Treatments in Connection with Timbering
• Re-survey for Populations of Rhododendron chapmanii in Gulf, Liberty, and Gadsden counties, Florida
• The Sexual Reproductive Potential of the Florida Keys Tree-Cactus, Pilosocereus robinii (Lemaire) Byles & Rowley
• A Strategy for the Reintroduction of the Endangered Semaphore Cactus, Opuntia spinosissima, in the Florida Keys
• Survivorship, Growth and Fecundity of Three Narrowly Endemic Plants in Competitive Neighborhoods Along a Fire Disturbance Gradient
• Three Central Florida Scrub Plants (Lupinus aridorum, Dicerandra immaculata, and Warea amplexifolia)