Recent publications by faculty and undergraduate students:

Sewanee' s Biology Department offers undergraduates numerous opportunities to get involved with reasearch. The following publications are some of the outcomes of that process.

Moye, V.P., N. Hollingshead and J. P. Evans.  2008.   Habitat suitability analysis for mountain lions (Puma concolor) on the southern Cumberland Plateau. Southeastern Naturalist (Accepted with revisions). [This paper is Valerie Moye’s (class of ’07) Honors project for her Ecology and Biodiversity major and was completed in collaboration with Dr. Jonathan Evans and Nick Hollingshead]

Scheffers, B., N. Hollingshead, and J.P. Evans.  2008.  Core terrestrial habitat loss around ephemeral ponds of the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee. Wetlands (Accepted with revisions). [this paper is Brett Scheffers’ (class of ’06) Honors project for his Ecology and Biodiversity major and was completed in collaboration with Dr. Jonathan Evans and Nick Hollingshead]

Reid, J.L., J.P. Evans, J.K. Hiers, and J.B.C. Harris.  in press.  Ten years of forest change in two adjacent communities on the southern Cumberland Plateau.  Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society [Leighton Reid (class of ’06) and Bert Harris (class of ’06) built on the work of Kevin Hiers (class of ’96) in this long-term project directed by Dr. Jonathan Evans]

Thurman, C. F., and L. P. Shackleton, and D. G. Haskell. in press Does Density of Dead Shells Predict Density of Living Anguispira cumberlandiana Lea 1840 (Gastropoda: Discidae)? American Midland Naturalist [Carter Thurman and Lane Shackleton conducted this study as an independent research project in collaboration with Dr. David Haskell]

Harris, J. B. C. and D. G. Haskell. 2008.  Land Cover Sampling Biases Associated with Roadside Bird Surveys. Avian Conservation and Ecology - Écologie et conservation des oiseaux 2(2): 12. [online] URL: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol2/iss2/art12/ [this paper is Bert Harris' Honors project for his Ecology and Biodiversity major and was completed in collaboration with Dr. David Haskell]

Barkman, T. J., J. R. McNeal , S.-H. Lim , G. Coat , H. B. Croom , N. D. Young  and C. W. dePamphilis. 2007. Mitochondrial DNA suggests at least 11 origins of parasitism in angiosperms and reveals genomic chimerism in parasitic plants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:248 [online] URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/248/pdf [this paper reports the results of a long-term collabortaion between Dr. Henrietta Croom and colleagues at Western Michigan U, Penn State U, UGA, and U Mass Amherst]