Daniel J. McGlinn

Research interests:

I am interested in the scaling of species diversity in space and time, metabolic ecology, the unified neutral theory, and the theory behind current restoration ecology. I am addressing these research questions within the context of the tall grass prairie ecosystem that is native to Oklahoma. Also I designed the Libra website so if you have any questions or comments please send them to me or Mike.

At the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill I carried out an undergraduate thesis that investigated the the co-occurence patterns of red and white oak species in the southern Appalachian mountains. This study was an attempt to test whether oak subgenera follow a type of assembly rule known as niche partitioning. Data that was used for this project was accessed from the Carolina Vegetation survey dataset collected by the UNC Plant Ecology Research Group.

I spent one summer conducting research at Blandy Experimental Farm in the Shenandoah of Virginia. I designed a project to investigate the competitive effect that mowing would have one the recruitment of native warm season grasses that had been seeded in a fallow field. This project was conducted through the University of Virginia.

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