Current Research
The following is a current list of research projects conducted at OSBS in 2023:
- Total Maximum Daily Load for the Lower St.Johns River Basin
- Is canopy structural complexity a global predictor of primary production?: Transforming understanding of forest structure-function linkages using NEON sites
- Sexual selection and natural history of the cactus bugs, Narnia femorata and Chelinidea vittiger
- Carbon reserves, tree demography, and climate change thresholds across eastern temperate forests
- UF/IFAS Florida Automated Weather Network
- JEA Consumptive Use Permit Wetlands Monitoring Wells
- Integrative behaviors and host ranges of north Florida beetles associated with social insects
- Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity
- Lightening initiation, propagation, attachement, and ionosphere effects
- The causes and consequences of spatial modularity for populations
- Land-use legacies and land-cover/land-use change at NEON sites in the SE US
- Forest Inventory & Analysis Forest Census Plot - USFS
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- Fungi Collecting for FLAS Fungal Herbarium
- Impact of fire frequency on pollinator diversity in a North Central Florida sandhills habitat
- Causes of variation in parid call complexity
- Dimensions US-China: How historical constraints,local adaptation, and species interactions shape biodiversity across an ancient floristic disjunction
- Mapping tree species and tree functional traits at OSBS with NEON hyperspectral - lidar images
- The consequences of soil heating for prescribed fire and fire restoration in the south
- The stability and reactivity of soil organic matter in wetland soils
- Statewide species & habitat assessment for reticulated flatwoods salamander, frosted flatwoods salamander, and striped newt
- Pseudorabies in feral swine (Sus scrofa) populations: spatial and molecular epidemiology of pseudorabies infection in Florida, United States
- Monitoring gopher frog populations in Florida
- EAGER-NEON: NEON sites as a platform for transformative wildlife research
- Using an Ecosystem Engineer to Restore Functionality of Natural Pinelands in the SE US
- Investigating the evolution of paedomorphosis in sirenid salamanders
- Using ground-dwelling ants as bioindicators via functional ant community analyses and different sampling designs in unique Florida
- DNA barcoding the macrofungi of Ordway-Swisher: documenting biodiversity
- Investigating Cross-Kingdom host use by oomycetes
- Ecosystem service tradeoffs and management dynamics in restored ecosystems
- Ants as indicators of ecosystem resilience and breakdown: the impact of invasive species on ant-mediated seed dispersal
- DNA barcoding of plant-herbivore food webs in the sandhill ecosystem to quantify fire driven changes in feeding interactions
- Understanding intraspecific variation in climate-relevant traits in mosquitoes: can evolutionary ecology inform novel control?
- Using remote sensing to determine the landscape-level controls key understory species distributions by fire regime and environmental heterogeneity in sandhill ecosystems
- Prediction Landscape-Level Methane Emissions from Seasonally Inundated Wetlands in Ordway-Swisher
- Restoring redbay lost to laurel wilt in OSBS: A silvicultural approach with tolerant germplasmion
- UAS remote sensing in support of NEON and UF research
- Polyploidy and reticulate evolution in the meadow beauties (Rhexia; Melastomataceae)
- Intraspecific variation in relative bark thickness of temperate trees
- New High-precision algorithms for estimating bio-physical parameters