Jason Martina, a collaborator at Texas State University, gave two conference presentations in Texas this month, reporting on new results from our research collaboration to study the relationship between elevated nutrient loading to wetlands and invasion by Phragmites australis. Results were based on thousands of simulation runs conducted with the Mondrian wetland community-ecosystem model. These…
This year at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Louisville, Kentucky, we gave four presentations on Great Lakes coastal wetlands. All four presentations reported model runs that made use of the Mondrian community-ecosystem model. The poster presentation given by graduate student Ye Yuan was her first presentation at a national conference.…
University of Michigan undergraduate Abby Meyer worked with us over the summer of 2019, with a fellowship from Michigan Sea Grant. Using the Mondrian wetland community-ecosystem model, Abby studied the spatial patterns of plant population growth produced by different branching frequencies among native and invasive wetland plants. Abby also wrote code to display the branching…
Laura Bourgeau-Chavez (Michigan Tech Research Institute), Phyllis Higman (Michigan Natural Features Inventory), and Bill Currie gave a presentation and panel discussion at “The Science, Practice & Art of Restoring Native Ecosystems 2018” conference organized by The Stewardship Network in East Lansing, MI, January 12-13, 2018. We gave a tag-team presentation titled “Sharing insights on invasive…
Bill Currie and students attended the IAGLR (International Association of Great Lakes Researchers) in Detroit in May, 2017. Bill presented in a special session on the management of invasive Phragmites in Great Lakes wetlands, a session that combined talks by management professionals and university researchers from across the region. Bill gave a presentation about using…
