by Alexis K. Heinz, 2017 ecology & evolutionary biology, woody plants graduate student instructor; 2019 master of science, conservation ecology & master of landscape architecture Without enough time or resources to conduct rigorous data collection in addition to the lack of collaboration from the management in providing information about the land management practices, I am working…
Category: hydrology
Applying ecology in a southern Florida community, part one
by Alexis K. Heinz, 2017 ecology & evolutionary biology, woody plants graduate student instructor; 2019 master of science, conservation ecology & master of landscape architecture The ocean is almost eight miles to the west. To explain the broader context, I have been contributing voluntary time, research, and recommendations to a community in southern Florida. According to the…
Reading nature
by Alexis Heinz, former EEB GSI, recent conservation ecology and landscape architecture graduate Hired to work on the vegetation component of a project to inventory the natural communities of Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, I began three weeks before the orientation to start on the wildflowers. Rather than perform an extensive botanical survey,…