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Christopher Gabler, a PhD student at Rice University, has been chosen as the first recipient of the Ann Miller Gonzalez Research Grant for a graduate student. Dr Kathleen Ward, chair of the committee which reviewed the applications, said Christopher was unanimously chosen from nine good applicants.
(Photo by Chris Evans The University of Georgia, Bugwood.org)
Christopher’s study focuses on restoration of a southeastern Texas site that had been extensively invaded by Chinese tallow. His field experiments over a four-year period will investigate how restoration outcomes are influenced by native and exotic seed availability, post-removal management, and seedbank density and composition at the time of tallow removal. These experiments will help fill key gaps in restoration ecology resulting from a dearth of multi-site, multi-factor experiments. Christopher is working under the supervision of Dr. Evan Siemann, of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice.
The Native Plant Society of Texas plans to award research grants annually to university undergraduate and graduate students for academic research related to Texas native plants and/or to conservation and restoration of native-plant habitats of Texas. The grants are named in memory of Ann Miller Gonzalez, a past president of the Society and long-time supporter of native plants.
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