Glenn Matlack

Glenn Matlack, portrait
Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology
Porter 405, Athens Campus
email address matlack@ohio.edu
phone number 740-593-1131

Education

Ph.D. University College of North Wales, Bangor, UK 1984

Research

Faculty Research Focus Area: Eastern Deciduous Forest Ecology

Current and Recent Student Research Projects

  • Roadside tree microclimate and pavement effects
  • Interactions of plant mobility, habitat turnover, and habitat spatial structure (modeling)
  • Long-term impacts of land use in forests of SE Ohio
  • Urban Forests: Effects of street trees on urban microclimate and hardscape
  • Plant invasions as a community assembly process
  • Interactions of clonal growth and local environmental heterogeneity
  • Dispersal of forest herbs by animals

Courses

College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award 2008

  • PBIO 1090 Americans and their Forests
  • PBIO 4350/5350 Plant Population Biology
  • PBIO 3220/5220 Tropical Ecology

Departmental Service

  • Department Promotion and Tenure Chair
  • College of Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee
  • Faculty Senator

Professional Service

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Ecology
  • Biodiversity Management Planning, Wayne National Forest

Selected References