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Ph.D. student with Robert Peet and Alan Weakley

Office phone: 919-962-6934

Email 1: erm at email.unc.edu

Email 2: lizmatthews03 at gmail.com

Office: 417 Coker Hall

Mailing Address:
Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3275

Research Interests: Alluvial plant communities of Piedmont brownwater rivers; beta-diversity along and between rivers; plant metacommunities; restoration ecology

Current Projects:

1. Classification and description of the alluvial plant communities of North Carolina Piedmont brownwater rivers

2. Designing restoration targets based on high quality vegetation data

3. Variation in alluvial plant community composition along spatial and environmental gradients