Steven Pennings |
Steven C. Pennings
Assistant
Professor
Department of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston, TX
Expertise:
Salt marsh community ecology
Issues of Interest:
Dead marsh.
Current Projects
and Activities:
I am one of the PIs on the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER program. I study
plant community ecology and plant-herbivore interactions in coastal wetlands
Location:
The GCE-LTER has sites in the Altamaha, Doboy and Sapelo sounds. My plant-herbivore
work involves a variety of sites in New England (CT, RI, MA, ME) and in the
Southeast (SC, GA and FL).
Project Links:
Effects
of Eutrophication on Marsh Plant Community Structure in Four Sea Grant States
Steven C. Pennings (Sapelo Island Marine
Institute)
Effects
of Anthropogenic Eutrophication on Salt Marsh Community Structure
Steven
C. Pennings and Steven Y. Newell (Sapelo Island Marine Institute)
Georgia
Coastal Ecosystems - Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)
Merryl
Alber, Tim Hollibaugh, Steve Pennings, Wade Sheldon, Clark Alexander, Dale Bishop, Jack Blanton,
Adrian Burd, Chris Craft, Daniela Di Iorio, Mandy
Joye, Christof Meile, Billy Moore, Brian Silliman and John Wares (see
project summary for affiliations).
Homepage:
http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/lter/bios/pennings.htm