nfowler@uts.cc.utexas.edu
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College: Natural Sciences

Home Department: Biological Sciences

Education: PhD, Duke University

Research interests:(1) the dynamics and regulation of plant populations and meta-populations; (2) competitive and facilitative interactions between plants and their consequences for community structure and for species distributions across their landscape; (3) the effects of herbivory on plant population dynamics, plant-plant interactions, community structure, and landscape-scale distributions. We address these topics using a variety of plant species (grasses, forbs, woody plants) and communities (from natural savanna and woodland to abandoned mines). Field, greenhouse, and garden experiments, descriptive field studies, and theoretical models are among the techniques used. A number of our current projects have conservation applications, including the preservation of an endangered annual forb and the management of woodland preserves.

Courses taught:
BIO 384C Intro to Ecol/Evol/Behavior I

BIO 384L Issues in Population Ecology

Recent Publications:

Russell, F.L., and N.L. Fowler. 2004. Effects of white-tailed deer on the population dynamics of acorns, seedlings and small saplings of Quercus buckleyi. Plant Ecology 173:59-72.