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Faculty
Brosi, Berry
Gillespie, Tom
Gunderson, Lance
Hall, Anne
Hickcox, Woody
Kitron, Uriel
Martin, Tony
Rich, Michael
Ruttan, Lore
Size, William
Wegner, John
Yandle, Tracy
Adjunct Faculty
Brown, Carl
Burkot, Tom (CDC)
Page, Michael
Remais, Justin
Spears, Ellen
Wilson, Larry
Staff
Byrd, Jerald (Jerry)
Majors, Kristan
Pierce, Stefanie
Post-docs
Chaves, Luis
Prokopec, Gonzalo Vazquez
Rwego, Innocent
Graduate students
Couret, Nelle
Salzer, Johanna
Levine, Rebecca
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Dr. Larry WilsonAdjunct Faculty 400 Dowman Drive B.S. Biology- Emory University |
Larry has worked full-time as an ecologist at Fernbank Science Center for the past 24 years. At Fernbank he teaches classes and manages their old growth forest. In addition to working at Fernbank Dr. Wilson has taught at Perimeter College, and worked for the US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. Larry joined the Department in 1994 before we had department status, when it was called the Human and Natural Ecology program.
Courses Taught
ENVS 371- Ecology of the tropics (lecture)
ENVS 372- Ecology of the Tropics Field studies in the Amazon (field course)
ENVS 446- Environmental Field Studies in southern Africa: Namibia and Botswana
Research Interests
Tropical ecology especially in the Amazon rainforest but also including Central America, Africa, Borneo, and Madagascar
Conservation problems in southern Africa: desert lions, black rhinos, cheetahs, desert elephants and hyenas
Herpetology- SE USA amphibians and reptiles and their conservation, Hellbenders, Poison Dart Frogs
Plant defenses against insect herbivory
Ecological succession patterns in the SE USA
Non-native, invasive plants and their impacts on native ecosystem function
Sample Publications
Bauman, Michael L., and Lawrence A. Wilson. 2005. The population status and limiting factors of the eastern Hellbender in the Tennessee River drainage of Georgia. SE Biologist 52(2): 153.
Chher, Linda and Lawrence A. Wilson. 2007. Nonnative invasive plant species in urban forests within the Piedmont region of southeastern USA. SE Biologist 54(3): 309.
Shure, DJ and LA Wilson. 1993. Patch-Size Effects on Plant Phenolics in Successional Openings of the Southern Appalachians. Ecology 74(1):55-67.
Wilson. LA . 1995. A Land Manager's Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the South. The Nature Conservancy and USDA Forest Service. Chapel Hill, NC.360p.
