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Natural History
Understanding the natural history of wildlife (like the pictured West Indian rock iguana), plants, and even microbes, is a point of emphasis in the lab. Learn more about the UTK Naturalist Club and other natural history efforts that run through the lab.
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Bioenergy Sustainability
Bioenergy sustainability has been posed as a framework in the U.S. to lessen dependence on foreign oil, promote rural development, and to mitigate climate change through more efficient carbon sequestration. While government policies have pushed for the use of “green” energy,...
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Seed dispersal
Animal-mediated seed dispersal is a focal area of interest in the lab. Current efforts center on ants and the seeds they disperse. Myrmecochory, or dispersal of elaiosome-bearing seeds by ants, is a common phenomenon in numerous forest understory herbs in North America. The...
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Oak Savanna Restoration
This work, currently funded by the Joint Fire Sciences Program, addresses effectiveness of oak ecosystem restoration strategies at multiple study sites across the Midsouth, including Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. The project was initiated in 2008 by colleague Pat...
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Research on wildlife-plant interactions, and effects of global change on biodiversity
Contact: Charles Kwit, Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee, 274 Ellington Plant Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996
Lab News (click here for old news)
Former undergraduate, Kent Connell, has paper accepted in Ecosphere.
Chelsea Miller wins Botanical Society of America Graduate Student Research Award
Chloe Lash wins Mountain Lake Biological Station Fellowship
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