Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois

Allen Plocher
  Email: a-ploch@inhs.illinois.edu
  Title: Forest Ecologist

Mailing address:
1816 S. Oak Street , MC–652   
Champaign, IL 61820
  Phone: 217-333-6292              Fax: 217-244-0802

 
Activities Monitoring forest regeneration and understory dynamics in response to the Great Flood of 1993 and 1994 on the Illinois River. Comparing plant community development in created wetlands in three geographic zones in Illinois. Comparing understory dynamics in floodplain forests along three Illinois rivers differing in hydrologic regime: the Illinois, the Rock, and the Spoon.

Courses Taught
Lab sections in Introductory Biology,Dendrology
Guest lecturer in Silviculture, Wetlands section of Environmental Impact Assessment (NRES)

Research
Forest dynamics, plant population biology, fire ecology, plant community response to disturbance, wetland community development

Professional
society
involvement
and activities
Member of the Torrey Botanical Society
Member of the Society of Wetland Scientists
Member of the Grand Prairie Friends

Education PhD, Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, 1993

MS, Forestry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1984

BS, Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, 1980

AAS, Forestry, Lancaster Community College, Clifton Forge, VA, 1977





Illinois Natural History Survey

1816 South Oak Street, MC 652
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-6880
cms@inhs.illinois.edu

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