| Greg Spyreas | ||||
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Email: spyreas@illinois.edu Title: Plant Ecologist
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| Activities | I focus on ecological research that aims to bring about better conservation, restoration, management, monitoring, and understanding of natural areas and their flora's/fauna's-- in human dominated landscapes. I can also usually accommodate speaking requests on topics related to those listed below (contact me by email). |
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| Research |
Applied ecology in the Midwestern U.S., mainly related to: ---Biodiversity & Conservation; ---Non-native plant invasions; ---Community Ecology; ---Restoration Ecology; ---Natural areas management; ---Fire Ecology; ---Human disturbance in natural areas; ---Floristic Quality Assessment; ---Oak-hickory forest regeneration; ---Vegetation monitoring |
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| Selected publications |
GENERAL AUDIENCE + A Guide to Forest Conservation and Management in Illinois + 20 Not To Be Missed Cook County Natural Areas + Wolf Lake: Rarities in the Rough SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS Spyreas, G., Meiners, S., Matthews, J.W., and Molano-Flores, B. 2012. Successional trends in Floristic Quality. Journal of Applied Ecology 49(2): 339-348 (PDF) (WIley) McClain, W. E., T. L. Esker, B. R. Edgin, G. Spyreas, and J. E. Ebinger. 2010. Fire History of a post oak (Quercus stellata Wang.) woodland in Hamilton County, Illinois U.S.A. Castanea 75(4) 461-474.(PDF) (BioOne) Matthews, J.W. and Spyreas, G. 2010. Convergence and divergence in wetland restoration trajectories as a framework for monitoring restoration progress Journal of Applied Ecology 47(5): 1128-1136. (PDF) (Wiley) Chen, H., H. Qian, G. Spyreas, and M. Crossland. 2010. Native-exotic species richness relationships across spatial scales and biotic homogenization in wetland plant communities of Illinois, USA. Diversity and Distributions 16(5): 737-743. (PDF) (Wiley) Spyreas, G., B. W. Wilm, A.E. Plocher, D.M. Ketzner, J. W. Matthews, J. Ellis, E. J. Heske. 2010. Biological consequences of invasion by reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea). Biological Invasions 12(5): 1253-1267.(PDF) (Springerlink) Lankau, R., V. Nuzzo, G. Spyreas, and A. S. Davis. 2009. New evolutionary limits ameliorate the negative impact of an invasive plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(36): 15362-15367.(PDF) (National Academy of Sciences) (PubMed) Matthews, J.M., G. Spyreas, and A. Endress. 2009. Trajectories of vegetation-based indicators used to assess wetland restoration progress. Ecological Applications 19(8):2093-2107. (PDF) (ESA) Spyreas, G. and J.W. Matthews. 2006. Floristic conservation value, nested understory floras, and the development of second-growth forest. Ecological Applications 16(4): 1351-1366.(PDF) (JSTOR) Spyreas, G., J. Ellis, C. Carroll, B. Molano-Flores. 2004. Non-native plant commonness and dominance in the forests, wetlands, and grasslands of Illinois, USA. Natural Areas Journal 24(4):290-299.(PDF) (NAA Journal) Gibson, D.J., G. Spyreas, and J. Benedict. 2002. Life history of Microstegium vimineum (Poaceae), an invasive grass in southern Illinois. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Club 129(3): 207-219.(PDF) (JSTOR) Spyreas, G., D.J. Gibson, and M. Basinger. 2001. Endophyte infection levels of native and naturalized fescues in Illinois and England. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Club 128: 25-34.(PDF) (JSTOR) Spyreas, G., D.J. Gibson, and B.A. Middleton. 2001. Effects of Endophyte Infection in tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea: Poaceae) on Community Diversity. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162(6): 1237-1245.(PDF) (OpenSIUC) |
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| Education | PHD, candidate, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana , 2007-Present MS, Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale , 2000 BA, Environmental Studies, Denison University , 1997 | |||
Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois
INRS State Scientific Surveys
