Michael Osland

Research Ecologist

Short Biography

Research Interests

The response of ecosystems to changing conditions and the implications for ecosystem conservation and restoration. Much of my research focuses on ecosystem at the land-water interface (in other word, wetlands).

Education

2009    Ph.D., Ecology, Duke University

2000    B.A., Biology, Willamette University

Professional and Research Experience

2011-Present: Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA

2009-2011: Postdoctoral Ecologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, FL

2007-2009: Research and Teaching Assistant, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC

2006-2007: Fulbright Fellow, Costa Rica

2003-2006: Research and Teaching Assistant, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC

2000-2003: U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, El Salvador

Publications

Osland MJ, Spivak AC, Nestlerode JA, Lessmann JM, Almario AE, Heitmuller PT, Russell MJ, Krauss KW, Alvarez F, Dantin DD, Harvey JE, From AS, Cormier N, Stagg CL. 2012. Ecosystem development after mangrove wetland creation: plant-soil change across a 20-year chronosequence. Ecosystems 15: 848-866. [Download File]

Osland MJ, González E, Richardson CJ. 2011. Restoring diversity after cattail expansion: disturbance, resilience, and seasonality in a tropical dry wetland. Ecological Applications 21: 715-728. [Download File]

Osland MJ, González E, Richardson CJ. 2011. Coastal freshwater wetland plant community response to seasonal drought and flooding in northwestern Costa Rica. Wetlands 31: 641-652. [Download File]

Osland, M. J. 2009. Managing invasive plants during wetland restoration: the role of disturbance, plant strategies, and environmental filters. Ph.D. Dissertation. Duke University, Durham, NC.

Osland MJ, Pahl JW, Richardson CJ. 2009. Native bamboo (Arundinaria gigantea (Walter) Muhl., Poaceae) establishment and growth after the removal of an invasive non-native shrub (Ligustrum sinense Lour., Oleaceae): implications for restoration. Castanea 74: 247-258. [Download File]

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