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Department
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- Margaret M. Carreiro, Associate Professor
- Ph.D., 1989. University of Rhode Island.
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- Nutrient cycling, ecosystem ecology of terrestrial habitats, particularly those in urban and suburban landscapes. M.Carreiro@louisville.edu
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- Research Interest areas:
Understanding how cities and urban sprawl affect natural ecosystems, especially forests. Using forests in cities as predictors of the effects of global environmental change on regional forest health and resilience. Specific areas of focus are understanding how warmer temperatures, air pollutants like nitrogen and sulfur compounds and exotic species affect plants, microbes and soil chemistry which in turn affect ecosystem processes of nutrient cycling, primary production and plant community change.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities:
- Currently there are undergraduate students working in my laboraroty determining the plant community composition of oak forests along an urban-to-rural land use gradient from Iroquois Park to Bernheim Research Forest to discover whether land use affects the plant species that are there.
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- Additional projects available for undergraduate participation:
- Urban effects on precipitation chemistry in oak forests along the Louisville urban-rural gradient
- Land use effects on litter decomposition
- Microbial extracellular enzyme responses to urban envronments in forest soils
- Nitrogen cycling in soils
- Effects of land use on soil respiration and soil moisture in oak forests along the Louisville urban-rural gradient.
- Tree seedling responses to urban conditions in forests along the Louisville urban-rural gradient.
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