Graduate Students:

• Lisa Hardin Hammer  (M.S. 1987) - Pollination ecology of Passiflora edulis in south Florida.

• Lisa Spier (M.S. 1991) - The influence of fire on the reproductive biology of Jacquemontia

• Carl Weekley (M.S. 1993) - Gall insects on the black-bead, Pithecellobium guadalupense.

• Sandra Vardaman (M.S. 1994) - Reproductive biology of Melaleuca in south Florida.

• Maria Cristina Rodriguez (M.S.1995) - Herbivore diversity on the wild tamarind, Lysiloma

• Piyal Kariyawasam (M.S.1996) - Stress and death in south Florida slash pine

• Joe O'Brien (M.S. 1997) - Population ecology of Galactia spp. in south Florida

• Anne Cox (PhD 1998) - Comparative reproductive ecology of pawpaws (Asimina)

• Suzanne Kennedy (M.S. 1998) - Seed bank dynamics of Tiny Polygala

• Sherine El-Sawa (M.S. 1998) - Pollination of jackfruit in south Florida

• Eileen Smith (M.S. 2000) - Restoration of Atala butterfly populations in south Florida

• John Geiger (M.S. 2002, PhD 2007) - Pollination in pine rockland fragments

• Hong Liu (PhD 2003) - Population biology of Chamaecrista lineata var. keyensis in the Lower Keys

• Lauren Linares (M.S. 2004) - Reproductive biology of Amorpha crenulata

• Yuria Cardel (PhD 2004) - Interaction of pollination and herbivory in Centrosema virginiana

• Elena Pinto-Torres (M.S. 2004) - Pollination and breeding system of Jacquemontia reclinata

• Heather Gamper Plata (M.S. 2004) - Interactions among Homoptera, birds, and ants

• Jed Redwine (PhD 2007) - Phenology and ecophysiology of trees of the Keys

• Philip Gonsiska (M.S. 2005) - Ecology of Catopsis berteroniana

• Vinda Maharaj (M.S. 2007) - Termite foraging behavior

• Monica O'Chaney (M.S. 2007) - Herbivory on native and exotic Crotalaria spp.

• Michael Matthews (MS 2009, EVR) – Deep ecology, nature teaching, and pine rocklands

• Ron Mossman (PhD 2009) – Dispersal ecology of Everglades plants

• Roxaneh Khorsand Rosa (PhD 2013) - Limits to fruit production in Mauritia palms in Brazil 

• Beyte Barrios (M.S. 2010, PhD 2015) – Fire and pollination of pine rockland plants

• Ian Jones (PhD 2016) – Reproductive costs of extrafloral nectar

• Brittany Marie Harris (MS 2016; PhD 2022) - Pollination networks in the Florida Keys-  effects of disturbance

• Andrea Salas (MS 2016; PhD candidate) - Native insectary plants may benefit crop plants

• Jaeson Clayborn (PhD 2018) – Invasive ants and rare butterflies

• Adel Pena (MS 2018) - Documenting floristic change in pine rockland Fabaceae

• Blaire Kleiman (MS 2021) - Do weeds support insects that can benefit crop plants?

• Maria Cleopatra Pimienta (PhD 2023) - Diurnal and noctural pollinators and floral evolution