{"id":4793,"date":"2018-02-21T18:17:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2022-10-07T18:18:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T18:18:39","slug":"field-botany-in-northeast-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/2018\/02\/21\/field-botany-in-northeast-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Botany in Northeast Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[Past Projects]<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2>Dr. Randy Mitchell and Andrea Kornbluh<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-391\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1447\/2018\/02\/20170805_164036-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-395\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1447\/2018\/02\/20170806_120919-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Research:<\/h3>\n<p>One focus of our research is the effect of plant species distribution on pollinator behavior and diversity. There are many factors which determine where a plant species will live.\u00a0 Abiotic factors include climate, soil type, and amount and frequency of disturbance.\u00a0 Biotic factors include interactions with other species; for example, pollinators such as bees and moths, herbivores such as deer, other nearby plants, and microbes that can increase plant growth or cause disease.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-403\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1447\/2018\/02\/IMG_0297-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-407\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1447\/2018\/02\/Eldora-Preserve-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Student Research Opportunities:<\/h3>\n<p>We are currently investigating the natural history and distribution of wetland habitats in northeast Ohio with the goal of understanding how land use change and natural events have shaped plant communities.\u00a0 This research will involve both field work and searching historical documents (maps, field trip descriptions, and herbarium records).\u00a0 The student researcher will:\u00a0 gain an understanding of the different types of wetlands in northeast Ohio, learn to identify common wetland plants, and develop methods to assess the extent of disturbance using indicator plant species.\u00a0 There will be additional opportunities to learn about pollinators and pollination ecology through ongoing research projects in the lab.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/\">Click here for more about Dr. Mitchell&#8217;s lab<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Past Projects] Dr. Randy Mitchell and Andrea Kornbluh Research: One focus of our research is the effect of plant species distribution on pollinator behavior and diversity. There are many factors which determine where a plant species will live.\u00a0 Abiotic factors include climate, soil type, and amount and frequency of disturbance.\u00a0 Biotic factors include interactions with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/2018\/02\/21\/field-botany-in-northeast-ohio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Field Botany in Northeast Ohio<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125789],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4794,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}