	Norma Fowler Professor, Section of Integrative Biology
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Video: PC \| Mac E-mail: nfowler@uts.cc.utexas.edu Office: BIO 108B, (512) 471-1295 Lab: BIO 119, (512) 471-4546 Fax: (512) 232-9529	Education B.A., University of Chicago, 1973 Ph.D., Duke University, 1978 Postdoc, University College of North Wales Research Interests My students and I are currently pursuing a variety of questions in several areas of plant population biology and plant ecology. These areas include (1) the dynamics and regulation of plant populations and meta-populations; (2) competitive and facilitative interactions between plants and their consequences for community structure and for species distributions across their landscape; (3) the effects of herbivory on plant population dynamics, plant-plant interactions, community structure, and landscape-scale distributions. We address these topics using a variety of plant species (grasses, forbs, woody plants) and communities (from natural savanna and woodland to abandoned mines). Field, greenhouse, and garden experiments, descriptive field studies, and theoretical models are among the techniques used. A number of our current projects have conservation applications, including the preservation of an endangered annual forb and the management of woodland preserves. People in Dr. Fowler's lab. Instruction Faculty Advisor: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior degree option of the Biology B.S. degree plan. Lecture courses 2005-2006: Fall 2005 - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Graduate Core Course (Biology 384C) Spring 2006 - Conservation Biology (Biology 375) Awards/Honors Teaching Excellence Award, College of Natural Science, University of Texas, April 2000 Elected a Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 1990 Publications Russell, F.L., and N.L. Fowler. 2004. Effects of white-tailed deer on the population dynamics of acorns, seedlings and small saplings of Qercus buckleyi. Plant Ecology 173: 59-72. Fowler, N.L. 2002. The joint effects of herbivory, competition, and topographic position upon six grasses. Ecology 83: 2477-2488. Russell, F.L., D.B. Zippin, and N.L. Fowler. 2001. Effects of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on plants, plant populations, and communities: a review. American Midland Naturalist 146: 1-26. Pease, C.M. and N.L. Fowler. 1997. A systematic approach to some aspects of conservation biology. Ecology 78: 1321-1329. Fowler, N.L. 1995. Density-dependent demography in two grasses: a five-year study. Ecology 67: 545-554. Fowler, N.L. and K. Clay. 1995. Environmental heterogeneity, fungal parasitism and the demography of the grass Stipa leucotricha. Oecologia 103: 55-62.

Norma Fowler

Professor, Section of Integrative Biology

Education | Research Interests | Instruction | Awards | Publications

Video: PC | Mac

E-mail:
nfowler@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Office:
BIO 108B,
(512) 471-1295
Lab:
BIO 119,
(512) 471-4546
Fax:
(512) 232-9529

Education

B.A., University of Chicago, 1973
Ph.D., Duke University, 1978
Postdoc, University College of North Wales

Research Interests

My students and I are currently pursuing a variety of questions in several areas of plant population biology and plant ecology. These areas include (1) the dynamics and regulation of plant populations and meta-populations; (2) competitive and facilitative interactions between plants and their consequences for community structure and for species distributions across their landscape; (3) the effects of herbivory on plant population dynamics, plant-plant interactions, community structure, and landscape-scale distributions. We address these topics using a variety of plant species (grasses, forbs, woody plants) and communities (from natural savanna and woodland to abandoned mines). Field, greenhouse, and garden experiments, descriptive field studies, and theoretical models are among the techniques used. A number of our current projects have conservation applications, including the preservation of an endangered annual forb and the management of woodland preserves.

People in Dr. Fowler's lab.

Instruction

Faculty Advisor: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior degree option of the Biology B.S. degree plan.

Lecture courses 2005-2006:

Fall 2005 - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Graduate Core Course (Biology 384C)
Spring 2006 - Conservation Biology (Biology 375)

Awards/Honors

Teaching Excellence Award, College of Natural Science, University of Texas, April 2000
Elected a Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 1990

Publications

Russell, F.L., and N.L. Fowler. 2004. Effects of white-tailed deer on the population dynamics of acorns, seedlings and small saplings of Qercus buckleyi. Plant Ecology 173: 59-72.
Fowler, N.L. 2002. The joint effects of herbivory, competition, and topographic position upon six grasses. Ecology 83: 2477-2488.
Russell, F.L., D.B. Zippin, and N.L. Fowler. 2001. Effects of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on plants, plant populations, and communities: a review. American Midland Naturalist 146: 1-26.
Pease, C.M. and N.L. Fowler. 1997. A systematic approach to some aspects of conservation biology. Ecology 78: 1321-1329.
Fowler, N.L. 1995. Density-dependent demography in two grasses: a five-year study. Ecology 67: 545-554.
Fowler, N.L. and K. Clay. 1995. Environmental heterogeneity, fungal parasitism and the demography of the grass Stipa leucotricha. Oecologia 103: 55-62.