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Glenn Matlack

Glenn Matlack, portrait
Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology
Porter 405, Athens Campus

Education

Ph.D. University College of North Wales, Bangor, UK 1984

Research

Faculty Research Focus Area: Eastern Deciduous Forest Ecology

Current and Recent Student Research Projects

  • Roadside tree microclimate and pavement effects
  • Interactions of plant mobility, habitat turnover, and habitat spatial structure (modeling)
  • Long-term impacts of land use in forests of SE Ohio
  • Urban Forests: Effects of street trees on urban microclimate and hardscape
  • Plant invasions as a community assembly process
  • Interactions of clonal growth and local environmental heterogeneity
  • Dispersal of forest herbs by animals

Courses

College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award 2008

Departmental Service

  • Department Promotion and Tenure Chair
  • College of Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee
  • Faculty Senator

Professional Service

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Ecology
  • Biodiversity Management Planning, Wayne National Forest

Selected References

Monsted J and GR Matlack. 2023. Human ecology of forest in an extraction-shaped landscape: Economic and demographic drivers of land use change in the Ohio Valley over 220 years. Regional Environmental Change, 23:101

Matlack, G.R., I. Khoury, B. Naik. 2022. Tree canopy macrostructure controls heating of asphalt pavement in a moist-temperate urban forest. Urban Ecosystems, 25, pages 967–976.

Monsted J and GR Matlack. 2021. Shaping the second-growth forest: fine-scale land use change in the Ohio Valley over 120 years. Landscape Ecology, in press .

Glick, M.D. and GR Matlack2020. Tree-base microsites contribute to physical heterogeneity and herb community structure in a temperate-deciduous forest . Journal of Vegetation Science, online .

Holmes MA and GR. Matlack. 2019. Non-native plant species show a legacy of agricultural history in second-growth forests of southeastern Ohio. Biological Invasions , 21, 3063–3076.

Holmes MA and GR. Matlack. 2019. Spatial structure develops early in forest herb populations, controlled by dispersal and reproductive schedule . Oecologia 189: 951-970.

Redwood, M.E. G.R. Matlack, and C.D. Huebner. 2019. Seed longevity and dormancy state in an invasive tree species: Ailanthus altissima . Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 146(2): 79–86.

Redwood, M.E. G.R. Matlack, and C.D. Huebner. 2018. Seed longevity and dormancy state in an invasive tree species: Ailanthus altissima. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, in press. DOI not available yet. A copy will be provided on request.

Holmes, M.A. and G.R. Matlack. 2018. Assembling the forest herb community after abandonment from agriculture: long-term successional dynamics differ with land-use history . Journal of Ecology, 106:2121–2131.

Redwood, M.E., G.R. Matlack, and C.D. Huebner. 2018. Seed longevity and dormancy state suggest management strategies for garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) and Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) in deciduous forest sites . Weed Science, 66: 190-198

Holmes, M.A. and G.R. Matlack. 2017. Forest structure develops through time: physical and biotic heterogeneity following abandonment from two forms of agriculture . Forest Ecology and Management, 404: 55-64.

Niederhauser EC and G.R. Matlack 2017. Secondary dispersal of forest herb seeds from raccoon dung: Contrasting service by multiple vectors . Plant Ecology, 218: 1135-1147

Holmes, M.A. and G.R. Matlack. 2017. Agricultural history drives structure and tree-species composition of second growth forest over 100 years in southeastern Ohio, USA . Journal of Vegetation Science, 28: 736–746.

Niederhauser, E.C. and G.R. Matlack 2017. Do deer and raccoons defecate in the right place? Fitness consequences of vertebrate seed dispersal for a deciduous forest herb. Oecologia, 183: 727-737

Holmes, M.A. and G.R. Matlack. 2017. Forest structure develops through time: physical and biotic heterogeneity following abandonment from two forms of agriculture. Forest Ecology and Management , in press.

Niederhauser EC and G.R. Matlack 2017. Secondary dispersal of forest herb seeds from raccoon dung: Contrasting service by multiple vectors. Plant Ecology , in press.

Matlack G.R., Naik B., Khoury I., Sinha G. 2016. Trees and pavement: a review of the effect of roadside trees on pavement performance and driving condition. Report to the Ohio Department of Transportation; Dec. 8, 2016. 54 pages.

Redwood, M.E., G.R. Matlack, C.D. Huebner. 2016. Seed longevity and dormancy state in a disturbance-dependent forest herb, Ageratina altissima . Seed Science Research, 26: 148 – 152

Niederhauser, E.C. and G.R. Matlack. 2016. Do deer and raccoons defecate in the right place? Fitness consequences of vertebrate seed dispersal for a deciduous forest herb. Oecologia, in press.

Niederhauser, E.C. and G.R. Matlack. 2015. All frugivores are not equal: Exploitation competition determines seed survival and germination in a fleshy-fruited forest herb. Plant Ecology , in press .

Matlack, GR. 2015. Managing fire in the mesic deciduous forest when fire history is unknown: response to Stambaugh et al. Conservation Biology , 29: 947-949.

Schweizer, P.E. and G.R. Matlack. 2014. Factors driving land use change and forest distribution on the outer coastal plain of Mississippi, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning , 121: 55–64.

Matlack, G.R. 2013. Reassessment of the use of fire as a management tool in deciduous forests of eastern North America. Conservation Biology , 27: 916-926.

K.E. Hougen and G.R. Matlack. 2012. Long-term effects of land use history on species composition in post-industrial forests of southeastern Ohio, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 269: 279–292..

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