Jacob Zeldin
Research Ecologist and Micropropagation Coordinator
Curriculum Vitae:
Teaching and Research Affiliations:
- Plant Science and Conservation, 91短视频
Selected Professional Associations:
- Ecological Society of America
- Natural Areas Association
Research Interests:
- Plant community ecology
- Plant functional traits
- Plant Tissue Culture
- Rare and exceptional species conservation and propagation
- Restoration ecology
- Prairie, arid-land, and alpine grassland ecology
- Data analysis and visualization
Statement:
I am a researcher in Dr. Andrea Kramer鈥檚 lab at the 91短视频. My work involves investigating functional traits and diversity in plant communities, rare species conservation, and restoration ecology. My current projects include research into intraspecific trait variation in prairie plant species, implications of hierarchical trait variation in plant competition, root-shoot trait covariation, and conservation of rare and threatened plant species. I manage a microproagation lab focusing on developing tissue culture techniques for both rare/exceptional and restoration-relevant plant species. I coordinate the Synthesis Center for Conservation and Restoration at the 91短视频 for Plant Conservation Science and Action at the 91短视频. I also work to support data analysis and visualization for projects with collaborators at the 91短视频 as well as a number of institutions nationally and internationally.
Selected Publications:
- Zeldin, J, Lichtenberger, TM, Foxx, AJ, Webb Williams, E, Kramer, AT. (2020) Intraspecific functional trait structure of restoration鈥恟elevant species: Implications for restoration seed sourcing. J Appl Ecol. (2020); 57: 864鈥&苍产蝉辫;874.
- Williams, E.W., Zeldin, J., Semski, W.R. et al. Phylogenetic distance and resource availability mediate direction and strength of plant interactions in a competition experiment. Oecologia (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05024-4
- Kramer, A.T., Crane, B., Downing, J., Hamrick, J.L., Havens, K., Highland, A., Jacobi, S. K., Kaye, T. N., Lonsdorf, E. V., Ramp Neale, J. , Novy, A. , Smouse, P. E., Tallamy, D. W., White, A. and Zeldin, J. (2019), Sourcing native plants to support ecosystem function in different planting contexts. Restor. Ecol. doi:10.1111/rec.12931
- Kildisheva, O., Kramer, A.T., Erickson, T., Zeldin, J., and Merrit, D. (2019), Optimizing physiological dormancy break of understudies cold desert perennials to improve seed-based restoration. Journal of Arid Environments. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.104001