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    Environmental Horticulture

    Environmental Horticulture

    Restoration & Conservation Horticulture

    Ecotourism in Florida has a $7.8 billion yearly impact on the state's economy. The areal extent of Florida's unique ecosystems has been reduced by approximately 57%. Habitat has been converted to residential, agricultural, and commercial use; remaining habitat has been fragmented, hydrologically altered, fire-suppressed, and overrun by invasive plants. Our Plant Restoration and Conservation Consortium programs are addressing this challenge by developing strategies for invasive species management, reinstatement of natural disturbance regimes, and active revegetation of habitats with native species. Ex-situ conservation approaches, including seed storage, plant propagation (i.e. tissue culture, vegetative and sexual propagation) and genetic diversity characterization, are developed for critical native species. In addition to practical applications, the program makes considerable contributions to advances in basic science including the fields of conservation genetics, restoration ecology, and plant physiology (over 41 peer-reviewed publications and more than $2 million grant dollars generated in the last three years) and education (over 15 peer-reviewed teaching publications in the last three years).

    Carrie Adams

    Carrie Adams

    Associate Professor
    Restoration Ecology
    (352) 273-4502

     
     
     
     
     
    Hector Pérez

    Hector Pérez

    Professor
    Seed Biology, Conservation
    (352) 273-4503

     
     
     
     
     
    Andrew Koeser

    Andrew Koeser

    Associate Professor
    Landscape Management
    (813) 633-4150

     
     
     
     
     


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    Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of Florida, IFAS
    2550 Hull Road, Rm. 1549 (W.M. Fifield Hall) PO Box 110670 Gainesville, FL 32611-0670
    (352) 392-1831

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