Impacts of Exotic Invasive Vines on the Ecology and Reproduction of the Endangered Trillium Reliquum

Trillium reliquum Freeman is an endangered plant restricted to 20 counties in three states that is imperilled by habitat loss and encroachment from the exotic invasive vines, kudzu (Pueraria montana Ohwi) and Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica Thunb.) My study examines the impact of kudzu and honeysuckle on native plant communities, T. reliquum population dynamics and T. reliquum reproduction.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Biology (M.S.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Biology

Year dc:date.available

2004

Author dc:creator

• Heckel, Christopher D.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Alan W. Harvey
• Lorne M. Wolfe

• ETD
• Trillium reliquum
• Invasive species
• Rare species
• Population dynamics
• Matric models
• See production
• Breeding system
• Plant community
• Pueraria montana
• Lonicera japonica
• Trilliums
• Invasive plants
• Kudzu
• Japanese honeysuckle

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/692

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1692