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Diane De Steven
Diane De Steven 

Employee Information
Name: Diane De Steven 
Title: Research Ecologist
Unit: Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research (4155)
Phone: 662-686-3602
Fax: 662-686-3195 - Location Fax
E-Mail: ddesteven@fs.fed.us

Location Information
Mailing
Address:		 USDA-Forest Service
Southern Hardwoods Laboratory
P.O. Box 227
Stoneville, MS 38776-0227
Shipping
Address:		 432 Stoneville Rd.
Stoneville MS 38776
Location
Phone:		 662-686-3154

Research Information

Education:
B.S., Kent State University, 1974; M.S., University of Michigan, 1977; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980

Current Research:
  • Testing methods and models for restoring wetland and bottomland forest ecosystems
  • Characterizing environmental factors that regulate diversity and dynamics of wetland and bottomland forest communities
  • Understanding the effects of ecological disturbances on vegetation succession
  • Other interests: approaches to teaching plant and wetland ecology

Collaborative Research:
  • Effects of climate variation on long-term vegetation dynamics in wetlands
  • Characterizing hydrologic regimes of coastal plain depression wetlands
  • Dynamics of early tree regeneration in bottomland and tropical rain forests

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