Work:

I'm a research scientist (plant ecologist) at the USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit in University Park, PA. I began work there in the summer of 2002, investigating patterns of pasture biodiversity and their relationship to ecosystem function and productivity.

I received my PhD in 1998 from the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. My dissertation research was based in the Connecticut College Arboretum. Permanent transects were established in the Bolleswood Natural Area, part of the Arboretum, in 1952. These transects have been sampled every ten years. My objective was to investigate the interacting effects of site factors and land use history on vegetation change through time.

My post-doctoral work was with the USDA-ARS at the Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico. My research involved modeling the growth and spread of Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens) in Colorado. I also used a time series of remote sensing imagery to analyze the demography and spatial pattern of honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) in the northern Chihuahuan Desert.

Publications:

Goslee, S.C., R.P. Brooks and C.A. Cole. 1997. Plants as indicators of wetland water source. Plant Ecol. 131:199-206.

Coffin Peters, D.P. and S.C. Goslee. 2000. Landscape Diversity. In: Levin, S. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

Goslee, S.C., D.P.C. Peters and K.G. Beck. 2001. Modeling invasive weeds in grasslands: the role of allelopathy in Acroptilon repens invasion. Ecol. Mod. 139:31-45.

Urban, D., S. Goslee, K. Pierce and T. Lookingbill. 2002. Extending community ecology to landscapes. Ecoscience 9:200-212.

Rango, A., S. Goslee, J. Herrick, M. Chopping, K. Havstad, L. Huenneke, R. Gibbens, R. Beck and R. McNeely. 2002. Remote sending documentation of historic rangeland remediation treatments in southern New Mexico. J. Arid Env. 50:549-572.

Goslee, S.C., K.G. Beck and D.P.C. Peters. 2003. Distribution of Russian knapweed in Colorado: Climate and environmental factors. J. Range Manag. 56: 206-212.

Goslee, S.C., K.M. Havstad, D.P.C. Peters, A. Rango and W.H. Schlesinger. 2003. High-resolution images reveal rate and pattern of shrub encroachment over six decades in New Mexico, USA. J. Arid Env. 54: 755-767.

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