Coastal Wetlands StudiesXuan Chen
2015 The Garden Club of America Award in Coastal Wetlands Studies
Xuan Chen, a Ph.D. candidate at Louisiana State University, Department of Entomology, is researching floating marshes, a globally rare and unique type of wetland that serves important ecological functions such as protecting the coastline from wave action but that also suffer many types of disturbances, including multiple plant invasions. His study is the first of its kind in the state and will use ants as bio indicators to study how successive invasive woody plants affect the floating marsh ecosystem. As an ant specialist, he encourages conservation biologists to add insects to their environmental monitoring and has even discovered a new ant species to the United States.
Funded by the 2014 Annual Meeting hosted by Zone IX, New Orleans, (LA)
The Garden Club of America Award in Coastal Wetlands Studies
To promote, expand, and enrich the body of research concerning the coast by actively supporting graduate students in the field of coastal wetlands science.
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