Julie S. Denslow

Research Ecologist and Team Leader - Invasive Species Unit
Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service
Ph.D., University of Wisconson, Madison, Wisconson, 1978
jdenslow@fs.fed.us

 

Research Interests

  • Ecology of invasive exotic plant species in tropical and warm temperate forests.
  • Evaluating exotic plant species for their impacts and risks to native communities.
  • Ecosystem and population dynamic processes associated with disturbance to natural ecosystems, especially tropical rain forests and warm temperate forests
  • Effects of the changing hydrology on nutrient processes and forest dynamics in bottomland hardwood forests of southeastern U.S.
  • Consequences of seed dispersal and seedling establishment patterns to the population dynamics of forest trees and shrubs

Selected Publications

(In pr) DeWalt, S. J., J. S. Denslow, and J. Hamrick. Biomass allocation, growth and photosynthesis of native and invasive genotypes of the shrub Clidemia hirta grown in a common garden. Oecologia.

(In pr) S. J. DeWalt, J. S. Denslow and K. Ikes. Enemy release facilitates habitat expansion of the invasive tropical shrub, Clidemia hirta (Melastomatacee) Ecology 85.

(In pr) Daehler, C. C., J. S. Denslow, S. Ansari, and H.C. Kuo. A risk assessment system for screening out harmful inasive pest plants from Hawaii and other Pacific Islands. Conservation Biology

2003 Denslow, J. S. Weeds in paradise: Thoughts on the invasibility of tropical islands. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

2002 Smith, C. W., J. S. Denslow and S. Hight.(eds.) Biological control of invasive plants in native Hawaiian ecosystems. Proceedings of the 2000 Conservation Forum of the Secretariat for Conservation Biology. Technical Report 129, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 122pp

2002 Denslow, J. S. and L. L. Battaglia. Stand composition and structure across a changing hydrological gradient: Jean Lafitte National Park, Louisiana. Wetlands 22:738-752.

2001 D’Antonio, C., L. A. Meyerson, and J. S. Denslow. Exotic species and conservation: Research needs. In: M. Soule and G. Orians (eds.) Research priorities in conservation biology. Society of Conservation Biology. Island Press.

2000 J.S. Denslow and S. Guzman. Variation in stand structure, light, and seedling abundance across a tropical moist forest chronosequence, Panama. Journal of Vegetation Science. 11: 201-212

1988 J.S. Denslow and C. Padoch (eds.) People of the Tropical rain forest. U. of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 225 pp. (now in its second printing)