Biology
Margaret Metz
Assistant Professor of Biology
Margaret MetzCopyright, Steve Hambuchen
Biology-Psychology Hall
How do over a thousand species of trees coexist in an area the size of ~100 football fields? What happens to fire-prone forests when a non-native pathogen is introduced and kills high numbers of just a few species? I am a plant community ecologist, and those are two examples of questions I investigate in my research on forest diversity. I explore the relative importance of biotic interactions, disturbance, and the abiotic environment in driving dynamics. I have ongoing research programs in both the coastal forests of the western US, where a recently introduced pathogen is transforming forest diversity, and in the tropical rainforests of eastern Ecuador, where I have a long-term project on the role of natural regeneration in the maintenance of the hyperdiversity in Amazonian forests.
Teaching
BIO 141 – Investigations in Ecology and Environmental Science
BIO 223 – Plant Biology
BIO 490 – Disease Ecology
Academic Credentials
Postdoctoral Training, University of California, Davis. Plant Pathology.
PhD University of California, Berkeley, 2007. Integrative Biology
AB Princeton University, 1998. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Contact
Margaret Metz’s office is located in room 221 of BioPsych.
email mmetz@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7684
Margaret Metz Assistant Professor of Biology
Biology Lewis & Clark 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road MSC 53 Portland OR 97219 USA