Steve Rice
Professor, Ph.D. Duke University, 1994
Postdoc: UNC at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Ecology and physiology of mosses and conservation biology
Recent Publications:
- RICE, S. K., N. Neal, J. Mango and K. Black 2011. Relationships among shoot tissue, canopy and photosynthetic characteristics in the feathermoss Pleurozium schreberi. The Bryologist 114: 367-378.
- RICE, S. K., N. Neal, J. Mango and K. Black 2010. Modeling bryophyte productivity across gradients of water availability using canopy form—function relationships. In: Tuba, Z. and N. Slack (eds.), Bryophyte Ecology and Global Change. Cambridge University Press.
- RICE, S. K., L. Aclander and D.T. Hanson 2008. Do bryophyte shoot systems function like vascular plant leaves or canopies? Functional trait relationships in Sphagnum mosses (Sphagnaceae). American Journal of Botany 95: 1366-1374.
- Malcolm, G.M., D.S. Bush and S.K. RICE 2008.
Soil nitrogen conditions approach pre-invasion levels following restoration of
nitrogen-fixing black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) stands in a
pine-oak. Restoration Ecology 16: 70-78.
Courses: Physiology of Cells and Organisms (BIO 112), Biology of Plants (BIO 315) and Conservation Biology (BIO 322)
email: rices@union.edu
Phone: (518) 388-6243
Office: Wold 121