Copyright 2012 Richard P. Shefferson. All rights reserved.
Kimberly Kellett
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
I started working toward my Ph. D in Ecology as a member of the Shefferson lab in
Fall 2010. My broad interests include evolutionary biology of plants, tropical
ecology, and conservation ecology. I plan to pursue research that combines these
interests by using tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, a perennial weed that
populates disturbed areas in the neotropics, to answer questions regarding the
evolutionary history and current role of weeds in tropical habitats. Investigating the
influence of environmental and genetic factors on mechanisms of reproduction
and defense, discovering potential impacts of A. curassavica on forest habitat, and
determining patterns of gene flow and dispersal of weedy species in tropical
environments hold particular intrigue as research pursuits.
For my CV, please click here
AWARDS AND HONORS
PAPERS
POSTERS
I started working toward my Ph. D in Ecology as a member of the Shefferson lab in
Fall 2010. My broad interests include evolutionary biology of plants, tropical
ecology, and conservation ecology. I plan to pursue research that combines these
interests by using tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, a perennial weed that
populates disturbed areas in the neotropics, to answer questions regarding the
evolutionary history and current role of weeds in tropical habitats. Investigating the
influence of environmental and genetic factors on mechanisms of reproduction
and defense, discovering potential impacts of A. curassavica on forest habitat, and
determining patterns of gene flow and dispersal of weedy species in tropical
environments hold particular intrigue as research pursuits.
For my CV, please click here
AWARDS AND HONORS
 | University of Georgia Presidential Graduate Fellow | |
| Odum School of Ecology Small Grant |
PAPERS
| Shefferson, R.P., T. Kull, K. Tali, and K.M. Kellett. 2012. Linking vegetative | |
| dormancy to fitness in two long-lived herbaceous perennials. EcoSphere 3: 13. |
POSTERS
| Kellett, K. and R.P. Shefferson. 2011. Evaluating effects of stress on orchid | |
| populations with integral projection models. 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, Texas, USA. |
