David A. White

Professor
E-mail: dawhite@loyno.edu
Phone: 865-2770, Office: Monroe Hall 332
Home Page: http://www.loyno.edu/~dawhite/

Ph.D. in Ecology, Tulane University, 1978.

Research interests

Plant community and population ecology in wetland ecosystems.

Current research interests

Study of the establishment and spread of the marsh reed, Phragmites australis, within the Mississippi River Delta and the community structure of tropical forests in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Recent publications

White , D.A., & C.S. Hood . 2004. Vegetation patterns and environmental gradients in tropical dry forests of the northern Yucatan peninsula, Mexico . Journal Vegetation Science 15:151-160

White , D.A., D.P. Hauber , & C.S. Hood . 2004. Clonal differences in Phragmites australis from an unique wetland landscape: the Mississippi River delta . Southeastern Naturalist 3:531-544 .

Martinez , M.L., G. Vazquez, D.A. White , G. Thivet , and M. Brenges . 2002 . Germination responses of five tropical beach dune species exposed to artificial sand burial and inundation by fresh and seawater. Canadian Journal of Botany 80:416-424.

White , D.A. and S.A. Skojac . 2002. Remnant bottomland forests near the terminus of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana . Castanea 67:134-145 .

Suttkus, R.D., D.A. White & M.F. Mette. 1999. Atlas of fishes of the St. Louis Bay drainage in southern Mississippi. Gulf Research Reports. Supplement I:1-92.

White, D.A. & S.P. Darwin.  Woody vegetation of tropical lowland deciduous forests and Mayan ruins in the north-central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.  Tulane Studies Zoology Botany.  30:1-25.

Courses

Biology of Organisms, Ecology & Evolution, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Human Ecology (non-majors).