Charles (Chas) Zartman

Chas graduated at Duke University in 2004 (project studying the population biology of epiphyllous liverworts at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragmentation Research Project in the Brazilian Amazon).

Chas graduated with a major in Biology from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine 1993. He received a master's degree in Biology from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina in 1996. The thesis topic was on the community ecology of spray cliff habitats of the Chattooga River in the Southern Appalachian mountains. Before returning to work on his Ph.D. at Duke University, Chas spent two years working as a contract botanist in the southern Appalachians. He worked on old growth forest classification projects with the Highlands Biological Station (Highlands, NC), the Nature Conservancy (Southeastern Chapter), and the Chattooga River Watershed Coaltion (Clayton, GA) in the Great Smokies National Park and in the Southeastern Escarpment of the southern Blue Ridge. Chas also worked on an inventory of threatened and endangered plants of the Georgia Appalachian Trail under a grant administered by the National Park Service.

Publications:

Zartman C.E., Nascimento H.E.M. 2006. Are habitat-tracking metacommunities dispersal limited? Inferences from abundance-occupancy patterns of epiphylls in Amazonian forest fragments. Biological Conservation 127(1): 46-54.

Zartman C.E. 2003. Habitat fragmentation impacts on epiphyllous bryophyte communities in central Amazonia. Ecology 84(4): 948-954.

Moore G., Guaglianone E.R., Zartman C. 2002. Rhynchospora pseudomacrostachya, a new Brazilian species of Cyperaceae. Brittonia 54(4): 340-343.

Zartman C.E., Ackerman I.L. 2002. A new species of Vitalianthus (Lejeuneaceae, Hepaticae) from the Brazilian Amazon. Bryologist 105(2): 267-269.

Vanderpoorten A., Zartman C.E.2002. The Bryum bicolor complex in North America. Bryologist 105(1): 128-139.

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