Name: Timothy Bell
Title: Professor of Botany
Department: Department of Biological Sciences
Address: Chicago State University, 9501 S King Dr., Chicago IL 60628
Phone (Office): 773-995-2442
E-mail: tbell22@csu.edu
Education
Research Interests
Current Projects
Publications
Current Graduate Students/Research Assistants
Education
Ph.D. in Botany and Plant Physiology, Rutgers - The State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1986
M.S. in Botany, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1979
B.S. in Biology, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, 1977
Research Interests
Conservation Biology
Environmental Botany
Ecology And Population Dynamics Of Endangered Plant Species
Population Viability Analysis
Current Projects
Barrens Restoration Management Plan at Hickory Creek Nature Preserve, Will County, Illinois
Demographic Trend Analysis and Population Viability Index for Illinois populations of the Federal Threatened Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera leucophaea).
Fluctuating asymmetry as measure of genetic and environmental stress in plants.
Impacts of Deer Browsing on Vegetation in Will County Forest Preserves.
Population ecology of the Savanna Blazingstar, Liatris scariosa var. nieuwlandii, a threatened plant species of Illinois.
Viability analysis of a Restored Population of the Federal Threatened Pitcher's Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) in Illinois. Cirsium pitcher restoration website: http://www.cbgscience.org/cirsium_pitcheri/index.htm
Recovery Status Assessment for Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid and Reintroduction and Management Recommendations for Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid and Savanna Blazing Star at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie.
Integrating Long-term Demographic Data and Repeated Genetic Sampling for Viability Analysis of Natural and Restored Populations of Pitcher’s Thistle.
Publications
Bell, T. J., and I. A. Ungar. 1981. Factors affecting the establishment of natural vegetation on a coal strip mine spoil bank in southeastern Ohio. Am. Midl. Nat. 105:19-31.
Bell, T. J., and J. A. Quinn. 1985. Relative importance of chasmogamously and cleistogamously derived seeds of Dichanthelium clandestinum (L.) Gould. Bot. Gaz. 146:252-258.
Bell, T. J., and J. A. Quinn. 1987. Effects of soil moisture and light intensity on the chasmogamous and cleistogamous components of reproductive effort in Dichanthelium clandestinum populations. Can. J. Bot. 65:2243-2249.
Bell, T. J., M. Bowles and K. McEachern. 2003. Projecting the success of plant population restoration with viability analysis. In: Brigham, C.A., Schwartz, M.W. (eds) Population Viability in Plants: Conservation, Management, and Modeling of Rare Plants. Springer-Verlag Berlin, pp 313-350.
Bell, T. J., M. Bowles, J. McBride, K. Havens, P. Vitt, and K. McEachern. 2002. Reintroducing Pitcher’s Thistle. Endangered Species Bulletin. 27(3):14-15.
Bowles, M., J. McBride and T. Bell. 2001. Ecological restoration of the federal threatened Mead’s Milkweed. Ecological Restoration. 19:235-241
Bowles, M., L. Zettler, T. Bell, and P.Kelsey. 2005. Relationships Between Soil Characteristics, Distribution and Restoration Potential of The Federal Threatened Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid, Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl. American Midland Naturalist. 154 (2): 273-285
Bowles, M., M. J. Jones, J. McBride, T. Bell and C. Dunn. 2000. Structural Composition And Species Richness Indices Upland Forests of the Illinois Chicago Region. Erigenia, Number 18, August 2000, 28-52.
Bowles, M., M. J. Jones, J. McBride, T. Bell and C. Dunn. 2005. Temporal Instability in Chicago’s Upland Old Growth Forests. Chicago Wilderness Journal.
Campbell, C. S., J. A. Quinn, G. P. Cheplick, and T. J. Bell. 1983. Cleistogamy in grasses. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 14:411-441.
Mauger, D., T. Bell and E. Peters. 2000. Distribution and Habitat of the Southern Two-lined Salamander, Eurycea cirrigera, in Will County, Illinois: Implications for Population Management and Monitoring. Jour. Iowa Acad. Sci. 107(3):168-174.
Zettler, L.W., K.A. Piskin, S.L. Stewart, J. J. Hartsock M. Bowles and T.J. Bell. 2005. Protocorm mycobionts of the Federally threatened eastern prairie fringed orchid, Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindley, and a technique to prompt leaf elongation in seedlings. Studies In Mycology 53: 163–171.
Current Graduate Students/Research Assistants
Omosede Ighile
Nikko Demerite
Keytha Payton
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