Dr. Norma Fowler

Biography

Norma L. Fowler is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology at the College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in plant population biology and plant ecology, focusing on the dynamics and regulation of plant populations. Her research encompasses competitive and facilitative interactions among plants and their consequences on community structure and species distributions. Her work particularly emphasizes the effects of herbivory and fire on plant population dynamics, plant-plant interactions, and landscape-scale distributions. Fowler employs a variety of plant species, including grasses, forbs, and woody plants, to study communities, particularly in the central Texas savannas and woodlands. She employs field experiments, greenhouse studies, garden experiments, descriptive field studies, and theoretical models in her research. Currently, she is involved in multiple projects aimed at conservation applications and the preservation of endangered species, especially focusing on annual forb management in woodland preserves.

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