Paul Gulezian

University of Illinois at Chicago

Prairie at Ted Stone Woods, Hodgkins, IL

I am a Ph.D. student in the Ecology and Evolution group at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  My advisor is Dennis Nyberg, whose research foci are natural areas revitalization and conservation.  I am a fellow in the first cohort of students in UIC’s IGERT grant in Landscape, Ecological, and Anthropogenic Processes (LEAP).  My research interests are broad, but my thesis research concerns invasive plant species in the context of human activities in the urban landscape.  I hope to integrate research on invasive plants from several scales to create a more complete picture of how biological invasions function in an ecological context.  For invasives in the global context see: The Global Invasive Species Database., for the regional context visit: The Midwest Invasive Plant Network.

Contact:

pgulez2@uic.edu

3474 SES M/C 066

845 West Taylor Street

Chicago, IL 60607

Tall Goldenrod, Solidago altissima, a native invasive, along Grand Avenue in Chicago.

Trout Lily, Erythronium americanum, a native spring ephemeral at risk from invasive species.

Sweet Black-eyed Susans,  Rudbeckia subtomentosa, a native wet prairie species.