Professor
Department of Biology
The University of Mississippi

Contact:
Office: 430 Shoemaker Hall

E-mail: mholland@olemiss.edu
Telephone: (662) 915-5874
FAX: (662) 915-5144

Research Interests

• Plant Ecology and Systematics
• Wetlands Ecology
• Landscape Ecology
• Ecology of Riparian Systems
• Biogeochemical Cycles
• Ecological Functioning of Constructed Wetland Systems

• Professor, Department of Biology, Univ. of MS, Oxford, Aug. 1995-present.
• Director, University of MS Field Station and Director, Center for Water and Wetland Resources (1995-2003);
• Senior Research Ecologist, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, ORD, U.S.E.P.A., Research Triangle Park, NC, Nov. 1993- August 1995.
• Director, Washington, D.C. Office, Ecological Society of America, Sept.1987-Oct. 1993.
• Consultant, UNESCO Ecological Sciences, Paris, France, 1986-1987 [one-year sabbatical leave].
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY (tenure awarded 1985, promoted to Associate Professor 1987) 1980-1989.

Graduate students

Balducci, Jill A. (1998)
Ecological integrity of wetland soils: testing of a perturbation index in northern Mississippi wetlands.
Master's thesis, Department of Biology.

Beadle, J. (2004)
Nitrogen and Phosphorus removal capabilities of Juncus effusus and Paspalum urvillei under eutrophic water conditions.
Master's Thesis, Department of Biology.

Chambers-Strong, L (2003)
An examination of soil biogeochemical properties and seed bank dynamics of timber harvested lands in Lafayette and Calhoun Counties, Mississippi.
Masters Thesis, Department of Biology.

Davis, S.A. (1998)
Vegetation and substrate types for wastewater treatment of wetlands.
Master's Thesis, Department of Biology

Faulkner, Alison (2006)
Nitrogen use efficiency in Cyperus haspan, a C3 wetland sedge, in a six-month greenhouse experiment at the University of Mississippi Field Station.
Master's Thesis, Department of Biology.

Helms, Clint (2009)
The effects of competition on the nitrogen uptake ability of Juncus effusus; an in-situ field experiment at the University of Mississippi Field Station.
Master's Thesis, Department of Biology

Kroger, Robbie (2007)
Nitrogen and phosphorus flux in agricultural drainage ditches in northern Mississippi U.S.A. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Biology.

Menon, Rani (Ph.D. in progress)

Peltier, D. (2002)
Age determination of the freshwater mussel Amblema plicata of the Sunflower River.
Master's Thesis, Department of Biology.

Pigott, K.R. (1998)
Current woody vegetative community structure and composition in a 16km stretch of the Little Tallahatchie River
Master's Thesis, Department of Biology.

Rajkarnikar, Bikash (2005)
The effect of timber harvesting on soil biogeochemical and physical properties: resilience studies on disturbed forests and their associated wetlands.
Master's Thesis, Department of Biology.

Ryndock, Jason (Master Thesis in Progress)

Smith, Rebecca L. (1997)
The resilience of bottomland hardwood wetland soils following timber harvest.
Master's Thesis, Department of Biology.