Kathryn M. Flinn

NSF International Research Fellow and
Richard H. Tomlinson Scholar

   

Department of Biology
McGill University

1205 Docteur Penfield
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1
Canada

607-273-3950
kathryn.flinn@mcgill.ca

   
RESEARCH INTERESTS
 
Plant ecology, population and community ecology, biogeography, conservation biology


EDUCATION
 

Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

B.S., Biology and English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

PUBLICATIONS  

Goodale, C.L., S.A. Thomas, G. Fredriksen, E.M. Elliott, K.M. Flinn, T.J. Butler, and M.T. Walter. 2009. Unusual seasonal patterns and inferred processes of nitrogen retention in forested headwater catchments of the Upper Susquehanna River. Biogeochemistry 93: 197-218. [pdf]

Flinn, K.M., M. J. Lechowicz, and M.J Waterway. 2008. Plant species diversity and composition of wetlands within an upland forest. American Journal of Botany 95: 1216-1224 [pdf]

Flinn, K.M. 2007. Microsite-limited recruitment controls fern colonization of post-agricultural forests. Ecology 88: 3103-3114. [pdf]  

Vellend, M., K. Verheyen, K.M. Flinn, H. Jacquemyn, A. Kolb, H. Van Calster, G. Peterken, B.J. Graae, J. Bellemare, O. Honnay, J. Brunet, M. Wulf, F. Gerhardt, and M. Hermy. 2007. Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species–environment relationships via agricultural land use. Journal of Ecology 95: 565-573. [pdf]  

Flinn, K.M., and P.L. Marks. 2007. Agricultural legacies in forest environments: Tree communities, soil properties and light availability. Ecological Applications 17: 452-463. [pdf]  

Case, M.A., K.M. Flinn, J.E. Jancaitis, A.E. Alley, and A.E. Paxton. 2007. Declining abundance of American ginseng documented by herbarium specimens. Biological Conservation 134: 22-30. [pdf]  

Flinn, K.M. 2006. Reproductive biology of three fern species may contribute to differential colonization success in post-agricultural forests. American Journal of Botany 93: 1289-1294. [pdf]  

Flinn, K.M., and M. Vellend. 2005. Recovery of forest plant communities in post-agricultural landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 243-250. [pdf]  

Flinn, K.M., M. Vellend, and P.L. Marks. 2005. Environmental causes and consequences of forest clearance and agricultural abandonment in central New York. Journal of Biogeography 32: 439-452. [pdf]  

Flinn, K.M., and P.L. Marks. 2004. Land-use history and forest herb diversity in Tompkins County, New York, USA. Pages 81-95 in O. Honnay, K. Verheyen, B. Bossuyt, and M. Hermy, eds. Forest Biodiversity: Lessons from History for Conservation. CABI, Wallingford, UK.    

In review 

Flinn, K.M.,T.C. Gouhier, M.J. Lechowicz, and M.J. Waterway. Dispersal traits regulate spatial and environmental controls on plant community composition in wetlands.

Flinn, K. M., M. J. Waterway and M. J. Lechowicz. Disjunct between performance and distribution in the sedge Carex prasina.



 
Last update: July 15, 2009