After completing graduate work in ecology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Melampy went to Colombia as a Peace Corps volunteer to assist in the development of a national park. Peace Corps led him to a teaching position at the University of Puerto Rico. After three years in Puerto Rico, he returned to the mainland where he secured a position at Baldwin-Wallace. Dr. Melampy has been at B-W since 1986 and is responsible for teaching courses in general ecology, evolution, vertebrate natural history, field biology (for non-majors), tropical ecology, and environmental issues. The tropical ecology course comprises part of a study abroad program in Ecuador that he co-coordinates on an alternate year basis. His research interests focus on the ecological consequences of habitat fragmentation. Currently, he is exploring the reproductive success of mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum, in forest fragments that comprise parts of the Cleveland Metroparks.
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Publications
Podophyllum peltatum. in preparation.
in Berea, Ohio. in preparation.
northern Ohio. American Midland Naturalist, 141:284-292.
Populations of Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum). Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Ecological Society of America held in Pittsburgh, August 2010.
oral presentation made at the annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science, Wittenberg University,
Springfield, Ohio. Also presented as a poster at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America
held in August 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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