School of Theoretical and Applied Science (TAS)

Professor of Plant Ecology

Year Joined RCNJ: 1979

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7743
• E-mail: ekarlin@ramapo.edu  
• Office: G-420
• TAS Faculty Office Hours (PDF)
• Personal Website 

Education:

• B.A., Bard College
• M.S., S.U.N.Y., College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• Ph.D., University of Alberta, Canada

Courses Offered:

• Introduction to Environmental Science
• General Ecology
• Theoretical and Field Ecology
• Field Botany
• Biological Conservation
• Human Population Ecology

Teaching Interest:

• Environmental Science
• Ecology
• Field Botany

Research Interest:

• Wetland plant ecology
• Ecology and taxonomy of Sphagnum (peat moss)
• Biological conservation

Recent Publications:

• Karlin, E. F., S. C. Hotchkiss, S. B. Boles, H. K. Stenøien, K. Hassel, K. I. Flatberg & A. J. Shaw. 2011. High genetic diversity in a remote island population system: sans sex.
  New Phytologist: DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03999.x 
  Articles about the above study have appeared in: 
          National Geographic Daily News               Science Daily 
          American Scientist                                     Medical News Today 
• Karlin, E. F., R. E. Andrus, S. B. Boles, & A. J. Shaw. 2011. One haploid parent contributes 100% of the gene pool for a wide spread species in northwest North America.
  Molecular Ecology 20: 753–767. Articles about the above study have appeared in: 

• Karlin, E. F., S. B. Boles, R. D. Seppelt, S. Terracciano, & A. J. Shaw. 2011. The peat moss Sphagnum cuspidatum in Australia: microsatellites provide a global perspective. Systematic Botany 26: 22–32.  
• Karlin, E. F., G. P. Gardner*, K. Lukshis*, S. B. Boles, & A. J. Shaw. 2010. Allopolyploidy in Sphagnum mendocinum and S. papillosum (Sphagnaceae).    The Bryologist 113: 114–119. 
• Karlin, E. F., M. M. Giusti*, R. A. Lake*, S. B. Boles & A. J. Shaw. 2010. Microsatellite analysis of Sphagnum centrale, S. henryense, and S. palustre (Sphagnaceae). The Bryologist 113: 90–98. 
• Karlin, E. F., S. B. Boles, M. Ricca, E. Temsch, J. Greilhuber & A. J. Shaw. 2009. Three-genome mosses: complex double allopolyploid origins for triploid gametophytes in Sphagnum.  Molecular Ecology 18: 1439–1454.

Complete list of publications

* Ramapo College undergraduate student