Eric M. Wiener

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ECOLOGY
B.S., Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D., University of Missouri - Saint Louis

Year Joined RCNJ: 2002

Courses Offered:

• First Year Seminar
• Introduction to Environmental Science
• Theoretical and Field Ecology
• General Ecology
• Biological Conservation
• Ecological Research - Design and Statistics
• Ecosystems

Teaching Interest:

• Ecology
• Field research methods
• Conservation biology
• environmental science
• statistics

Research Interest:

• Temperate and tropical forest ecology
• Tropical restoration ecology
• Conservation ecology
• Community ecology
• Avian ecology
• Plant-herbivore interactions

Recent Publications:

• Wiener, E. M. Ecological research and the management of young successional forests: a case study on the reintroduction of native tree species on a terra firme site in Northeastern Peru. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, in press.
• Wiener, E. M. in prep. for Siamazonía.  La Regeneración Arborea en un Bosque Lluvioso Tropical Secundario Experimental (Spanish translation of Ph. D. dissertation).
• The following is a list of student research presented at conferences (reverse chronological order):
• Farrell, Meghan and Eric Wiener. 2007. Oral presentation: Impacts of tree seedling browsing by white-tailed deer on forest dynamics in the New Jersey and New York Highlands; *won the 2007 Eastern Colleges Science Conference Award for the Most Outstanding Platform Presentation in Ecology or Environmental Biology.
• Workman, Ilana, Farrell, Meghan and Eric Wiener. 2007. Poster presentation: Deer browsing on seedlings of 16 tree species in a northeastern hardwood forest.
• Ersalesi, Danielle, Manzella, Melissa, Allegro, Phil and Eric Wiener. 2007. Poster presentation: Tree ecology in rock outcrops of a mixed hardwood forest.
• Clark, Michael and Eric Wiener. 2006. Oral presentation: The impacts of a gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) outbreak on tree species composition in a northern hardwood forest.
• Osborne, Jared, Konarski, Kevin and Eric Wiener. 2006. Poster presentation: Response of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and pignut hickory (Carya glabra) saplings to canopy gaps in a hardwood forest.
• Rusher, John, Mary Lazarides and Eric Wiener. 2006. Poster presentation. Comparative study of seed predation among three synchronously masting oak species.
• Clark, Michael, Penn, Scott and Eric Wiener. 2005. Poster presentation: Projected forest dynamics following a gypsy moth outbreak; *won the 2005 Eastern Colleges Science Conference Award for the Most Outstanding Poster in Ecology or Environmental Science.
• Rockermann, Peter, Chirico, Lisamarie, Bozzolasco, Alejandra and Eric Wiener. 2005. Poster presentation: Seed dispersal mechanisms and patterns of tree seedling colonization of canopy gaps in a temperate forest.
• Heinrich, Michael, Myers, Veronica and Eric Wiener. 2004. Poster presentation: Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) anthracnose in three different habitats within a northern hardwood forest.
• Stark, Jeanne, Behrens, Heather and Eric Wiener. 2004. Poster presentation: Trail effects on shrub density and tree seedling and sapling diversity and at the Ramapo Valley County Reservation.
• Sitnik, Katie, Henderson, Brian, Kensicki, Korinne and Eric Wiener. 2003. Poster presentation: Twig growth of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) saplings in dry and moist habitats at the Ramapo Valley County Reservation.