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Walter F. Bien

Research Professor
Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Drexel University
United States of America

Professor Environmental Sciences
Biography

Walter F. Bien, PhD is research professor and Director of the Laboratory of Pinelands Research.  He is Principal Investigator at the Warren Grove Gunnery Range (WGR), Burlington County, New Jersey where his research focuses on the effect of anthropogenic disturbance on the Pine Barrens ecosystem. Current research projects at WGR include rare plant community analysis, fire management assessment,  fire effects on disturbance-dependent species, spatial ecology of the northern pine snake, lepidoptera community analysis, seed banking and dispersal mechanisms in Rhynchospora knieskernii,  pollination ecology in Gentiana autumnalis.

Research Intrest

Community ecology (New Jersey Pine Barrens), conservation biology, natural resource management, and restoration ecology.

List of Publications
Sheridan, C.M., J.R. Spotila, W. Roosenburg, W.F. Bien and H.W. Avery 2010. Inter-population variation of multiple paternity in the diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin. Molecular Ecology. 19: 5497–5510.
Smith, R.M., Bien, W.F., Spotila, J.R. and Avery, H.W. 2008. Coexistence of rattlesnakes and military operations: occurrence and spatial ecology of the timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) on the Warren Grove Gunnery Range in the Pinelands of New Jersey. In: The Biology of the Rattlesnake. W. Hayes, K. Beaman, M. Caldwell and S. Bush (eds.), Loma Linda University Press, Loma Linda, CA pp. 606.
Bien, W.F., Spotila, J.R., and T. Gordon 2009. Distribution trends of rare plants at the Warren Grove Gunnery Range. Bartonia 64:1-18
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