Conservation Ecologist / Team Leader

11935 Old Cutler Road
Miami, FL 33156 USA
Phone 305/667-1651, ext. 3416
Fax 305/665-8032
jmaschinski@fairchildgarden.org

Education:

Northern Arizona University, Ph.D., Botany, 1989
University of Arizona, M.Ed., Reading Education, 1981
University of Arizona, B.S., Secondary Education, Biology, 1978

Roles at Center for Tropical Plant Conservation

• Coordinates multifaceted South Florida Endangered and Threatened Flora Program
• Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with local and international agencies and individuals

Fields of Interest

• Rare plant biology and conservation ecology
• Restoration, reintroductions, plant demography, hybridization, herbivory, fragmentation, habitat destruction, timber harvest, fire, trampling
• Population viability modeling (PVA)
• Impacts of climate change on rare plant populations
• Impacts of human activities on rare plants and communities
• Management solutions for the conservation of rare species and their habitats

Current Research Projects

• Habitat restoration and its impacts on rare, native and exotic species in communities
• Plant demography and population viability modeling of endangered species (Linum carteri var. carteri, Ipomopsis sancti-spiritus and Purshia subintegra)
• Factors influencing success or failure of reintroductions of rare plants
• Threats of hybridization on rare species(Lantana depressa varieties and Purshia subintegra)

Recent Publications

Maschinski, J. and J. Duquesnel. In press.
Successful reintroductions of the endangered long-lived Sargent's cherry palm, Pseudophoenix sargentii, in the Florida Keys.
Biological Conservation

Maschinski, J. and S. J. Wright. In press.
Using Ecological Theory to Plan Restorations of the Endangered Beach Jacquemontia in Fragmented Habitats.
Journal for Nature Conservation.

Possley, J. and J. Maschinski. In press.
Competitive effects of the invasive grass Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C.E. Hubb. On native pine rockland vegetation.
Natural Areas Journal.

Roncal, J., J. Fisher, S. J. Wright, A. Frances, K. Griffin, J. Maschinski, and M. Fidelibus. In Press.
Propagation protocol for Jacquemontia reclinata House, an endangered species of South Florida.
Native Plants Journal.

Maschinski, J. 2006.
Implications of Population Dynamic and Metapopulation Theory for Restoration.
In Foundations of Restoration Ecology, D. Falk, M. Palmer, and J. Zedler (editors).
Island Press, Washington, DC.

Maschinski, J., J. E. Baggs, Quintana-Ascencio, P.F, and E.S. Menges. 2006.
Using PVA to examine effects of climate change on the population viability of an endangered limestone endemic shrub, Arizona cliffrose.
Conservation Biology 20:218-228.

Roncal, J., J. Fisher, M.Q.N. Fellows, K. Wendelberger, J. Maschinski, and M.W. Fidelibus. 2006.
Propagation protocol for the endangered crenulate lead plant, Amorpha herbacea Walter var. crenulata (Rydberg) Isely.
Native Plants 7:89-93.

Maschinski, J., J. Possley, M. Q.N. Fellows, C. Lane, A. Muir, K. Wendelberger, S. Wright, and H. Thornton.  2005.
Using Thinning as a Fire Surrogate to Improve Native Plant Diversity in a South Florida Pine Rockland Habitat.
Ecological Restoration 23:2.

Cariaga, K.A., C.E. Lewis, J. Maschinski, S.J. Wright, and J. Francisco-Ortega. 2005.
Patterns Of Genetic Diversity In The Critically Endangered Florida Key Endemic Consolea Corallicola Small (Cactaceae): Evidence From Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSRs) DNA Polymorphisms.
Caribbean Journal Of Botany 41:225-233.

Albrecht, W. D., J. Maschinski, A. Mracna, and S. Murray. 2005.
A Community Participatory Project to Restore a Native Grassland.
Natural Areas Journal 25:137-146.

Maschinski, J., J. E. Baggs, and C.F. Sacchi. 2004.
Seedling Recruitment and Survival of an Endangered Limestone Endemic in its Natural Habitat and Experimental Reintroduction Sites.
American Journal of Botany 91: 689-698.

Beier, P. and J. Maschinski. 2003.
Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species.
in P. Friederici and Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University (eds.)
Ecological Restoration of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests.
Island Press, Washington, DC.

Maschinski, J. 2001.
Impacts of ungulate herbivores on a rare willow at the southern edge of its range.
Biological Conservation 101(1):119-130.