Grasslands Research Program

SGI research program staff. Our expertise spans conservation, history, mapping, biology, botany, and ecology.

about

The Southeastern Grasslands Institute has many expert staff and affiliates who collaborate on grassland-related research across multiple disciplines. Check out a list of peer-reviewed and other publications below.

Click here for a list of books and book chapters authored or co-authored by SGI researchers.
Collaborative research is key to SGI’s success. Please click here to learn more.
Click here for a list of current and past SGI researchers and graduate scholars with an SGI committee member.
Click here for a list of frameworks, guidelines, and factsheets that SGI has contributed to.
Click here for a list of research highlights from SGI staff and affiliate researchers.
Click here for a list of publications in popular media authored by SGI staff.
Click here to see SGI and affiliate researchers’ poster presentations.

Expertise

SGI’s Grasslands Research Program specializes in grassland ecology, species descriptions, grassland classifications, grassland quality assessment, and grassland mapping. Our collaborating research institutions and partners bring additional areas of expertise to our work to understand and protect grassland biodiversity. They include experts on grassland birds, insects, and ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and water quality enhancement, that southeastern grasslands provide. Photo Crested Fringed Orchid (*Platanthera cristata*). PC: Brittney Georgic.

Please contact our Chief Conservation Officer Theo Witsell with any questions regarding SGI’s research program.

Major projects

The work of the Southeastern Grasslands Institute spans SGI’s focal region. Please click here to view our main research projects and collaborators at this time.

Ways to support

The Southeastern Grasslands Institute grassland research program team benefits from community support in many ways. Please click here to learn about ways to support our important research program.

SGI Research Photo Gallery

See below for a photo gallery of SGI's research work. Click an image to start the viewer and place your cursor over (or tap) an image to see the caption.