Phone: 919-962-6934
Fax: 919-962-6930

Email: mboyle at unc.edu

Office: 409 Coker Hall

Mailing Address:
Department of Biology, CB#3280, Coker Halll
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280

Research Interests:

1. Plant community dynamics across temporal gradients

2. Ecosystem classification within disturbed landscapes

3. GIS modeling of landscape ecosystem types

4. Multivariate statistical modeling of forest landscape change

Boyle, M.F., Hedden, R.L, and Waldrop, T.A. Impact of prescribed fire and thinning on host resistance to the southern pine beetle. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth Biennial Silvicultural Research Conference, Biloxi, MS. February 24-28, 2003 (submitted May 2003).

Shelburne, V.B., Boyle, M.F., Lione, D.J., and Waldrop, T.A. Changes to soils and forest floor as a consequence of fuel reduction treatments in Piedmont forest ecosystems. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth Biennial Silvicultural Research Conference, Biloxi, MS. February 24-28, 2003 (submitted May 2003).

Boyle, M.F. Forestry in the 21st Century at Clemson University. For: The South Carolina Commissioner’s School for Agriculture, June 2005.