Beverly Collins Editor & Author

Cathryn (Katie) H. Greenberg is a Research Ecologist with the Upland Hardwood Ecology and Management Research Work Unit, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest in Asheville NC. Her research focuses on developing information and tools that are useful to forest managers and planners. Research areas include effects of disturbances such as prescribed fire, wildfire, wind blowdowns, and timber harvests, on wildlife communities, native fleshy fruit and acorn production, and forest structure in the southern Appalachians. She has also studied the ecology of coastal plain forests and wetlands, including long-term monitoring of amphibian and reptile populations in relation to wetland hydrology and climate. 

​Beverly Collins is a professor of plant ecology at Western Carolina University. She and her students study the effects of natural and human-caused disturbances, invasive species, and the changing climate on southern Appalachian ecosystems. Through her career she has also studied the ecology and dynamics of southeastern coastal plain and piedmont forests in South Carolina, Georgia, and western Tennessee.