Research Ecologist
Ecosystem Health and Restoration, Public Lands Ecology Section, Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station

Education:
B.A., (Biology), Wesleyan University, 1976
Ph.D., (Zoology), The University of Texas-Austin, 1984
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California-Berkeley, 1990

Research Interests:
Oak savanna restoration, avian ecology and foraging behavior, butterfly ecology, herpetofauna ecology, endangered species biology, carcinogenesis

Mailing Address:
USGS Great Lakes Science Center
Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station
1100 North Mineral Springs Road
Porter, IN 46304

E-mail: rgrundel@usgs.gov

Phone: (219) 926-8336, ext. 422

Fax: (219) 929-5792

Leicht-Young, Stacey A., Noel B. Pavlovic, Ralph Grundel, and Krystalynn J. Frohnapple. 2009. A comparison of seed banks across a sand dune successional gradient at Lake Michigan Dunes (Indiana, USA). Plant Ecology 202(2): 299-308.
Contribution # 1484 [Abstract]

Pavlovic, Noel B. and Grundel, Ralph. 2009. Reintroduction of wild lupine (Lupinus perennis L.) depends on variation in canopy, vegetation, and litter cover. Restoration Ecology 17(6): 807-817.
Contribution # 1329 [Abstract]

Grundel, Ralph and Noel B. Pavlovic. 2008. Using conservation value to assess land restoration and management alternatives across a degraded oak savanna landscape. Journal of Applied Ecology 45(1): 315-324.
Contribution # 1440 [Abstract]

Pavlovic, Noel B., Stacey A. Leicht-Young, Krystalynn J. Frohnapple, and Ralph Grundel. 2008. Effect of removal of Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket) on species cover of forest understory vegetation in NW Indiana. American Midland Naturalist 161(1): 165-176.
Contribution # 1490 [Abstract]

Grundel, Ralph and Noel B. Pavlovic. 2007. Response of bird species densities to habitat structure and fire history along a midwestern open-forest gradient. Condor 109(4): 734-749.
Contribution # 1435 [Abstract]

Grundel, Ralph and Noel B. Pavlovic. 2007. Resource availability, matrix quality, microclimate, and spatial pattern as predictors of patch use by the Karner blue butterfly. Biological Conservation 135(1): 135-144.
Contribution # 1392 [Abstract]

Grundel, Ralph and Noel B. Pavlovic. 2007. Distinctiveness, use, and value of midwestern oak savannas and woodlands as avian habitats. Auk 124(3): 969–985.
Contribution # 1380 [Abstract] [PDF 939 KB]

Leicht-Young, Stacey A., Noel B. Pavlovic, Ralph Grundel, and Krystalynn J. Frohnapple. Distinguishing native (Celastrus scandens L.) and invasive (C. orbiculatus Thunb.) bittersweet species using morphological characteristics. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 134(4): 441-450.
Contribution # 1450 [Abstract]

Leicht-Young, Stacey. A., Noel B. Pavlovic, Ralph Grundel and Krystalynn J. Frohnapple. 2007. Distinguishing native (Celastrus scandens) and invasive (C. orbiculatus) bittersweet species using morphological characteristics. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 134(4): 441-450.
Contribution # 1450 [Abstract]

Pavlovic, Noel B., Ralph Grundel, and William Sluis. 2006. Groundlayer vegetation gradients across oak woodland canopy gaps. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 133(2): 225-239.
Contribution # 1334 [Abstract]