Melina Schopler

Ph.D. candidate, Plant Biology Graduate Program (2021-present)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (NSF-GRF)

co-advised by Elsa Youngsteadt (NCSU Applied Ecology)

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Melina comes to the DICE Lab with expertise in population biology and intraspecific interactions. For her dissertation research, she’s expanding this demographic lens to the community scale to understand how climate change will reshuffle pollination networks and plant fitness. In tandem with her science, Melina has cultivated a deep interest in art and is exploring how cross-over between these traditionally separated disciplines can help us better understand our world.

Selected publications

(previously published as Melina Keighron)

  • Schopler, M., Simha, A., Dalton, R.M., Wilson, E.M., Redick, E., Youngsteadt, E., Petry, W.K. (preprint). Spring ephemeral Erythronium umbilicatum may not be vulnerable to phenological mismatch with overstory trees. [preprint] [data]

  • Youngsteadt, E., Keighron, M.C. (2023) Urban pollination ecology. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 54: 21-42. [doi]

  • Louthan, A.M., Keighron, M., Kiekebusch, E., Cayton, H., Terando, A., Morris, W.F. (2022) Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap. Ecological Monographs, 92: e1528. [doi]