E-mail this pageBiological Sciences Faculty - Dr. Christopher Martine
Assistant Professor
As a botanist, I find something fascinating at nearly every turn in my daily life. The world is green and I sure am glad for that. My research interests are based first and foremost in a love for natural history. This broad area of study has underlain my recent investigations and publications, including my work on the evolution of reproductive systems in wild eggplants (Solanum) in northwestern Australia, a long-term survey of post-fire demography in a population of endangered plants (Corema conradii, broom crowberry) in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, and a model-based evaluation of invasive woody plants in New England. Current projects in my lab include determining the roles played by pollen-collecting bees and fruit-eating marsupials in establishing and maintaining small populations of rare "bush tomatoes" (Solanum) in the Australian Outback. Students interested in this work or (especially) in conducting studies on the local flora should feel free to e-mail me. |
Education
- Ph.D. Botany, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2006
- M.S. Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2001
- B.S. Natural Resource Management, Cook College - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1996
Teaching Areas
- BIO 102 - General Biology II
- BIO 205 - Plant and Fungal Biology
- BIO 304L - Ecology
- BIO 310 - Plant Diversity and Evolution
- BIO 330 - Natural History Collections Management
- BIO 380 - Communicating Biology
- BIO 387 - Topics in Biology
College Service
- Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Claude J. Clarke Learning Center
- Curator, SUNY Plattsburgh Herbarium and Conservatory Greenhouse
Research Areas
- Systematics, taxonomy and reproductive biology of the genus Solanum
- Using phylogenetic methods to trace the evolution of uncommon breeding systems in plants (e.g. dioecy, andromonoecy, androdioecy)
- Seedling recruitment and reproduction in pine barrens communities
- Invasive plant biology
- Interactions between plants and their pollinators/seed dispersers
- Floristic projects such as field guides, floras and keys
Recent Publications
- Books
- Martine, C.T., R.A. Figley and A. Hansens. 2007. Trees of New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic States. Sixth Edition. New Jersey Forest Service, NJDEP: Jackson, NJ.
- Martine, C.T. and R.A. Figley. 2007. Shrubs and Vines of New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic States. Second Edition. New Jersey Forest Service, NJDEP: Jackson, NJ.
- Journal Articles
- Martine, C.T. and G.J. Anderson. 2007. Dioecy, pollination, and seed dispersal in Australian spiny Solanum. VIth International Solanaceae Conference: Acta Horticulturae 745: 269-283.
- Herron, P., C.T. Martine, A. Latimer, and S. Leicht. 2007. Invasive plants and their ecological strategies: a model-based approach to prediction and explanation of woody plant invasion in New England. Diversity and Distributions 13: 633-644.
- Brennan, K., C.T. Martine, and D.E. Symon. 2006. Solanum sejunctum: A new dioecious species from Kakadu, Northern Territory. The Beagle, records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 22: 1-7.
- Anderson, G.J., C.T. Martine, J. Prohens, and F. Nuez. 2006. Solanum perlongistylum and S. catilliflorum, new endemic Peruvian species of Solanum, section Basarthrum, are close relatives of the domesticated pepino. Novon 16: 161-167.
- Martine, C.T., D. Lubertazzi, and A. DuBrul. 2005. The biology of Corema conradii: natural history, reproduction, and observations of a post-fire seedling recruitment. Northeastern Naturalist 12: 267-286.
- Martine, C.T., S. Leicht-Young, A. Latimer and P. Herron. (Accepted) Fifteen woody plants with potential for invasiveness in New England. Rhodora 110.
- Published abstracts
- Martine, Christopher T., Herron, Patrick M., Latimer, Andrew M., Leicht-Young, Stacey A. Invasive plants and their ecological strategies: a model-based approach to prediction and explanation of woody plant invasion in New England. Botany and Plant Biology 2007 Joint Congress, Chicago, July 7-12.
- Bohs, Lynn, Martine, Christopher T., Stern, Stephen, Myers, Nicole. Phylogeny of the Old World clade of the spiny solanums (Solanum subg. Leptostemonum). Botany and Plant Biology 2007 Joint Congress, Chicago, July 7-12.
Contact Chrisopher Martine
Office: Beaumont Hall 401A
Phone: (518) 564-5277
E-mail: martinct@plattsburgh.edu