{"id":4908,"date":"2026-01-08T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:53:51","slug":"biology-faculty-publish-new-research-on-coastal-vegetation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2026\/01\/08\/biology-faculty-publish-new-research-on-coastal-vegetation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology faculty publish new research on coastal vegetation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anne Axel, Dr. Kyle Palmquist, and Dr. Pamela Puppo from the Department of Biological Sciences have published a new research article in the journal <em>Vegetation Classification and Survey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, \u201cCharacterizing and mapping coastal vegetation on a sea island in the southeastern USA,\u201d presents advanced ecological mapping and vegetation classification focused on Parris Island, South Carolina. The study represents an important step forward in long term ecological monitoring and the conservation of coastal plant communities.<\/p>\n<p>The research was led by former master\u2019s student Cody Goodson and co-authored by current master\u2019s student Zak Bartholomew, along with Drs. Axel, Palmquist, and Puppo. The publication highlights the College of Science\u2019s strong commitment to student-led research and collaborative scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>The full open-access article is available at the <a href=\"https:\/\/vcs.pensoft.net\/article\/157787\/list\/9\/\">journal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anne Axel, Dr. Kyle Palmquist, and Dr. Pamela Puppo from the Department of Biological Sciences have published a new research article in the journal Vegetation Classification and Survey. The paper, \u201cCharacterizing and mapping coastal vegetation on a sea island in the southeastern USA,\u201d presents advanced ecological mapping and vegetation classification focused on Parris Island,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":4909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,75,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-research","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/biology-costal-vegitation-axel-palmquist-puppo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4910,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions\/4910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}