invasive species

Mark Bierner received his B.A. in Botany and Ph.D. in Systematic Botany from the University of Texas at Austin. Courses he has taught include Introductory Biology, Introductory Botany, Plants and Our World, Native Plants, Local Flora, Cell Biology, Evolution and Genetics, Genetics, Systematic Botany, Biochemical Systematics, and Special Topics in Systematics. He also introduced a new course at The University of Texas entitled Plants, Environment, and Human Affairs, which he taught at the main campus in Austin and also in Sevilla, Spain.

You might already know that buffelgrass is an invasive species, originally introduced in Arizona for cattle. You might have heard about recent spraying and pulling of buffelgrass to try to slow its spread and diminish the threat it poses to the ecosystems of the Sonoran Desert.