RESUME: JOHN EDWIN EBINGER Current Position: Emeritus Professor of Botany, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920. Home Address: 45 Heather Drive, Charleston, IL 61920. Birth Date & Place: 2 June 1933, Cincinnati, OH. Marital Status: Married - 4 children. Military Service: United States Air Force, Captain. 1955-1958. Education: Undergraduate: Miami University, Oxford, OH. 1951-1955. B.A. degree with major in Botany. Graduate: Yale University, New Haven, CT. M.S. 1958-1959. Ph.D. 1959-1961. Teaching Experience: Assistant Professor of Botany, Eastern Illinois University; 1963-1968; Associate Professor of Botany, 1969-1972; Professor of Botany, 1973-1995; Emeritus Professor of Botany, 1995 to present. Honors: Society of Sigma Xi, Phi Sigma, Beta Beta Beta. Bruce Fink Scholarship in Botany, Miami University. 1953-1955. Sheffield Fellowship in Botany, Yale University. 1961. Faculty Merit Award, Eastern Illinois University. 1978. Member, Illinois Nature Preserve Commission, 1976-1978. Faculty Excellence Award, Eastern Illinois University. 1987. Fellow, Illinois State Academy of Science. 1988. Faculty Excellence Award, Eastern Illinois University. 1990. Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Award, Eastern Illinois University. 1990. Society Memberships: New England Botanical Club, American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Southern Appalachian Botanical Club, Botanical Society of America, Illinois State Academy of Science, Indiana Academy of Science, Nature Conservancy, Natural Areas Association, Northern Nut Growers Association, Society of Sigma Xi, Natural Land Institute Research Experience: Mexico, studies of the genus Acacia, Fall 1985, Winter 1990, Spring 1991. Curator, Stover Herbarium, Eastern Illinois University. 1963- 1995. Consulting: WAPORA, Inc., Washington D.C., analysis of terrestrial systems. 1975 to present. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, consultant for the IllinoisNatural Area Inventory. 1973-1976. Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board, consultant on endangered and threatened plant species. 1980 to present. Illinois Department of Transportation, consultant on terrestrial systems and endangered plant species. 1980-1992. Illinois Department of Natural Resources, consultant on endangered and threatened plant species. 1975 to present. 3D/ESI, Cincinnati, OH, taxonomy of vascular plants and analysis of terrestrial systems. 1990 to present. Director of Master Degrees: More than 35 completed during the past 34 years,, Wl-1 in plant taxonomy and vegetation analysis. Other Activities: Visiting Professor, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Studying the taxonomy, ecology, and cyanogenesis of the genus Acacia, 1985 to present. Referee for the following journals: Castanea, Transaction of the Illinois State Academy of Science, American Midland Naturalist, Natural Areas Journal. Member, Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board, 1988 to present. Affiliate appointment, Illinois Natural History Survey Center for Biodiversity, 1990 to present. Adjunct Graduate Faculty Status, Southern Illinois University. 1991 to present. Publications: Over 130, those since 1990 are listed below. Acacia constricts (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) and related species from the Southwestern U. S. and Mexico. Amer. Jour. Bot. 77:305-315. 1990. (with H. Clarke and D. Seigler) Cyanogenesis in the lichen genus Dermatocarpon. Castanea 55:207-210. 1990. (with D. Bergman) A study of four river birch stands in Mason and Cass Counties, Illinois. Trans. Ill. St. Acad. Sci. 83(3 & 4):149-155. 1990. (with C. Uhlarich & W. McClain) Woody understory of Baber Woods, Edgar County, Illinois. Erigenia 11:18-21. 1991. (with J. Landes) Vegetation of Wolf Creek State Park, Shelby County, Illinois. Erigenia 11:22-26. 1991. (with S. Newell & L. Horton) Forest succession in the prairie peninsula of Illinois. Ill. Nat. Hist. Sur. Bull. 34:375-381. 1991. (with W. McClain) Understory survey at the Rocky Branch Nature Preserve, Clark County, Illinois. Trans. Ill. St. Acad. Sci. 84:12-19. 1991. (with K. Aikman) Woody vegetation survey of Bishop's Woods, a sand forest in Mason County, Illinois. Trans. Ill. St. Acad. Sci. 84:20- 27. 1991. (with S. Jenkins & W. McClain) Naturalized Amur maple (Acer ginnala Maxim.) in Illinois. Nat. Areas Jour. 11:170-171. 1991. (with W. McClain) Proceedings of the oak woods management workshop. Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL. 1991. (editor with G. Burger and G. Wilhelm) Calycanthus floridus (Calycanthaceae) in Illinois. Trans. Ill. St. Acad. Sci. 85:17-18. 1992. (with W. McClain, K. Anderson, and E. Anderson) Effects of prescribed burns on the woody vegetation of a dry sand savanna, Hooper Branch Nature Preserve, Iroquois County, Illinois. Trans. Ill. St. Acad. Sci. 85:105-111. 1992. (with K. Johnson) Woody vegetation structure of a Post Oak Flatwoods in Illinois. Castanea 57:196-201. 1992. (with D. Coates and K. Lyman) Ant-acacia hybrids of Mexico and Central America. Southwestern Naturalist 37:408-414. 1992. (with D. Seigler) Changes in the woody vegetation of a Bur Oak savanna L@itticLic in Central Illinois. Nat. Areas Jour. 13:108-114. 1993. (with W. McClain, M. Jenkins and S. Jenkins) Woody vegetation survey of Barkhausen Woods, a closed canopy sand forest in Mason County, Illinois. Erigenia 12:1-6. 1992. (with D. Coates and S. Jenkins) Woody vegetation survey of Sullivan Woods, Moultrie County, Illinois. Erigenia 12:7-12. 1992. (with S. Baumgartner, S. Jenkins and M. Jenkins) Woody plants of East Central Illinois. Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois. 105pp. Alien and native woody species invasion of abandoned crop land and reestablished tallgrass prairie in East-central Illinois. Trans. Ill. St. Acad. Sci. 86:111-118. 1993. (with U. Zimmerman and K. Diekroeger) False Hellebore (Veratrum woodii, Liliaceae) populations in Illinois. Trans. Ill ' St. Acad. Sci. 86:85-91. 1993. Proceedings of the North American Conference on Savannas and Barrens: living in the edge. Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. pages ix+407. 1994. (editor with J. Fralish, R. Anderson, and R. Szafoni) Vegetation of some Post Oak Barrens in Saline County,, Illinois. (with R. Buhrmester and W. McClain) in J. Fralish, R. Anderson, J. Ebinger & R. Szafoni eds. Proceedings of the North American Conference on Savannas and Barrens: living in the edge. Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. pages 335-339. 1994. A restoration plan for mesic deep soil savannas. (with M. Hruska) in J. Fralish, R. Anderson, J. Ebinger & R. Szafoni eds. Proceedings of the North American Conference on Savannas and Barrens: living in the edge. Illinois State University,.Normal, Illinois. pages 259-263. 1994. Taxonomic revision of the ant-acacias (Fabaceae, Mimosoideae, Acacia, section Gummiferae) of the New World. Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 82:117-138. 1995. (with D. Seigler) Monitoring a savanna restoration in east-central Illinois. Trans. Ill. St. Acad. Sci. 88:109-117. 1995. (with M. Hruska) Naturalized Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl (Oleaceae) in Illinois. Trans. Ill. St. Acad. Sci. 88:119-121. 1995. (with W. McClain) The status of Aster schreberi Nees (Schreber's aster) in Illinois. Erigenia 13:15-17. 1995. Effects of different fire regimes on the ground layer vegetation of a dry sand savanna, Hooper Branch Nature Preserve, Iroquois County, Illinois. Erigeria 13:37-40. 1995. (with K. Johnson) Woody vegetation survey of Bois du Sangamon Nature Preserve, and upland forest in Macon County, Illinois. Erigenia 13:53-56. 1995. (with D. Haug) Flowering in false hellebore (Veratrum woodii, Liliaceae) populations in east-central Illinois. Castanea 61:46-48. 1996. Acer ginnala (Amur Maple), Euonymus alatus (Winged Wahoo, Burning Bush) in J. M. Randall and J. Marinelli eds. Invasive Plants, weeds of the global garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Inc., Brooklyn, New York. pages 25, 55. 1996. Variation of cyanogenesis in some plant species of the Midwestern United States. Bioch. Syst. Ecol. 24:637-645. 1996. (with K. Aikman, D. Bergman, and D. Seigler) More on the Dogwood Anthracnose problem in Illinois. Growing Trends. pages 13-15. June 1997. (with W. E. McClain and J. E. Schwegman) Chapter 1. Forest communities of the Midwestern United States. 1997. pages 3-23. in M. W. Schwartz (editor). Conservation in highly fragmentet-landscapes. Chapman & Hall, New York. Chapter 2. Laurels in the wild. 1997. pages 29-51 in R. A. Jaynes (author) Kalmia, mountain laurel and related species. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon. Chapter 12. Toxicity, medicinal uses, and allelopathy. 1997. pages 214-223 in R. A. Jaynes (author) Kalmia, mountain laurel and rel@ted species. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon. Flora of temporary sand ponds in Cass and Mason Counties, Illinois. Castanea 62:65-73. 1997. (with W. E. McClain and R. D. McClain) Vegetation survey of Elkhart Woods, Logan County, Illinois. Castanea 62:74-81. 1997. (with D. O'Connell, S. Turner, F. Catchpole, and W. McClain) Barrens and the forest-prairie interface in presettlement Crawford County, Illinois. Castanea 62:260-267. 1997. (with B. Edgin) The Occurrence of slippery elm (Ulmus rubra Muhl.) root sprouts in forest understories in east-central Illinois. Trans. Ill. St. Acad. Sci. 91:13-17. 1998. (with R. Davis and R. Larimore) Notes on some woody plant species naturalized in Illinois. Erigenia 16:67-70. (with W. E. McClain) Anthracnose-caused mortality of flowering dogwood (Cornus florida L.) at the Dean Hills Nature Preserve, Fayette County, Illinois, USA. Nat. Areas Jour. 18:204-207. 1998. (with J. E. Schwegman, W. E. McClain and T. L. Esker)