CURRICULUM VITAE LES MEHRHOFF, Ph.D. George Safford Torrey Herbarium Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Box U-43 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-3043 Phone: (860) 486-5708 Fax: (860) 486-6364 E-mail: vasculum@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Les, on left, having fun before vine

B.S. 1972 Biology (cum laude) - New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire

M.S. 1976 Botany, Plant Taxonomy - University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

• Research Interests: Taxonomy within the genus Aristolochia L. (Aristolochiaceae)

Ph.D. 1996 Plant Ecology, Biogeography - University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

• Thesis: "A Phytogeographical Analysis of the Flora of Connecticut with Special
• Emphasis on those Species with Restricted Ranges"
• Thesis advisor: Antoni W. H. Damman
• Research Interests: Floristics, Biogeography, and Conservation of the Northeastern North American Flora

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Summer 1971; June 1972 - March 1973: Squam Lake Science Center, Holderness, New Hampshire

• Position: Lecturer/Naturalist
• Responsibilities: Lectures for public and school groups, interpretive labels for trails, botanical inventory of Center grounds, animal maintenance.

April 1973 - August 1973: Audubon Society of New Hampshire, Concord, New Hampshire

• Position: Resident Naturalist, dePierrefeu-Willard Pond Sanctuary, Antrim, NH
• Responsibilities: Establishment of a school nature program, interpretive walks, biotic inventory of Sanctuary, grounds maintenance.

Summer, 1975; Summer, 1976; Summer, 1977: Connecticut Geological & Natural History Survey, Natural Resources Center, Connecticut Dep't. of Environmental Protection, Hartford, Connecticut

• Position: Field Biologist
• Responsibilities: Endangered species research, botanical inventory, natural areas evaluation.

May 1978 - December 1995: Connecticut Geological & Natural History Survey, Natural Resources Center, Connecticut Dep't. of Environmental Protection, Hartford, Connecticut

• Position: Supervising Biologist
• Responsibilities: Coordination of a state-wide biological inventory with emphasis on the identification of rare and endangered species; natural areas identification, inventory, and management; biological publications of the CG&NHS; managerial responsibilities for the Natural Resources Center's Biological Program including the Connecticut Natural Diversity Data Base; direction of college interns and volunteers; liaison to the University of Connecticut's Dep't. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; liaison to the Connecticut State Museum on Natural History, liaison to Yale University's Peabody Museum.

January 1996 - September 2005: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

• Position: Curator of the George Safford Torrey Herbarium
• Responsibilities: Management of the 115,000 specimen herbarium including education, research, outreach programs, database development, workshops, and daily maintenance; initiation and continuance of a computerized data base of all specimens; finding and overseeing volunteers, student employees, and part-time collections staff; collection of specimens and research on the flora of Connecticut and New England; establishment of a "Friends of the Torrey Herbarium". Assist in design, planning, and equipping of new collection facility (completed 2004). Additional responsibility for the vertebrate collections including all aspects of their use and maintenance.

September 2001 - present: Invasive Plant Atlas of New England, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut (grant-supported job modification)

• Position: Director (Co-PI on funding grant)
• Responsibilities: The IPANE Project was conceived (by LJM) and created in order to establish a Rapid Assessment Network for New England and to assess the current status of invasive plants throughout the 6-state region; oversee all aspects of the project including full-time project administration, data gathering, storage, and applications, website design and maintenance, assisting in training for a network of volunteers, developing and using training manual and protocols for early detection and rapid assessment, educational efforts of associated programs and projects; introductory and advanced training workshop presentations, planning and facilitating regional and national symposia, assisting with the development of similar programs in other states and regions, assist with research, data analysis, and dissemination; outreach and education. Coordinate with 6 state governments, federal agencies (USDA, USGS, USFWS, USFS), and many non-governmental organizations (TNC, FGA, NAS).
• Current initiatives: Development of a national Early Detection Network (with R. Westbrooks - USGS); Creating and implementing a prototype "Localized Early Detection Network for White Mountain National Forest (with Chris Mattrick, USFS, and AMC); Creating a classification system for invasive plant species; Assisting in the development of the Invasive Plant Atlas of the Mid South (IPAMS) modeled after IPANE; Developing criteria and definitions for the evaluation of cultivated plants (in association with TNC and ANLA); Serving on planning committee for 2008 Natural Areas Association and CWMA focusing on early detection; Established and chairing a CT and New England Mile-a-minute Task Force; Orchestrating a county checklist of CT vascular plants; Reinvestigating the Spontaneous Flora of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston (Arboretum staff); Reviewing of Flora Novae Angliae (with Arthur Haines and NEWFS).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Flora of Connecticut and northeastern North America
• The distribution, status, and categorization of invasive exotics
• Conservation of the imperiled flora and critical habitats of New England
• Biogeography of the northeastern North American biota
• Dispersal biology of plants
• History of floristic botany in Northeastern North America and in particular the contributions of Merritt Lyndon Fernald.

TOUR LEADER

• Puerto Rico - 1978; 1981: New England College subtropical biology class
• Southern Florida and the Keys - 1982; 1985; 1986: University of Connecticut Natural History Club field trip
• Costa Rica - 1990: The Nature Conservancy; - 1993: The CT State Museum of Natural History

AWARDS

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Achievement Award to the New England Botanical
• Club's Endangered Species Committee for rare plant conservation efforts - 1979.
• The Nature Conservancy, Connecticut Chapter Certificate of Special Recognition - 1983.
• The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut Certificate of Appreciation - 1983.
• The Nature Conservancy, National Office Science Program, Ten Year Heritage Network Service Award - 1992.
• New England Wild Flower Society, Connecticut State Award- 1994.
• The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut Bronze Medal - 1997.

CURRENT AND RECENT GRANTS

• $30,000 (to John Silander) from the National Park Service
• $1000 from the Mad Gardeners of Connecticut
• $15,000 from the Horticultural Research Institute
• $15,000 from the Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association
• $8,000 National Park Service, John Silander and Les Mehrhoff
• $1,260,000 (48 months) from USDA-CSREES-IFAFS CoPI
• $30,000 from the State of Massachusetts, Office of the Sec'y of Environmental Affairs
• $11,000 from Berkshire Taconic Landscape Program of TNC
• $ 45,882 from USGS-NBII (with add-on)
• $ 460,000 (24 months) from USDA-CSREES-NRI CoPI

CONTRIBUTED AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS

• New England Environmental Conference, Tufts University, 21 APR 1979, "Rare and Endangered Species That Could Be Affected by the Proposed Diversion of Water from the Connecticut River"
• New England Botanical Club Symposium - Rare and Endangered Plant Species in New England, Harvard University, 5 MAY 1979, "Connecticut's Endangered Species Program"
• Massachusetts Natural Heritage Program's New England Natural Diversity Workshop, Mt. Holyoke College, 24 Apr 1982, "Changes in the Vegetation of the Marble Region of Northwestern Connecticut"
• Connecticut Natural Diversity Conference, Trinity College, 30 MAR 1985, "The Phytogeography of Connecticut's Rare Vascular Plants"
• Connecticut Natural Diversity Conference, Dinosaur State Park, 7 NOV 1986, "Algific Talus Slopes in Connecticut"
• New England Botanical Club Symposium - Plant Conservation: A Biogeographic Perspective, Harvard University, 7 MAY 1988, "Inventorying Connecticut's Vascular Plant Diversity"
• Massachusetts Audubon Society Symposium - New England's Grasslands, University of Massachusetts, "Thoughts on the Biogeography of Grasslands in New England"
• George Safford Torrey Herbarium Symposium - The Flora of Connecticut: Current Issues and Research, University of Connecticut, 30 MAR 1996, "The Vascular Flora of Connecticut: Status and Trends"
• Silvio O. Conte Refuge Rare Plant Symposium - Putney Community College, 15 OCT 1997, "Rare Vascular Plants of New England's Forested Uplands"
• Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Study - Invasive Species Symposium, 27 FEB 1999, "Observations on the non-native invasive flora of Connecticut: a 25 year perspective"
• Norwalk Watershed Association - Invasive Species in Connecticut Symposium, 17 MAR 1999, : Non-native invasive species in Connecticut: status and trends"
• New England Botanical Club Symposium - The Dynamics of the New England Flora, Harvard University, 10 APR 1999, "Immigration and expansion of the New England"
• University of Maine's Symposium - Creating Sustainable Landscapes: Plants to Plant, Plants to Avoid, Bar Harbor, Maine, 14 OCT 2000, Keynote Address, "Nonindigenous Invasive Plant Species in New England: Status and Trends"
• The Nature Conservancy Berkshire Taconic Landscape Program, Ecological Landscaping: Weeding Invasives, Restoring natives symposium, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 4 NOV 2000 "How is 'Invasiveness' determined?"
• Northeast Weed Science Society, Invasives Session, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 4 JAN 2001, "What makes a plant invasive?"
• Ecological Landscaping Association Annual Meeting, Boxborough, Massachusetts, 15 FEB 2001, Keynote Presentation "Invasive Plants in a Changing Landscape"
• New England Wildflower Society's Invasive Plants of Cape Cod Conference, Barnstable, Massachusetts, 29 APR 2001, Keynote presentation " Invasive Plants of Cape Cod: Issues and Concerns"
• New England Grows, Boston, Massachusetts, 8 FEB 2001"Invasive Plants: What's all the fuss?"
• Mid Atlantic Exotic Pest Plant Council meeting Keynote presentation , Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 15 AUG 2001 "Lists, Criteria, and being proactive with potentially invasive species"
• Mid Atlantic Exotic Pest Plant Council meeting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 August 2003, "The IPANE Project database"
• New England Invasive Plant Summit, Invasive Plant Atlas of New England, Framingham, Massachusetts, 19 SEP 2003, "Stinking Willie in New England - A test case for developing rapid assessment tools for new invasive plants in the United States"
• Invasive Plants in Natural and Managed Systems/7th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Invasive Plant Invasions, Information and Data Sharing Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2 NOV 2003, "The IPANE project: The Invasive Plant Atlas of New England"
• Invasive Plants in Natural and Managed Systems/7th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Invasive Plant Invasions, Early Detection, Rapid Assessment and Rapid Response Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 4 NOV 2003, "A regional approach to rapid assessment of new incursions of potentially invasive plant species"
• Northeast Weed Science Society, Japanese stilt-grass Symposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 5 JAN2004, "Distribution of Japanese Stilt-grass, Concerns, and Potential Impacts in New England"
• Beijing International Symposium on Biological Invasions, Beijing, China, 10 JUN 2004, "The Invasive Plant Atlas of New England: A regional approach to rapid assessment of potentially invasive plants"
• Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group Symposium, Storrs, CT, 7 OCT 2004, "IPANE's early detection network for New England"
• U.S. Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring Network meeting, Miami, FL 26 JAN 2005, "The IPANE Project: New England's Early Detection Network"
• IPANE Early Detection Meeting, Natick, MA, 23 MAR 2005, "The IPANE Project: An Early Detection Network for New England"
• Mid Atlantic Exotic Pest Plant Council meeting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 August 2005, "The IPANE Program: New England's Early Detection Network"
• Native American Fish & Wildlife Society, Northeast Section annual meeting, Charlestown, RI, 13 SEP 2005, "The IPANE Program: New England's Early Detection Network"
• Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve Conference, Bear Mountain, New York, 27 August, 2005, "Mile-a-minute (Polygonum perfoliatum L.: Biology and Identification"
• New York Invasive Plant Council meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 4 OCT 2005 "The IPANE Program: New England's Early Detection Network"
• Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 6 OCT 2005."Landscapes under siege: Invasive Plants in Connecticut USGS National Biodiversity Information Infrastucture All Nodes meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 25 OCT 2005, "The IPANE Program: New England's Multifaceted Early Detection Network"
• Rutgers University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar, New Brunswick, NJ, 9 MAR 2006, "The IPANE Project: The Synergism of Science and Public Involvement"
• USGS Scientific Information Management Workshop, Reston, VA, 21 MAR 2006, "The IPANE Project: The Synergism of Science and Public Involvement"
• Natural Resource Extension Professionals Conference, Park City, UT, 16 MAY 2006, "IPANE's volunteer-powered Early Detection Network"
• Meeting the Challenge: Invasive Plants in PNW Ecosystems Symposium, University of Washington Botanic Garden, Seattle, WA, 19 SEP 2006, "The IPANE Program: New England's Multifaceted Early Detection Network"
• Maine Extension Conference on Invasive Plants, Portland, ME, 7 DEC 2006, "The Science Behind Invasive Plant Lists"
• New York State Invasive Plant Council Conference, Albany, NY, 7 & 8 February 2007, "Plants in New England to Watch For in New York", "Learn from Each Other: Personal Accounts from New England", and "Recruiting, Training, and Retaining Volunteers for Invasive Plant Survey Work"
• University of Connecticut Natural Resources Conference, Storrs, CT, 9 MAR 2007, "A 30 Year Perspective on the Non-native Invasive Flora of CT"
• Pennsylvania Environmental Issues Keynote, King's Gap State Park, Shippensburg, PA, 14 MAR 2007, "Lessons Learned from IPANE: New England's Multifaceted Early Detection Program"
• Rhode Island Natural History Survey's Annual Symposium, Narragansett, RI, 22 MAR 2007, "IPANE: Enhancing Invasive Plant Early Detection Capabilities for Rhode Island"
• CT Forestry and Parks Training Session Introductory meeting, Franklin, CT, 27 MAR 2007, "Non-native Invasive Plants: A Growing Concern for the Connecticut Landscape"
• Josselyn Botanical Society Winter Meeting: Invasive Plants in Maine, Lewiston, ME, 31MAR 2007, "What's All the Fuss About Invasive Species"
• White Mountain National Forest Localized Early Detection Kick-off Meeting, Crawford Notch, NH, 19 APR 2007, "Early Detection Plants (for the White Mountains)"
• Beach Vitex Task Force Meeting, Southport, NC, 11 JUL 2007, "IPANE: New England's Multifaceted Early Detection Program"
• Josselyn Botanical Society Summer Meeting Workshop, Biddeford, ME, 17 JUL 2007, "Invasive Plant Early Detection in Maine"
• Environment Canada Atlantic Provinces Invasive Plant meeting, Truro, Nova Scotia, 27 SEP 2007, " The IPANE Program: New England's Multifaceted Early Detection Network"
• National Invasive Species Council's Advisory Committee meeting, Washington, DC, 2 OCT 2007, "The Invasive Plant Atlas of New England"

IPANE ADVANCED TRAINING WORKSHOPS

• Invasive Aquatic Vascular Plants, Smith College, Northampton, MA - 2004
• Invasive Herbaceous Plants, CF&P, Middletown, CT - 2004
• Invasive Grasses of New England, Pequotsepos Nature Ctr., Stonington, CT - 2005
• Southern New England Early Detection Species, RI Audubon, Smithfield, RI - 2005
• New England Early Detection Species, NEWFS, Framingham, MA - 2005
• Honeysuckles, Privets, and other invasive shrubs, NEWFS, Framingham, MA - 2006
• Invasive Aquatic Vascular Plants, UCONN, Storrs, CT - 2006
• Woody Early Detection species for northern New England, Marsh, Billings, Rockefeller Nat'l. Historic Park, Woodstock, VT - 2007
• Invasive Grasses and graminoids, Ninigret Nat'l. Wildlife Refuge, Charlestown, RI - 2007

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & ORGANIZATIONS

• Connecticut Botanical Society
• Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine
• Long Island Botanical Society
• New England Botanical Club
• New England Wild Flower Society
• New York Flora Association
• Philadelphia Botanical Society
• Torrey Botanical Club

COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION

• Arnold Arboretum (Harvard University): Curatorial Affiliate 2007 - present
• Connecticut Biodiversity Forum: Organizer; 1995 - 1998
• Connecticut Botanical Society: Councilor-at-Large 1979 -1984, 1990 - present; Vice President 1984 - 1990; Conservation Committee 1979 - present; Curator of the Society Herbarium: 1988 - 1996
• Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group: Organizer; Co-chair 1996 - 2002; Steering Committee 2002 - present
• Connecticut Invasive Plants Council: Connecticut Senate statutory appointment 2003 - present
• Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection: Natural Areas Advisory
• Committee 1980 - 1995, Gubernatorial appointment 1997 - present; Plant Advisory Committee 1992 - present
• Connecticut State Museum of Natural History Board of Directors: 1983 - 1999
• Josselyn Botanical Society: Centennial Committee 1990 - 1995; Director-at-large 1995 - present
• Massachusetts Invasive Plant Advisory Committee: 1998 - present
• Natural Areas Association: 2008 Invasive Species Conference planning committee 2007 - present
• Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species Panel member 2001 - present
• New England Botanical Club: Councilor 1984 - 1987, 1994 - 1996; Symposium Committee Chair 1986 -1988; Symposium Committee 1990-1992; Centennial Committee Chair 1992 - 1996; Rhodora Centennial Committee Chair 1996 - present; Vice President 1990 - 1992; President: 1992 - 1994; Librarian: 1998 - 2003; Fernald Award Chair: 2002 - 2005
• New England Invasive Plant Group: Co-facilitator 1999 - 2005; Member - 2005 - present
• New England Plant Conservation Program: Regional Advisory Committee 1991 - present; Connecticut Task Force Chair 1991 - 2003; Connecticut Task Force 2003 - present; Listing Committee Chair 1991 - 2001
• New England Wild Flower Society, Flora Novae Angliae steering Committee 2005 - present
• New York Flora Association: Councilor 1989 - 1998
• Northeastern Naturalist: Editorial Board 1996 - 2001
• The Flora of North America Project, Regional Reviewer 1996 - present
• The Nature Conservancy, Connecticut Chapter, Science and Stewardship Committee: 1978 - 2001
• University of Connecticut, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Natural History Club advisor 1982- 1987; Center for Conservation and Biodiversity Governing Board 1992 - present; seminar committee 1997-1998
• University of Connecticut Bioblitz: Botany Team Leader 1999 - present
• University of Connecticut: Campus Arboretum Committee 1990 - present
• World Tree day Organizing Committee: 2006 - present
• Yale Peabody Museum: Curatorial Affiliate (D. C. Eaton Herbarium) 1985 - present

JOURNAL REVIEWS

• American Scientist, Conservation Biology, Rhodora, The Northeastern Naturalist, BioScience

PUBLICATIONS

• Mehrhoff, L.J. 1978. Rare and Endangered Vascular Plant Species in Connecticut. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Newton Corner, Massachusetts. 41 pp.
• 1980. Connecticut's Endangered Species Program. Rhodora 82:141-144.
• 1980. Connecticut's rare plant program. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 9(1):1-2.
• 1982. A short-lived addition to the flora of Connecticut. Rhodora 84:304-305.
• 1982. Psilocarya scirpoides Torr., an addition to the Connecticut Flora. Rhodora 84:307-308.
• 1983. Spare those specimens! Citizen's Bulletin, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection 10(6):3-5, 23.
• 1983. What is so rare?...plants that need your protection. Citizen's Bulletin, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection 10(6):17-22.
• 1983. Old plant atlas discovered. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 11(3): 1-2.
• 1983. For the times are a-changin', or an afternoon at Congamond Lake. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 11(3):2-3.
• 1983. Sclerolepis uniflora (Compositae) in New England. Rhodora 85:833-838.
• 1984. The infamous multiflora rose, or is it? Newsletter of the Connecticut Botanical Society 12(1):1-2.
• 1985. Notes of the Connecticut flora I: The Salicaceae of Connecticut. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 13(1):9-12.
• 1985. Notes of the Connecticut flora II: The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Connecticut. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 13(2):1-4.
• 1985. Notes of the Connecticut flora III: Comments on some genera of the Cyperaceae. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 13(3):1-5.
• 1985. Notes of the Connecticut flora IV: The Hollies of Connecticut. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 13(4):4-6.
• 1986. Notes of the Connecticut flora V: The genus Celastrus (Celastraceae) in Connecticut. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 14(1):4-5.
• 1986. Notes of the Connecticut flora VI: The genus Verbascum (Scrophulariaceae) in Connecticut. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 14(2):8-11.
• 1986. Notes of the Connecticut flora VII: The Anacardiaceae of Connecticut. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 14(3):3-7.
• 1988. Platanthera cristata in Connecticut. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 16(3):2-4.
• 1989. Plant Conservation: A Biogeographic Perspective. [New England Botanical Club symposium introduction]. Rhodora 91:3-5.
• 1989. Inventorying Connecticut's vascular plant diversity. Rhodora 91:131-142.
• 1990. A Dream of the Woods A recently discovered piece of early Fernaldiana. Rhodora 92:113-119.
• 1990. Some interesting common names. Newsletter Connecticut Botanical Society 19(1):1-3.
• 1995. Additions to the Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Connecticut. Rhodora 97:9-38.
• 1997. Museums, research collections, and the biodiversity challenge. in Reaka-Kudla, M., D.H. Wilson, and E.O. Wilson, eds. Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C. pp. 447-465.
• 1997. Woodlands and Forests. New England Wild Flower 1(3):18-21.
• 1998. Thoughts on the biogeography of grassland plants in New England. Pp. 15-23. In: Vickery, P. D. & P. W. Dunwiddie, eds. Grasslands of Northeastern North America. Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, MA.
• 1998. Legacy of concern. New England Wild Flower 2(3):7.
• 1998. The biology of plant invasiveness. New England Wild Flower 2(3):8-10.
• 2000. Higby Mountain/Traprock Ridge. New England Wild Flower 4(2):20.
• 2000. Perennial Microstegium vimineum (Poaceae): an apparent misidentification? J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 127(3):251-254.
• 2000. Immigration and expansion of the New England Flora. Rhodora 102:280-298.
• Mehrhoff, L.J. and W.E. Brumback. 1992. New England Plant Conservation: The Scientific Basis for Effective Action [New England Botanical Club symposium introduction]. Rhodora 94:43-45.
• Brumback, W. E. & L. J. Mehrhoff. 1997. Flora Conservanda: New England. Rhodora 98:233-361.
• Crow, G.E., W.D. Countryman, G.L. Church, L.M. Eastman, C.B. Hellquist, L.J. Mehrhoff, and I.M. Storks. 1981. Rare and endangered vascular plant species in New England. Rhodora 83:259-299.
• Crow, G.E., W.D. Countryman, G.L. Church, L.M. Eastman, C.B. Hellquist, and L.J. Mehrhoff. 1982 New England's rare, threatened, and endangered plants. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Newton Corner, MA 129 pages.
• Les, D. H., L. J. Mehrhoff, M. A. Cleland, and J. D. Gabel. Hydrilla verticillata (Hydrocharitaceae) in Connecticut. J. Aquatic Plant Manage. 35:10-14.
• Les, D. H and L. J. Mehrhoff. 1999. Introduction of nonindigenous aquatic vascular plants in southern New England: a historical perspective. Biological Invasions1:281-300.

ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

• Mehrhoff, L. J. 1998. An annotated list of invasive species occurring without cultivation in Connecticut. http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/collections/herbarium/herbariumother/ilist99.html
• 1998. The non-native Honeysuckles occurring without cultivation in Connecticut. http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/collections/herbarium/herbariumother/lonicera.html
• 1999. An annotated county checklist of the ferns and fern allies of Connecticut http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/collections/herbarium/ctfern.html
• 2000. A provisional list of non-native invasive and potentially invasive plants in New England http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/ccb/publications/publication-3.html
• Mehrhoff, L.J., J.A. Silander, Jr., S. A. Leicht, E. Mosher and N. M. Tabak. 2003. IPANE: Invasive Plant Atlas of New England. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. http://ipane.org/

INCIDENTALS - ADDITIONAL INVOLVEMENT IN INVASIVE SPECIES ISSUES

• Development of criteria for listing species invasive and potentially invasive within a geographic area. These criteria have been adopted in both CT and MA and modified for use in other New England states.
• Prepared the Non-native Invasive and Potentially Invasive Vascular Plants in Connecticut list (Distributed by DEP and the CT Invasive Plant Working Group.)
• Prepared the Draft List of Non-native Invasive and Potentially Invasive Vascular Plants in New England.
• Given many talks on conservation of biodiversity, imperiled species, and invasive plant biology throughout New England and the Northeast.