East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 8-2013 Cause and Impacts of the Early Season Collapse of Lilium grayi (Gray’s lily), on Roan Mountain, TN/ NC Russell J. Ingram East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the Botany Commons, Plant Pathology Commons, and the Population Biology Commons Recommended Citation Ingram, Russell J., "Cause and Impacts of the Early Season Collapse of Lilium grayi (Gray’s lily), on Roan Mountain, TN/NC" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1190. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1190 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Cause and Impacts of the Early Season Collapse of Lilium grayi (Gray’s lily), on Roan Mountain, TN/NC ____________________________ A thesis Presented to the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in Biology ____________________________ by Russell Jackson Ingram August 2013 ____________________________ Foster Levy, Ph.D.- Chair Jamey Donaldson, M.S. Aruna Kilaru, Ph.D. Timothy McDowell, Ph.D. Alan Windham, Ph.D. Keywords: Pseudocercosporella inconspicua, Lilium grayi, Gray’s lily, epidemiology, natural populations, spatial patterns, disease association, lily leaf spot ABSTRACT Cause and Impacts of the Early Season Collapse of Lilium grayi (Gray’s lily), on Roan Mountain, TN/NC by Russell Jackson Ingram A population of the rare Southern Appalachian endemic species Lilium grayi, (Gray’s lily) Roan Mountain, TN/NC was monitored for 2 years to determine the cause and impact of an early season collapse.