USGS National Wetlands Research Center: John McCoy profiles

John W. McCoy, M.S.

John W. McCoy, M.S. 1981. Biology, Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe (now University of Louisiana at Monroe). Natural invasion and bottomland hardwood restoration, chemical analysis of plant tissues.

McCoy's research interests are in natural invasion of woody and herbaceous plants onto fallow agricultural fields. He also studies plant fruit and seed chemical and physical makeup and its effect on bottomland hardwood reforestation. Another area of interest is in Atlantic white-cedar survival and growth in the Gulf of Mexico region.

McCoy has also performed an Environmental Assessment Survey of the Vegetation Surrounding a Lower Wilcox Group Coal Gas Well Site.

McCoy's NWRC Publications

The following list of publications is current only through 2001. For an update, please go to the online NWRC publications data base (http://librrefmgr.cr.usgs.gov?func=advSearch) to search for the bibliographic citations of individual staff members.

Refereed

King, S.L., J.A. Allen, and J.W. McCoy. 1998. Long-term effects of a lock and dam and greentree reservoir management on a bottomland hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management 112:213-226.

Other Peer Reviewed Publications

Allen, J.A., J.W. McCoy, and B.D. Keeland. 1998. Natural establishment of woody species on abandoned agricultural fields in the lower Mississippi Valley: first- and second-year results. Pages 263-268 in T.A. Waldrop, editor. Proceedings of the Ninth Biannual Southern Silvicultural Research Conference, February 25-27, 1997, Clemson, SC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, General Technical Report SRS-20, Asheville, NC.

J.A. Allen, J. McCoy, and S.L. King. 1995. Felsenthal greentree reservoir monitoring study: summary of 1995 remeasurements. U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA. (Management report).

Doré, T.J., A.M. Bailey, J.M. McCoy, and G.W. Johnson. 1996. An examination of organic/carbonate-bound metals in bottom sediments of Bayou Trepagnier, Louisiana. Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies XLVI: 109-116.

McCoy, J.W., W. Barrow, K. Ouchley, and K. Ouchley. 2000. Historical forest cover and current reforestation efforts at the Mollicy Farms tract, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. Page 31in L.R. Handley, F.J. D'Erchia, and T.M. Charron, editors. Extended abstracts from BioGeo99: applications of geospatial technology to biological sciences. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division Information and Technology Report USGS/BRD/ITR 2000-0008.

McCoy, J.W., B.D. Keeland, and J.A. Allen. 1998. Natural establishment of woody species on abandoned agricultural fields in the lower Mississippi valley: first- and second-year results. In 59th annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. ASB Bulletin, vol. 45, no. 2, Northeast Louisiana University, Department of Biology.

McCoy, J.W., B.D. Keeland, and J.A. Allen. 1999. Atlantic white cedar plantings in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana and the Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge, Mississippi. Pages 36-41 in T.H. Shear and K. O. Summerville, editors. Proceedings: Atlantic White-cedar Ecology and Management Symposium; 1997 August 6-7; Newport News, VA. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station General Technical Report SRS-27, Asheville, NC.

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