Eastern lilaeopsis (Lilaeopsis chinensis) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

Matt Holder is presently employed as a biologist at Jacques Whitford Environment Limited. Mr. Holder has over ten years of work and research experience in biology, particularly ecology, encompassing many plant and animal taxa. His research interests include ecology of animals and plants in disturbed environments, landscape ecology and systematics of certain animal taxa. His academic research done as part of his Honours B.Sc. at the University of Toronto and his M.Sc. at Acadia University, reflect these interests.

Mr. Holder’s past work relating to species-at-risk include field surveys of rare species in Maritime peatlands for the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, species-at-risk database creation and maintenance for the Ontario Natural Heritage Information Centre, and the development of a comprehensive database for dragonflies and damselflies. Recently, he completed a project for the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, which included the compilation of existing data on rare Atlantic Coastal Plain flora, including Lilaeopsis chinensis.

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