Contact Information:
Dr. Alvin Diamond
Assistant Professor and Director of the Arboretum
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
210K McCall Hall
Troy University, AL 36082
' 334-670-3938
6  334- 670-3662
E-mail address: adiamond@troy.edu

Classes Taught at Troy University

General Ecology
Population Ecology
Field Vertebrate Zoology
Organismal Biology
Fall Flora

Troy University Herbarium (TROY)
Master of Science in Environmental and Biological Sciences Program
 

Favorite Links

ISB: Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Vascular Plant Image Gallery
NEARCTICA
Ornithological Jobs
ODU Plant Site
Biology and Conservation Jobs with the Federal Government 
Wildflowers of the Escambia

Current Projects

THE FLORA OF PIKE COUNTY, ALABAMA
A checklist of the flora of Crenshaw County, Alabama.
A checklist of the flora of Butler County, Alabama.
A flora of southeastern Alabama

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

PUBLICATIONS
 

    Bowers, F.D., M. LeLong and A. Diamond. 1989. New or rare mosses of Alabama from the Piedmont and Gulf Coastal Plain. The Bryologist 92(4), 485-489.

    Diamond, A., and J. D. Freeman. 1993. A checklist of the vascular flora of Conecuh County, Alabama. SIDA 15(4), 623-638.

    Diamond, A., C. Chapman, and J. Brummett. 1998. Habranthus tubispathus (Liliaceae) new to the flora of Alabama. SIDA 18 (1), 353-355.

    Diamond, A., M. Woods, and H. Rundell. 1999. Epiphyllous hepatics from Southern Alabama. The Bryologist 102 (2), 309-313.

    Rundell, H., and A. Diamond. 1999. Noteworthy Collections from Alabama. Castanea 64 (4), 355-356.

    Woods, M., B. Prazinko, and A. R. Diamond. 2000. The vascular flora of Dale County Lake, Alabama. Alabama Academy of Science 72(1): 64-81.

    Martin B. H., M. Woods, and A. R. Diamond.  2002.  The vascular flora of Coffee County, Alabama. Castanea 67(3): 227-246 .

    Diamond, A. R., M. Woods, J. A. Hall, and B. H. Martin.  2002.  The vascular flora of the Pike County Pocosin Nature Preserve. Southeastern Naturalist 1(1) 45-54.

    Woods, M., A. R. Diamond, and D. Searcy.  2003.  Noteworthy collections from Alabama. Castanea 68(1): 91-92.

    Diamond, A. R. Jr. 2003. A checklist of the vascular flora of Pike County, Alabama. Castanea 68(2): 143-159.
 
    Diamond, A. R., and R. S. Boyd. 2004. Distribution, Habitat Characteristics, and Population Trends of the Rare Southeastern Endemic Rudbeckia auriculata (Perdue) Kral (Asteraceae). Castanea 69(4):  249–264.

    Martin, B., A. Diamond, Jr., and M. Woods.  2000. A preliminary survey of the vascular flora of the Pike County Pocosin, Alabama. Association of Southeastern Biologist Bulletin 47(2), 170.

    Diamond, A. 2000. Warea in Alabama. Alabama Academy of Science 71 (1-2), 2.

    Hall, J. A., M. Woods, and A. Diamond. 2000. A survey of the fall and winter vascular flora of the Pike County Pocosin. Alabama Academy of Science 71 (1-2), 2.

    Bennett, Holly H., Alvin R. Diamond , and Michael Woods. 2001. Insect visitors to Warea sessilifolia   Nash. Association of Southeastern Biologist Bulletin 48 (2), 148.

    Hall, James A., Michael Woods, and Alvin R. Diamond Jr . 2001. The Vascular flora of the Pike County Pocosin Nature Preserve, Alabama. Association of Southeastern Biologist Bulletin 48 (2), 131.

    Martin, Brian H., Michael Woods, and Alvin R. Diamond Jr. 2001. The vascular flora of Coffee County, Alabama. Association of Southeastern Biologist Bulletin 48 (2), 131.

    Clardy, Todd, Alvin R. Diamond, Jr., Danice H. Costes, and Daryl Richburg. 2001. Preliminary investigations of the floral visitors of Dalea pinnata (J. F. Gmel.) Barneby (Fabaceae) in southern Alabama. Alabama Academy of Science 72 (2) 101.

    Thomason, K., A. Diamond, and M. Woods.  2002.  Investigations of the reproductive biology of Warea sessilifolia Nash (Brassicaceae) in Alabama.  Southeastern Biology 49(2): 167-168.

    Jones, TeLenna,  and Alvin R. Diamond. 2004. Preliminary results of the comparison of herpetofaunal abundance and diversity in different forest cover types and their response to timber harvesting. Association of Southeastern Biologist Bulletin 51 (2), 102.

    Diamond, Alvin. 2006. Rudbeckia auriculata (Perdue) Kral parasitized by Asphondylia rudbeckiaeconspicua Osten Sacken  (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Alabama. Alabama Academy of Sciences 77(2): 47.

    Diamond, A. R., and M. Woods.  2006.  Gymnosperms of southeast and southcentral Alabama. Southeastern Biology 53(2): 300.

    Woods, M., and A. R. Diamond.  2006.  New and Interesting Plants from Alabama.  Alabama Academy of Sciences 77(2): 55.

    Farr, J. and A. Diamond. 2007. Species richness and diversity of treefrogs in Lillian Swamp, Baldwin County, Alabama. Southeastern Biology 54(3): 240.

   Diamond, A. R.  2007. Rare vascular plants of Crenshaw County , Alabama. Alabama Academy of Science 78(2): 118.  

     Diamond, A. R.  2008. The Greenfly Orchid (Epidendrum magnoliae Muhl., Orchidaceae) in Alabama . Alabama Academy of Science.