Floodplain Hotspots for Southern Hardwood Herbs by Nick Hill. who is a plant ecologist. 

Nick Hill trained in botany at Acadia with Sam VanderKloet (BSc/MSc) and received his Ph.D in microbial ecology at Dalhousie University. His post-doctoral work was done with Paul Keddy in 1988 looking for the reasons for rarity in plant species in 47 lakes in southwest Nova Scotia. That began his interest in rare plants and conservation biology.

Taught at Mount St. Vincent 1989-2003. I continued research into the rare elements of the coastal plain flora in NS. This period also included three and a half years in Kentucky where he did sabbaticals and fell in love with their deciduous forest flora and found a new bible: Lucy Braun's Deciduous Forest of Eastern North America.

He now works as a wetland consultant and part-time lecturer at Dalhousie's College of Sustainability and at St. Francis Xavier (field course) and he is developing a native plant nurery at his farm in South Berwick.

He will be comparing two very different wetland systems: the acid, infertile coastal plain lake shores, and the fertile floodplains of eastern Nova Scotia.