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Sheila Schueller

Lecturer & Academic Program Specialist
Ecosystem Science and Management
Conservation + Restoration
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Sheila Schueller teaches as a Lecturer in Ecosystem Science and Management courses, including the core field-based ecology course for incoming master’s students (EAS 509) and the Master’s Project 3-term Theme Course: Conservation and Restoration (EAS 701.376). She completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan and previously served as Assistant Director of the Ecosystem Management Initiative in SEAS and as an instructional consultant for the UM Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. She has been teaching ecology and field biology courses since 2002, both at U of M and at Eastern Michigan University, and also worked for several years as an adaptive management consultant, developing practical guides and facilitating workshops on evaluation and monitoring for conservation organizations across the country. Her research background is in plant-animal interactions, especially the pollination and seed dispersal of invasive plants, and she advises student research on how managed and built environments (from farms to native landscaping to suburban forests) support biodiversity and ecosystem function and services. In teaching she seeks to integrate student research and field work with the real-world data needs of natural resource planners and managers.

Publications

  • Schueller, Sheila K., Zhelin Li, Zoe Bliss, Rachelle Roake, and Beth Weiler. 2023. How Informed Design Can Make a Difference: Supporting Insect Pollinators in Cities. (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/7/1289) Land 12, no. 7: 1289.
  • Ibáñez, I. G. Liu, L. Petri, S. Schaffer-Morrison, S. Schueller, S. 2021. Assessing vulnerability and resistance to plant invasions: A native community perspective. Invasive Plant Science and Management 14:64-74.
  • Fickes, B., H. Anderson, and S. Schueller. 2019. Management of Three Lakes in Yunnan, China: How can ecological protection and "human-centered" development be balanced? Michigan Sustainability Case.
  • Schueller, S., Paul, S., N. Payer, R. Shultze, and M. Vikas 2018. Urbanization decreases the extent and variety of leaf herbivory for native canopy tree species Quercus rubra, Quercus alba, and Acer saccharum. Urban Ecosystems 22(5): 907–916.
  • Ollerton, J., S. Watts, S. Connerty, J. Lock, L. Parker, I. Wilson, S. Schueller, J. Nattero, A. Cocucci, I. Izhaki, S. Geerts, A. Pauw, J. Stout. 2012. Pollination ecology of the invasive tree tobacco Nicotiana glauca: comparisons across native and non-native ranges. Journal of Pollination Ecol, 9(12): 85-95.
  • Schueller, S.K., S.L. Yaffee, S. J. Higgs, K. Mogelgaard, and E. A. DeMattia. 2006. Evaluation Sourcebook: Measures of Progress for Community and Ecosystem-based Projects. Ecosystem Management Initiative, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 226 pp. PDF http://www.snre.umich.edu/ecomgt/evaluation/sourcebook.htm

Education

PhD, University of Michigan (ecology, evolutionary biology)

MS, University of Michigan (biology)

BA, Swarthmore College (biology)

Affiliations
  • Huron River Watershed Council Advisory Committee
  • Reviewer: New Zealand Journal of Botany, Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
In the News
SEAS master's students working in the St. Pierre Wetland
May 27, 2025

SEAS graduate students deliver first-ever model stewardship plan for rare, threatened wetland

Contact: [email protected] A team of six master’s students led by Lecturer and Project Advisor Sheila Schueller from the University of Michigan School for Environment...

NAP
January 22, 2025

SEAS master's project helps to inform management practices of natural areas in Ann Arbor

Ludo Behrendt, Jana Hustedt and Troy Tofil from the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) presented preliminary findings and research...

SEAS Professor of Practice Paul Seelbach retires
July 10, 2023

SEAS Professor of Practice Paul Seelbach retires

Six years after joining the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) as a professor of practice—a role he described as the “wrapping” on a...

Wheelock
April 21, 2022

Meet the Future of Environmental Policy and Planning: Amanda Wheelock (MS ’22)

After graduating in 2013 with a degree in human geography from Dartmouth, Amanda Wheelock (MS ’22) started working as an outdoor educator. It was during this time that...

Field-Based Learning in the COVID-19 Era
November 16, 2020

Field-Based Learning in the COVID-19 Era

Field-based learning is an integral part of the SEAS experience. And one of the biggest concerns for SEAS faculty was how to safely hold in-person field labs for incoming...

In the Media
07/10/2023
Sheila Schueller
Spaces: The ‘SEAS Bees’ Pollinator Garden (Michigan Alumni Association)
04/17/2023
Sheila Schueller
Food forests can bring climate resilience, better health, and tasty produce to city residents (Popular Science)
03/29/2023
Sheila Schueller
Issues of the Environment: University of Michigan achieves "bee-friendly" status as safe haven for pollinators (WEMU 89.1)
03/16/2023
Sheila Schueller
The latest buzz: UMich designated bee-friendly campus (The Michigan Daily)
02/20/2023
Sheila Schueller
University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus is a bee-friendly place (MLive)
02/20/2023
Sheila Schueller
Ann Arbor campus joins Bee Campus USA movement (University Record)
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