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Author:: Averill, Kristine Marie
Title:: The influence of white-tailed deer and landscape composition and structure on exotic plant success
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: herbivore
invasive plants
invasive species
meta-analysis
plant ecology
File:: Download Averill_Dissertation_2014_July16.pdf
Committee Members:: David A Mortensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David A Mortensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Teller, Brittany J
Title:: Dispersal under Duress: The Ecology of Phenotypically Plastic Passive Dispersal by the Invasive Species Carduus Nutans
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: Dispersal
Population Ecology
Invasive species
Demography
Integrodifference
Population Spread
File:: Download Teller_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Katriona Shea, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member

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Author:: Mccormick, Gail L
Title:: Factors affecting the physiological consequences of stress in eastern fence lizards (Sceloporus undulatus)
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: corticosterone
cross-generational stress
early life stress
Escherichia coli
evolutionary history
fire ant
hemagglutination
File:: Download McCormick_Dissertation_updates_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victoria Anne Braithwaite Read, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Committee Member

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Author:: Thawley, Christopher Jesse
Title:: The causes and consequences of adaptation to a novel invader in the Eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: invasive species
lizard
evolutionary ecology
fire ant
herpetology
gradient
cline
solenopsis invicta
antipredator
File:: Download CThawley_Thesis_FinalSubmission.pdf
Committee Members:: Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member

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Author:: Peng, Xin
Title:: POTENTIAL USE OF N2-FIXING CYANOBACTERIA FOR ESTABLISHING RENEWABLE BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS AND MODULATING SOIL NITROGEN IN AGROECOSYSTEMS
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: cyanobacteria
biological soil crusts
N2-fixation
soil nitrogen cycling
agroecosystem
microbial succession
File:: Download Xin_Peng_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary Ann Bruns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Ann Bruns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Armen Ricardo Kemanian, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Outside Member

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Author:: Mckee, Amalie Elena
Title:: Modelling Management for the Maintenance of Measles Elimination
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: measles
routine immunization
vaccine policy
disease elimination
mathematical models
modelling management
File:: Download McKee_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Katriona Shea, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Fraser Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rachel Annette Smith, Outside Member

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Author:: Conaway, Steven Andrew
Title:: THE ROLE OF HOST-PATHOGEN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN SUCCESSFUL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CIRSIUM ARVENSE WITH THE RUST FUNGUS PUCCINIA PUNCTIFORMIS
Graduate Program:: Plant Pathology
Keywords:: biological control
invasive weeds
canada thistle
rust fungus
cirsium arvense
puccinia puntiformis
File:: Download Conaway_Dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Scott Alan Isard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Alan Isard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Durwood Davis, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Outside Member
Gary W Moorman, Committee Member

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Author:: Liang, Shuang
Title:: SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WILDFIRE AND FUEL TREATMENT ON SIERRA NEVADA FORESTS
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: Sierra Nevada
Forest
Carbon
climate change
wildfire
modeling
LANDIS-II
File:: Download PhD_Dissertation_Ecology_Shuang_Liang_2017Spring_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Matthew D. Hurteau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew D. Hurteau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot W. Kaye, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan H. Taylor, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Outside Member

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Author:: Girard, Fanny Apine
Title:: INSIGHTS FROM LONG-TERM MONITORING OF DEEP-SEA CORAL COMMUNITIES IMPACTED BY THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: Deep-sea corals
Octocoral
Image analysis
Monitoring
Resilience
Oil spill
File:: Download Thesis_FGirard_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles R. Fisher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katriona Shea, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd C. LaJeunesse, Committee Member
Keith Shapiro, Committee Member
Keith Shapiro, Outside Member

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Author:: Carran, Spencer Alexander
Title:: Equity in Disease Management
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: Measles
Public health policy
epidemiology
disease management
File:: Download Carran-Dissertation_-_p_i-iii_vs_2.0_w_Pub_1_and_2__003_.pdf
Committee Members:: Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member
Timothy Charles Reluga, Committee Member

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