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Author:

Anders, Angela Dawn

Title:

EFFECTS OF LARGE-SCALE CLIMATE ON AVIAN POPULATION DYNAMICS ACROSS SPECIES' NORTH AMERICAN BREEDING DISTRIBUTIONS

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

North Atlantic Oscillation
climate change
Breeding Bird Survey
population dynamics
landbird
El Nino Southern Oscillation

File:

Download Anders_Formatted_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Christopher Barry Goguen, Committee Member
Matthew Marshall, Committee Member

Author:

Scholl, Andrew E

Title:

Understanding Mixed Conifer Forests in Yosemite National Park: An Historical Analysis of Fire Regimes and Vegetation Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

fire climate interactions
forest dynamics
vegetation change
fire history
carbon sequestration
fire suppression

File:

Download Scholl_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan H Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert P Brooks, Committee Member
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Member

Author:

Govenar, Breea

Title:

Factors affecting the epifaunal community associated with Riftia pachyptila at deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

hydrothermal vent
East Pacific Rise
tubeworm
Riftia pachyptila
marine benthic
community ecology

File:

Download govenar_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric S Post, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member

Author:

Tzilkowski, Caleb J

Title:

Native brook trout and naturalized brown trout effects on two Pennsylvania headwater stream food chains

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

food chains
indigenous species
introduced species
streams
predator-prey interactions
trophic cascade

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Paola Ferreri, Committee Member
Hunter J Carrick, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Member

Author:

Pedersen, Christian

Title:

THE RESPONSE OF ARCTIC VEGETATION TO CLIMATE WARMING IN AN UNGULATE GRAZING SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

climate change
herbivory
phenology
ungulates
arctic
vegetation
grazing
reproduction
flowering

File:

Download Chr_Pedersen_PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Christopher Uhl, Committee Member

Author:

Lieb, David Andrew

Title:

THE ECOLOGY, DISTRIBUTION, CONSERVATION, AND MANAGEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA’S SURFACE-DWELLING CRAYFISH FAUNA WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE EASTERN PART OF THE STATE

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Pennsylvania
management
conservation
distribution
ecology
crayfish

File:

Download FinalVersion_PhDDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Robert F Carline, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert F Carline, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hunter J Carrick, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member

Author:

Garneau, Danielle Elaine

Title:

Spatio-temporal Dynamics of a Multiple Predator-Single Prey System

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

black bears
moose calves
brown bears
gray wolves
movements
habitat use
parturition synchrony
Alaska

File:

Download DanielleElaineGarneauThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
Alan Taylor, Committee Member
Richard Tucker Yahner, Committee Member

Author:

Rauschert, Emily Sofia Jalics

Title:

Competitive interactions and associations of the invasive thistles <I>Carduus nutans</I> and <I>Carduus acanthoides</I>

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

invasive species
microsite
coexistence
competition
competition models
<I>Carduus</I>

File:

Download EmilyRauschertDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Katriona Shea, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric S Post, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Committee Member

Author:

Sessa, Jocelyn Anne

Title:

THE DIVERSITY, ECOLOGY, CLIMATE, AND PRESERVATION OF MARINE COMMUNITIES IN THE TWENTY MILLION YEARS FOLLOWING THE END CRETACEOUS MASS EXTINCTION

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

end Cretaceous mass extinction
diversity recovery
mollusc
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Paleogene
Gulf Coastal Plain

File:

Download Sessa_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Patzkowsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy J. Bralower, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda Ivany, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member

Author:

Tonegawa, Masami

Title:

USE OF PEROXIDASE-CONTAINING PLANT MATERIAL FOR THE DECONTAMINATION OF WASTEWATER AND DEODORIZATION OF ANIMAL WASTES.

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Decontamination; Deodorization; Peroxidase; Horser

File:

Download Masami_Tonegawa.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerzy Dec, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jean Marc Bollag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Member
Eileen Wheeler, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Committee Member