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Author:

Black, Bryan Andrew

Title:

A boundary-line approach to dendroecological release criteria

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

dendrochronology
historical ecology
forest dynamics
disturbance ecology
release criteria
eastern hemlock

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Marc David Abrams, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kim C Steiner, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Committee Member

Author:

Malcolm, Glenna Marjorie

Title:

Metabolic Response To Temperature By Soil Microorganisms

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

respiration
temperature
ectomycorrhizal fungi
decomposer microorganisms
Q10
global warming

File:

Download Malcolm_GM_dissertation_101907.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Tai Koide, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member
Howard Skinner, Committee Member

Author:

Freytag, John Karl

Title:

Ecological Physiology and Biochemistry of Sulfide Acquisition by Two Hydrocarbon Seep Vestimentiferans, Lamellibrachia luymesi and Seepiophila jonesi

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

sulfide
vestimentiferan
hemoglobin
Riftia
Lamellibrachia
Seepiophila

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member
James J Childress, Committee Member

Author:

Sharda, Jori Nerissa

Title:

ROOT ANATOMICAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN HOST PLANT CONTROL OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL COLONIZATION

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

hypodermal passage cells
arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization
root anatomy
hypodermal suberization
phosphorus
intercellular air space

File:

Download Jori_Sharda_Doctoral_Dissertation4.pdf

Committee Members:

David M Sylvia, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Mueller, Kevin E

Title:

The influence of trees on soil biogeochemistry

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

nitrogen
carbon
acidity
leaf
root
litter
species

File:

Download KEM_dissertation_-_final_version_1-2-11.pdf

Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Jon Chorover, Committee Member

Author:

Valenzuela-Estrada, Luis Rene

Title:

Above- and belowdround physiology in Vaccinium corymbosum L. (northern highbush blueberry) in response to water stress and reproductive effort.

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

root anatomy
root morphology
root architecture
hydraulic redistribution
minirhizotron
belowground carbon allocation
root lifespan
aboveground carbon dynamics

File:

Download Luis_Valenzuela_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Dale Fritton, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Elsa Selina Sanchez, Committee Member

Author:

McDaniel, Marshall Douglas

Title:

ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE IN A WARMER AND WETTER NORTHEASTERN US: HOW WILL SOIL C AND N LOSSES AND MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES RESPOND TO A FOREST HARVEST IN THE FUTURE?

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

soil microbial communities
gas flux
nitrogen
carbon
forest
soil
clear cutting
climate change
forest harvest

File:

Download McDaniel_M.D._Dissertation_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Philip Kaye, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Hangsheng Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Melnick, Rachel L

Title:

ENDOPHYTIC <i>BACILLUS</i> SPP. OF <i>THEOBROMA CACAO</i>: ECOLOGY AND POTENTIAL FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CACAO DISEASES

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

cacao
Tricoderma
bacterial endophytes. biological control
Bacillus

File:

Download Melnick_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Anthony Backman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Anthony Backman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bryan James Bailey, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Committee Member
Gary William Moorman, Committee Member

Author:

Bauerle, Taryn Lynette

Title:

Root dynamics in response to abiotic and biotic stressors in Vitis

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

minirhizotrons
root survivorship
root production
hydraulic redistribution
herbivory

File:

Download bauerle_thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
John Charles Schultz, Committee Member

Author:

Hoover, Benjamin Keith

Title:

True fir resistance to Phytophthora root rot and response to flooding

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Abies
Fraser fir
Phytophthora root rot
root disease
Christmas tree
true fir
Nordmann fir
Canaan fir

File:

Download dissertation_bhoover_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ricky M Bates, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James C Sellmer, Committee Member
Gary William Moorman, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member