Search

Author:

Letts, Brandon

Title:

Using ancient DNA to investigate the influence of environmental change on animal populations

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

Pleistocene
Holocene
bison
armadillo
steamer duck
caribou
environment
evolution
glaciation

File:

Download LettsThesis_111711_FINALforUpload.pdf

Committee Members:

Beth Shapiro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell W Graham, Committee Member
Iliana Brigitta Baums, Committee Member
Daniel Bradley, Committee Member
Beth Shapiro, Committee Member

Author:

Pardi, Melissa Irene

Title:

Local and broad scale changes in North American small mammal community structure: the late Pleistocene through the late Holocene

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

multivariate analysis
paleoecology
Holocene
Pleistocene
glacial
small mammals
non-analog

File:

Download Completed_Thesis_04_11_2_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell W Graham, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell W Graham, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Christie, Max Lawrence

Title:

Biogeographic, Functional, and Phylogenetic Consequences of the Pliocene to Modern in the Western Atlantic

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Pliocene
Pleistocene
Mollusk
Coastal Plain
Plio-Pleistocene Extinction
Phylogenetics
Functional Ecology
Biogeography

File:

Download Christie_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark E Patzkowsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Todd C Lajeunesse, Outside Member

Author:

Rizzo, Adriana

Title:

OCEAN ECOSYSTEM TRANSFORMATION CAUSED BY RAPID WARMING AND SEA LEVEL RISE IN THE PLEISTOCENE CARIACO BASIN (MIS 9-7)

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

paleoceanography
coccolithophores
phytoplankton
paleoecology
organic geochemistry
Pleistocene
Climate Change
harmful algae bloom
productivity
sea level
ITCZ
Cariaco Basin
micropaleontology
UK37
nutrients
Emiliania huxleyi
Florisphaera profunda
dinoflagellates
Margalef's Mandala
MIS 8

File:

Download Rizzo_Thesis_PostDefense_tosubmit2.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member

Author:

Benfield, Adam

Title:

Terrestrial ecosystem dynamics across Quaternary glacial terminations: Paleoecological insights from California and Malesia

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Palynology
Ecology
Indonesia
Tropics
Mono Lake
Pollen
Pleistocene

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit Member
Sarah Ivory, Special Member
Peter Wilf, Major Field Member
Sarah Ivory, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Roman DiBiase, Outside Field Member

Author:

Early, David

Title:

Detecting Rates Of Vegetation Change In Africa From The Last Glacial Maximum To The Present

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Pollen
Rate-of-Change
Database
Paleoecology
Palynology
R
Holocene
Pleistocene
Land Use
Africa

File:

Download Early_MSThesis_2024.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah J Ivory, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member