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Author:

Nord, Eric A

Title:

Patience is a virtue: Delayed phenology is an adaptive response for plants in soils with low phosphorus availability.

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

phosphorus
phenology
climate change
Arabidopsis

File:

Download Eric_Nord_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Rui

Title:

Biological invasions in a changing world: responses of two invasive thistles to disturbance and climate change

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Carduus acanthoides
biological invasion
climate change
warming
disturbance
Carduus nutans

File:

Download Rui_Zhang_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

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

Author:

Keller, Joseph

Title:

Timing matters: Climate change, phenology, demography, and management of the invasive weed Carduus nutans

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Carduus nutans
climate change
weed management
integral projection model
phenology
biological control

File:

Download Keller_Joseph_ecology_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Katriona Shea, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katriona Shea, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Michael Saunders, Committee Member
James Rosenberger, Outside Member

Author:

Ware-Gilmore, Fhallon

Title:

Exploring the role of thermal performance in shaping dengue virus transmission and its implication for human health under a changing climate

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

Thermal tolerance
evolution
aedes aegypti
heat waves
wolbachaia
thermal sensitivity
arboviruses
adaptation
climate change
flaviviruses
aedes albopictus
dengue virus
dengue fever
thermal tolerance
mosquitoes
insect physiology

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katriona Shea, Outside Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Rudolf Schilder, Major Field Member
Matthew Thomas, Special Member
Ganesh Anand, Outside Unit Member
Moriah Szpara, Outside Field Member