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Author:

Marchetto, Katherine Myers

Title:

Abiotic and biotic factors affecting seed release and dispersal of the invasive thistles Carduus nutans and Carduus acanthoides

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

population spread rates
Rhinocyllus conicus
wind dispersal
seed release
Carduus acanthoides
Carduus nutans
Particle Image Velocimetry

File:

Download Marchetto.thesis.b.pdf

Committee Members:

Katriona Shea, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katriona Shea, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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