Dissertations and Theses of Ecology Graduates
Dissertations and Theses
| Keller, Danielle |
2018 Ph.D. |
How the structure and spatial components of habitat affect estuarine communities |
| Payne, Christopher |
2018 Ph.D. |
Long-term temporal dynamics of Duke Forest |
| Sellers, Samuel |
2017 Ph.D. |
Three essays on population, health, and environment linkages: Evidence from South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia |
| Hakkenberg, Chris |
2017 Ph.D. |
Mapping plant diversity and composition across North Carolina Piedmont forest landscapes using LiDAR-hyperspectral remote sensing |
| Woodruff, Sierra |
2017 Ph.D. |
Local Climate Change Adaptation Planning in the United States |
| Tessel, Samantha |
2017 Ph.D. |
Dispersal effects on species distribution and diversity across multiple scales in the southern Appalachian mixed mesophytic flora |
| Lopez, Bianca |
2017 Ph.D. |
The effects of urbanization on riparian forests in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina |
| Esch, Margaret |
2016 Ph.D. |
Investigating tidal inundation, pore water seepage, and groundwater flow within a salt marsh of the Florida gulf coast |
| Tarasi, Dennis |
2016 Ph.D. |
Community interactions and impacts of exotic plant species in the southeastern United States |
| Wilfahrt, Peter |
2016 Ph.D. |
From old fields to forests: Understanding plant successional dynamics through the lens of functional traits |
| Welsh, Miranda |
2016 Ph.D. |
Trait-based variation in host contribution to pathogen transmission |
| Ran, Limei |
2016 Ph.D. |
Improving land surface modeling using satellite and field observation data for a meteorology and air quality modeling system |
| Evans, Brian |
2015 Ph.D. |
The Ecology Of Birds In The Urban Landscape: Avian Community Composition, Dispersal, And Survival Across The Rural-To-Urban Gradient In Washington D.C. |
| Palmquist, Kyle |
2014 Ph.D. |
Community assembly and vegetation patterns across space and time in the longleaf pine ecosystem |
| White, Jacqueline |
2014 Ph.D. |
The impacts of altered floodplain-hydrology of the lower Roanoke river on tree regeneration and floodplain forest composition |
| Gittman, Rachel |
2014 Ph.D. |
The Living Shoreline Approach As An Alternative To Shoreline Hardening: Implications For The Ecology And Ecosystem Service Delivery Of Salt Marshes |
| Caplow, Susan |
2014 Ph.D. |
The Communication of Values, Beliefs, and Norms in Live Animal Interpretive Experiences: A Comparative Case Study |
| Miller, Brian |
2013 Ph.D. |
Linking Conservation Goals and Outcomes: The Social-Ecological Dynamics of Drought Resource Management in East Africa |
| Muelbauer, Jeffrey |
2013 Ph.D. |
Ecological heterogeneity in streams : geomorphic and hydrologic influences on macroinvertebrate community structure |
| Gamazo, Andrea |
2013 Ph.D. |
Ecology and evolution of the lionfish invasion of Caribbean coral reefs: resistance, adaptation and impacts |
| Rua, Megan |
2012 Ph.D. |
The Role Of Mutualists In Plant Response To Pathogen Infection |
| Wheeler, Brooke |
2011 Ph.D. |
Species diversity of vegetation in the Carolinas : the influence and interaction of scale of observation, soil nutrients, and disturbance events |
| Matthews, Elizabeth |
2011 Ph.D. |
Piedmont alluvial vegetation : classification, geographic variation, and restoration |
| Ensign, Scott |
2010 Ph.D. |
The biogeochemistry and ecology of tidal freshwater rivers |
| Costanza, Jennifer |
2010 Ph.D. |
Conservation of the longleaf pine ecosystem : ecology and social context |
| D’Anna, Linda |
2010 Ph.D. |
Ecological restoration on the half shell : the cultural ecology of oyster management and restoration in North Carolina |
| George, Andrew |
2010 Ph.D. |
PDF Conservation democracy : ecology, public participation, & United States National Forest management under the Healthy Forest Initiative |
| Hester, Erich |
2008 Ph.D. |
Impact of geomorphic structures on hyporheic exchange, temperature, and ecological processes in streams |
| McKown, Matthew |
2008 Ph.D. |
Acoustic communication in colonial seabirds: Individual, sexual, and species-specific variation in acoustic signals of Pterodroma petrels |
| Selig, Elizabeth |
2008 Ph.D. |
Effects of Changing Temperatures on Coral Reef Health: Implications For Management |
| Kuppinger, Dane |
2008 Ph.D. |
Post-fire vegetation dynamics and the invasion of Paulownia tomentosa in the southern Appalachians |
| Luther, David |
2008 Ph.D. |
the evolution of communication in a complex acoustic environment |
| Selig, Elizabeth |
2008 Ph.D. |
Effects of changing temperatures on coral reef health : implications for management |
| Norwood, Carla |
2008 Ph.D. |
Making maps that matter? : the role of geospatial information in addressing rural landscape change |
| Cooke, Amy |
2007 Ph.D. |
Subdividing the savanna: the ecology of change in northern Tanzania |
| Cumming, Gabriel |
2007 Ph.D. |
Explorations in discursive ecology: addressing landscape change with rural North Carolinians |
| Fariss, Brandie |
2007 Ph.D. |
Finding common ground: Conservation, development and indigenous livelihoods in the Huascaran Biosphere Reserve, Peru |
| McKnight, Meghan |
2007 Ph.D. |
Broad-scale patterns and determinants of beta diversity |
| McDaniel, Eileen |
2007 Ph.D. |
The effectiveness of rotating Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in fisheries management: A case study of the NC hard lam fishery |
| Jobe, Todd |
2006 Ph.D. |
Biodiversity and scale: determinants of richness in Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
| Lamphere, Bradley |
2005 Ph.D. |
Movement and gene flow in an actively sedentary stream fish, the mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi) |
| Jackson, Laura |
2005 Ph.D. |
The relationship of land-cover patterns to lyme disease |
| Messer, William |
2005 Ph.D. |
The evolution of dengue virus type 3 in association with the emergence of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Sri Lanka |
| Grabowski, Jonathan |
2002 Ph.D. |
The influence of trophic interactions, habitat complexity, and landscape setting on community dynamics and restoration of oyster reefs |
| Brown, Rebecca |
2002 Ph.D. |
Biodiversity and exotic species invasion in southern Appalachian riparian plant communities |
| Crate, Susan |
2002 Ph.D. |
Cows, kin and capitalism: the cultural ecology of Viliui Sakha in the Post-Socialist Era |
| Gangi, Gregory |
1999 Ph.D. |
Disturbance and predation mediated by ant-plant-wasp mutualisms |
| Harrod, Jonathan |
1999 Ph.D. |
Disturbance history and ecological change in a southern Appalachian landscape: western Great Smoky Mountains National Park 1936-1996 |
| Lu, Flora |
1999 Ph.D. |
Changes in subsistence patterns and resource use of the Huaorani Indians in the Ecuadorian Amazon |
| DiDonato, Guy |
1998 Ph.D. |
An experimental investigation of interactions between two freshwater mussels, Elliptio Waccamawensis and Leptodea Ochracea, in Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina: effects of environment and scale |
| Kann, Jacob |
1998 Ph.D. |
Ecology and water quality dynamics of a shallow hypereutrophic lake dominated by cyanobacteria (Aphanizomenon flos-aquae) |
| Newell, Claire |
1997 Ph.D. |
Local and regional variation in the vegetation of the southern Appalachian Mountains |
| DeCoster, James |
1996 Ph.D. |
Impacts of tornados and hurricanes on the community structure and dynamics of North and South Carolina forests |
| Falter, Meg |
1996 Ph.D. |
The impact of Megalopteran predators (Corydalus cornutus) on stream macrobenthic community structure |
| Clayton, Patti |
1995 Ph.D. |
Connection on the ice: environmental ethics in theory and practice |
| Poston, Joseph |
1995 Ph.D. |
Male competition for mates and mechanisms of mate choice by females in the boat-tailed grackle (Quiscalus major). |
| Rowland, Kathryn |
1995 Ph.D. |
An experimental study of the effects of phosphorus level and nitrogen:phosphorus ratio on zooplankton community structure |
| Nekola, Jeffrey |
1994 Ph.D. |
Ecology and Biogeography of Isolated Habitats: Fens and Algific Talus Slopes in Northeastern Iowa |
| Wohlenberg, Margaret |
1994 Ph.D. |
Ecology of a temperate coral |
| Boal, Jean |
1993 Ph.D. |
An assessment of complex learning on octopuses |
| Ehinger, William |
1992 Ph.D. |
Experimental studies of the effects of nutrients and Daphnia grazing on phytoplankton biomass and growth in a eutrophic lake (Agency Lake, Oregon) |
| Anderson, Molly |
1989 Ph.D. |
Practices and values of North Carolina alternative farmers |
| Foster, Bradley |
1988 Ph.D. |
The significance of body size variation in populations of the land snail Mesodon normalis |
| Read, Barry |
1988 Ph.D. |
Bright leaf and red clay: family farming and soil conservation in Piedmont, North Carolina |
| Stevens, Ernest |
1988 Ph.D. |
Kin selection and cooperative breeding in the stripe-backed wren (Campylorhynchus nuchalis) |
| Diamond, Jerome |
1984 Ph.D. |
History, disturbance and colonization: effects on lotic macroinvertebrate assemblages |
| Mercado-Escobar, Mérida |
1983 Ph.D. |
Natural resource conservation and small-scale farming in the eastern highlands of Puerto Rico: social and historical perspectives |
| Brown, Timothy |
1982 Ph.D. |
Feeding habits, habitat distribution, and coexistence in two species of Chaoborus larvae |
| Kneidel, Kenneth |
1982 Ph.D. |
Disturbance and diversity in communities of carrion-breeding diptera |
| Ganter, Philip |
1981 Ph.D. |
The effect of population structure on growth rate, survivorship, reproduction, and aggregation behavior of Armadillidium nasatum and Armadillidium vulgare |
| Carlson, Paul |
1980 Ph.D. |
Oxygen diffusion from the roots of Spartina alterniflora and the role of Spartina in the sulfur cycle of salt marsh sediments |
| Kneib, Paul |
1980 Ph.D. |
The sesponses of a soft-sediment intertidal community to experimental manipulations of the population size structure and density of a predator, Fundulus heteroclitus |
| Schroeder, Janet |
1980 Ph.D. |
Whistled song as communication in the tufted titmouse (Parus bicolor) |
| Plotecia, Raymond |
1979 |
Experimental analysis of chemically mediated interactions in populations of tree-hole mosquito larvae |
| Yarbro, Laura |
1979 Ph.D. |
Phosphorus cycling in the Creeping Swamp floodplain ecosystem and exports from the Creeping Swamp watershed |
| Box, Elgene |
1978 Ph.D. |
Ecoclimatic determination of terrestrial vegetation physiognomy |
| Alho, Cleber |
1977 Ph.D. |
Spatial distribution of Peromyscus leucopus in different habitats |
| Reader, Richard |
1973 Ph.D. |
Leaf emergence, leaf coloration, and photosynthetic period-productivity models for the eastern Deciduous forest biome |
| Jenkins, Molly |
2018 M.S. |
Core species prevalence driven by scale, environmental heterogeneity |
| Alexander, Genevieve |
2018 M.S. |
The effects of invasive earthworms on understory plant community composition in sugar maple-basswood forests of the Chippewa National Forest, MN over two decades |
| Mayer, Anthony |
2017 M.S. |
Sustaining Garden Stewardship: Environmental Education in Rural Youth Development Programs |
| Gold, Adam |
2017 M.S. |
Impacts of coastal stormwater pond nitrogen cycling on downstream water quality |
| Palko, Hanna |
2017 M.S. |
Exploring Potential Sites for Salinity Gradient Renewable Energy on the North Carolina Coast and Predicting the Effects of Local Salinity Regime Variation on SAV Communities due to Reverse Electrodialysis Effluent |
| Holloman, Diamond |
2017 M.A. |
Critical Urban Ecology: Links to Social Vulnerability and Environmental Justice in the Aftermath of Hurricanes |
| Becraft, Katie |
2013 M.S. |
Foraging Niches And Resource Partitioning Between Three Co-Occurring Songbirds In The Southern Appalachians |
| Adams, Nicholas |
2012 M.S. |
A synthesis of rights-of-way native plant communities: identifying their relevance to historical and contemporary Piedmont savannas |
| Faestel, Megan |
2012 M.S. |
Classification and description of alluvial plant communities of the North Carolina Coastal Plain |
| Breckeimer, Ian |
2012 M.S. |
Mapping habitat quality in conservation's neglected geography |
| Schwartz, Naomi |
2012 M.S. |
Fire ecology and fire management in the Southern Appalachians: rationale for and effects of prescribed fire |
| Bidgood, Emily |
2011 M.S. |
Reaching a million : land conservation patterns and process in North Carolina, 1999-2009 |
| Seymour, Stephanie |
2011 M.S. |
Vegetation of non-alluvial wetlands of the southeastern Piedmont |
| Savvas, Catherine |
2010 M.S. |
Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States |
| Vandusen, Beth |
2010 M.S. |
bitat complexity and patch choice : spatiotemporal distribution of foraging shorebirds on intertidal sand flats |
| Schwartz, Rebecca |
2010 M.S. |
Land use affects the timing and magnitude of material delivery to headwater streams in coastal North Carolina |
| Kristie, Wendelberger |
2010 M.S. |
Assessing microsite and regeneration niche preferences when introducing endangered species |
| Winters, Dahl |
2009 M.S. |
Arctic plant migration by 2100 : comparing predictions with observations |
| Savvas, Katerina |
2008 M.S. |
| Apple, Carly |
2007 M.S. |
How we learn about climate change: Environmental education in North Carolina |
| Handel, Neville |
2007 M.A. |
Habitat Loss and Fragmentation in the Landscape |
| Jones Gramling, Andrea |
2006 M.S. |
A conservation assessment of Packera millefolium, a southern Appalachian endemic |
| Marcinko, Sarah |
2006 M.S. |
Pattern and process in rare plant conservation: an assessment of the southeastern U.S. |
| George, Andrew |
2006 M.A. |
Conservation management and public participation: addressing democratic decision-making for U.S. National Forests |
| Kaplan, Jessica |
2005 M.A. |
The relation of understory grasses in longleaf pine ecosystems to fire and geography |
| Ensign, Scott |
2004 M.S. |
Nutrient dynamics in coastal North Carolina streams: spatial/temporal variation and processes influencing nitrogen and phosphorus uptake |
| Taverna, Kristin |
2004 M.S. |
Mature hardwood forests of the central Piedmont of North Carolina: landscape distribution and understory change |
| Trufant, Jill |
2003 M.A. |
Holly Springs, N.C.: one place, two times, two questions of enviornmental justice: landfill siting and demographic change. |
| Geraci, Christy |
2002 M.A. |
The influence of land cover on the benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in the Little Creek and Morgan Creek watersheds |
| Batchelder, Miriam |
2002 M.A. |
Assessing the effects of landscape conditions on fish community structure at multiple scales: the impact of urbanization on North Carolina Piedmont streams |
| Knott, Mark |
2001 M.A. |
Prescribed burning activity in remnant longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystems of North and South Carolina: patterns,uinfluencing factors, and policy recommendations |
| White, Chris |
2001 M.S. |
Harvesting as Healing: The significance of a land-based economy in Northern Canadian Aboriginal Communities |
| James, Mary |
2000 M.A. |
Legumes in loamy soil communities of the Carolina sandhills: their natural distributions and performance of seeds and seedlings along complex ecological gradients |
| Vidra, Rebecca |
2000 M.S. |
Developing a landscape approach to ecological restoration |
| Crist, Rebecca |
1999 M.S. |
Man in the Forest: A critique of National Park Service forest management policy in Glacier National Park, Montana |
| Lambiase, Seth |
1999 M.A. |
Interspecific life history variation in the land snail genus Mesodon |
| White, Rickie |
1999 M.A. |
The impacts of Hurricane Fran on a North Carolina Piedmont woodland |
| D’Arconte, Patricia |
1998 M.A. |
The effect of different suburban housing densities on stream macroinvertebrate assemblages |
| Rollins, Sarah |
1997 M.A. |
Calcareous Glade Communities in the Central Basin of Tennessee: the effects of scale on community classification |
| Smith, Adam |
1996 M.A. |
Local versus regional processes in lotic macroinvertebrate communities: the control of species diversity across scales |
| Wilds, Stephanie |
1996 M.A. |
Gradient analysis of the distribution of flowering dogwood (Cornus florida L.) and dogwood anthracnose (Discula destructiva Redlin.) in western Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
| Thunhorst, Gwen |
1995 M.A. |
The Seed Bank as a Buffer to Change in Population Size, Distribution, and Genetic Composition in the Rare Plant Rhexia aristosa at Antioch Church Bay with Implications to Conservation |
| Taulbee, Keith |
1994 M.S. |
Incorporation of farm-level survey data into a GIS: preliminary analysis in the Pacayacu region, northeast Ecuador |
| Hart White, Merri |
1994 M.A. |
Patterns of movement of benthic macroinvertebrates: potential upstream effects of pollution |
| Clayton, |
1992 M.S. |
The question of Antarctica: environmental protection and international policy-making |
| Krolikowski, Suzanne |
1992 M.A. |
Interactions between bacteria, carbon, and chlorophyll a in an experimental freshwater ecosystem |
| Lovell, Jim |
1992 M.A. |
Fish Predation and Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in Two Third-Order Blackwater Streams, South Carolina |
| Carberry, Alice |
1991 Ph.D. |
Green-tree Impoundment and municipal sewage effects on abiotic phosphorus retention in a Piedmont bottomland wetland |
| Liu, Kwang-Cheng |
1991 M.A. |
Effects of ammonium:nitrate supply ratios on the outcome of phytoplankton resource competition |
| Palmer, Brian |
1991 M.A. |
Effects of ammonium:nitrate supply ratios on the outcome of phytoplankton resource competition |
| Margolis, Thomas |
1990 M.A. |
A history of land use changes in Sao Paulo, Brazil: the patterns and forces behind environmental degradation |
| Martinez, Martin |
1990 M.A. |
Municipal solid waste management in developing countries |
| Prescott, Christopher |
1988 M.A. |
Sources of predatory mortality in the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians: interactions with seagrass and epibiotic coverage |
| Edwards, |
1985 M.S. |
The distribution and abundance of epilithon in small woodland streams |
| Goldsmith, Abby |
1985 M.A. |
Ecological implications in biomonitoring water quality |
| Govert, |
1983 M.S. |
Biological diversity: its meaning, preservation and management |
| Kleer, Nancy |
1983 M.S. |
Terrestrial effects of acid deposition: a review of the evidence and policy considerations |
| Conlin, David |
1976 M.A. |
Distribution of benthic macroinvertebrates in a Mid-Atlantic Piedmont reservoir with localized effects due to sodium chloride and eutrophication |
| Kneib, Ronald |
1976 M.A. |
Feeding, reproduction, growth and movements of killifishes on a North Carolina salt marsh |
| McCurdy, Yolande |
1975 M.A. |
An ecosystematic analysis of the vegetation of Hanging Rock State Park, Danbury, North Carolina |