Graduate Students:

Lisa Hibden, M.S. program in Biological Sciences. Thesis topic: Effect of the invasive plant species Triadia sebifera on soil and litter food webs.

Kathy Law, Ph.D. program in Conservation Biology. Dissertation topic: Effect of the invasive plant species Triadia sebifera on breeding and winter resident bird communities.

Zack Leman, M.S. program in Biological Sciences. Thesis topic: Linking nutrition and demography in the spider Kukulkania hibernalis.

Alejandro Lopera, Ph.D. program in Conservation Biology. Dissertation topic: Role of dung beetles in tropical forest regeneration.

Undergraduate Students:

Shahzadi Baloch (BIOS 3092) - Effect of the invasive plant species Triadia sebifera on soil and litter food webs – processing leaf litter for chemical and elemental analysis.

Thi Ngo (BIOS 3092) - Effect of the invasive plant species Triadia sebifera on soil and litter food webs – identification of insects in pitfall trap and Berlese funnel litter samples.

Shannon Ramirez (BIOS 2092) – Effect of crowding and distance on leaf fragment size selection by the leafcutting ant Atta cephalotes.

Ashley Lane (BIOS 2092)- Effect of the invasive plant species Triadia sebifera on soil and litter food webs – identification of seeds in litter samples and processing leaf litter samples for mass.

Hester Rito (BIOS 2092) - Effect of the invasive plant species Triadia sebifera on soil and litter food webs – identification of insects in pitfall trap and Berlese funnel litter samples.

Mike Wroten (BIOS 3092) – Effect of the invasive plant species Triadia sebifera on soil and litter food webs – collection and processing field samples.

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