Valerie Brady, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Thomas Burton
Dissertation title: Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in a great lakes coastal marsh: Population dynamics and effects on the invertebrates
Elizabeth Capaldi Evans, 1996, PhD.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Fred C. Dyer
Dissertation Title: Acquisition of visual spatial memory on orientation and reorientation flights in the honey bee
M. Sean Clark, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Stuart Gage
Dissertation title: An evaluation of domestic chickens and geese as biological control agents for insect pests and weeds
Beth Dankert, 1996, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Dan Herms
Thesis title: Effects of defoliation, drought, and fertilization on the expression of paper birch and sugar maple resistance to insect folivores
Jeff Dickinson, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Fred C. Dyer
Dissertation title: How do bees compute the position of the sun? Alternative representations
Brian Dunphy, 1996, MS
MSU Department: Department of Botany
Advisor: Peter Murphy
Thesis title: The multiple-stemmed growth form of trees in a subtropical dry forest
Cathy Fiegel, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Harold Prince
Dissertation title: Genetic heterogeneity and differentiation resulting from sichuan pheasant (Phasianus colchicus strauchi) introduction in southern Michigan
Brian Foster, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Botany
Advisor: Kay Gross
Dissertation title: Plant competition and diversity in relation to productivity in old-field plant communities
Kevin Geedey, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Alan Tessier
Dissertation title: Seasonal clonal succession in Daphnia pulicaria populations
Casey Huckins, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title: Interpreting the functional relationships between morphology, feeding performance, diet and competitive ability in mollusciouvous sunfish
John Jenkins, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title: Systematic studies of Rhagoletis and related genera (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Yining Luo, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Donald Straney
Dissertation title: A systematic and biogeographic study of the bat genus Rhinolophus (chiroptera: Rhinolophadae)
Emily Lyons, 1996, MS
MSU Department: Department of Botany
Advisor: Andrew Jarosz
Thesis title: Geographic distribution of Silene latifolia and its anther-smut pathogen Microbotrym Violaceum in the eastern United States
Poco Moore, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Stephen Tonsor
Dissertation title: Assessing the viability of the shifting balance process
Brad White, 1996, MS
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Richard Hill
Thesis title: The ontogeny of brown adipose tissue in Microtus ochrogaster in various thermal and social environments
Timothy Work, 1996, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Deb McCullough
Thesis title: The impact of severe gypsy moth defoliation on native insects in two northern Michigan ecosystems