Cindy Adkins, 2004, MS
MSU Department: Department of Anthropology
Advisor: Jodie O'Gorman
Thesis title: Introduction of Zea Mays into southwestern Michigan: A microenvironmental study of plant/human relationships
Mara Bryan, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Weiming Li
Dissertation title: Unusual sex steroids in lampreys
Kendra Cheruvelil, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Orlando Soranno
Dissertation title: Examining lakes at multiple spatial scales: predicting fish growth, macrophyte cover and lake physio-chemical variables
Jessica Cook, 2004, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Andy Jarosz
Thesis title: Effects of pollen limitation, resource limitation, and disease on the reproductive biology and growing season of Arisaema triphllum
Tara Darcy-Hall, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title: Linking gradients of predators and productivity to the composition and limitation of benthic algal communities
Leslie Dethlefsen, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor: Thomas Schmidt
Dissertation title: Translational power differs between bacteria pursuing different ecological strategies
Stephanie Dloniak, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Socioendocrinology of spotted hyenas: patterns of androgen and glucocorticoid excretion in a unique social system
Natalie Dubois, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Tom Getty
Dissertation title: Opportunities for polygymy and reproductive investment decisions in house wrens
Erik Foster, 2004, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Edward Walker
Thesis title: Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi in Southwest Michigan: population ecology and verification of a geographic risk model
Kristen Genet, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Tom Burton
Dissertation title: Status and distribution of frogs and toads in southern Michigan: population trends and the influence of habitat and landscape characteristics
Gregory Houseman, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Kay Gross
Dissertation title: Local and regional effects on plant diversity: the influence of species pools, colonizer traits and productivity
Sara Kaiser, 2004, MS
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Catherine Lindell
Thesis title: Effect of proximity to forest edges on nestling growth and nest survival of wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) in Southwestern Michigan
Kathleen Kay, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Dug Schemske
Dissertation title: The evolution of floral characters and reproductive isolation in neotropical Costus (Costaceae)
Jessie Keith, 2004, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Alan Prather
Thesis title: Monarda section Cheilyctis: patterns of speciation, endemism and implications on conservation
Lesley Knoll, 2004, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Orlando Sarnelle
Thesis title: Understanding zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) impacts on autotrophic and heterotrophic plankton in inland lake ecosystems
Ann Krause, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: William Taylor
Dissertation title: The role of compartments in food-web structure and changes following biological invasions in southeast Lake Michigan
Ian Ramjohn, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Peter Murphy
Dissertation title: The role of disturbed Caribbean dry forest fragments in the survival of native plant diversity
Nathan Siegert, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Deborah McCullough
Dissertation title: Meteorological factors affecting the success of the gypsy moth fungal pathogen Entomophaga maimaiga (Zygomycetes: Entomophthorales) in Michigan
Michelle Smith, 2004, MS
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Catherine Lindell
Thesis title: Edge effects on avian and mammalian nest predator relative abundance and species richness
Eric Thobaben, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Steve Hamilton
Dissertation title: Linking plant communities and environmental variables in southwest Michigan wetlands
Skip Van Bloem, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Peter Murphy
Dissertation title: Multiple scale patterns in growth and structure of subtropical dry forests: soils, trees, and hurricanes
Sofia Wahaj, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Kay Holekamp
Dissertation title: Multiple scale patterns in growth and structure of subtropical dry forests: soils, trees, and hurricanes
Cynthia Wei, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Fred Dyer
Dissertation title: Investing in learning: studies of learning flights in honeybees, Apil mellifera
Jeremy Wojdak, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title: Species interactions and the functioning of pond ecosystems