Shailendra Adhikary, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Donald Dickmann
Dissertation title: The long-term effects of low-intensity fires in a mature red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) plantation
Elizabeth Ball, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Andrew McAdam
Thesis title: Preferences and harvest intentions of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) hunters in Michigan: insights into harvesting behaviors and their outcomes
Katie Button-Simons, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Scott Peacor
Thesis title: Environmental dependence of non-consumptive effects in predator-prey interactions
Molly Conlin, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Merritt Turetsky
Thesis title: Soil hydroclimate, vegetation, and substrate controls on carbon flux in an Alaskan fen
Adam Goble, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Kay Holekamp
Thesis title: Signature signals in the territorial vocalizations of red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) and their use in kin recognition
Gabe Hamer, 2008, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Edward D. Walker
Dissertation Title: West Nile virus transmission ecology: vector-host interactions
Anna Jacobsen, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Frank Ewers
Dissertation title: Woody plant adaptations to water stress in arid shrub communities
Nicholas Johnson, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Weiming Li
Dissertation title: In-stream behavioral responses of female sea lampreys to pheromone components
Sarah LeSage, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: R. Jan Stevenson
Thesis title: Plan B - Special project: Nitrogenous biochemical oxygen demand and dissolved oxygen in western Michigan streams
Eva Lewandowski, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Thomas Getty
Thesis Title: The effects of pokeweed display characteristics on frugivore identity and fruit removal
Rodrigo Mercader, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Kim Scribner
Dissertation title: Climate change, species boundaries, and hybridization: how climate change may be leading to host use divergence in a native butterfly system
Sarah Neumann, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Richard Kobe
Dissertation title: Plant-soil feedbacks in temperate and tropical forests
Wiline Pangle (Trouilloud), 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Threat-sensitive behaviors and its ontogenetic development in top mammalian carnivores
Kevin Pangle, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Scott Peacor
Dissertation Title: The role of non-consumptive effects in the net effect of an invasive predator in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Kirsten Pelz-Stelinski, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Michael Kaufman/Edward Walker
Dissertation title: Mosquito production and microbial diversity in contair habitats
Susan Spaulding, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: David E. Rothstein
Thesis Title: Does clearcut harvesting emulate the effects of natural disturbance on the development of stand structure in Pinus banksiana forests of northern lower Michigan
Kevin Theis, 2008, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Scent marking in a highly social mammalian species, the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)
Lindsey Walters, 2008, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Thomas Getty
Dissertation Title: Mate quality and parental investment in the house wren
Kathryn Wharton Boes, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Zoology
Advisor: Tom Getty
Dissertation title: Queen and worker influence on sex allocation patterns in the honeybee, Apis mellifera
Rachel Williams, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: L. Alan Prather
Thesis title: Plan B, no title