Students
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- Lab
- Clark
- Thesis
- Rattlesnake responses to pursuit-deterrent signals from California ground squirrels
- Interests
- Predator-prey interactions between rattlesnakes and ground squirrels
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Reef fish population dynamics
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- Lab
- Oechel
- Thesis
- Importance of Lateral Carbon Flux to the Carbon Budget of a Larrea/Cardn Ecosystem near La Paz BCS, Mexico
- Interests
- Vertical and lateral carbon flux in desert ecosystems
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- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- Influence of the harvesting process on the community ecology and alginate quality of kelps in California and Chile: implications for a sustainable resource
- Interests
- Sustainable harvesting of kelp in Southern California and Chile
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- Lab
- Lipson
- Thesis
- Impacts of invasive plant species on nitrogen cycling and soil microbial communities in coastal sage scrub
- Interests
- Plant invasions and plant-microbial interactions
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- Lab
- Deutschman
- Thesis
- selective seed predation and its effects on the interaction between native and exotic plants in coastal sage scrub communities in San Diego county
- Interests
- conservation ecology
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- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- Ecology and genetics of the delayed microscopic stages of kelp
- Interests
- effects of environmental factors on kelp
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Community ecology of marine ecosystems; marine reserves
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- spatial distribution, reproductive behavior, and dispersal processes of pink abalone (Haliotis corrugata) and their potential for recovery and the optimization of restoration techniques in southern California
- Interests
- marine population dynamics, dispersal
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- Lab
- Hentschel
- Thesis
- Effects of Water Flow on the Accumulation and Toxicity of Metals in the Interface-Feeding Estuarine Polychaete, Polydora cornuta
- Interests
- effects of flow and toxicity on polychaete ecology
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Marine fish larval connectivity and population dynamics
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- Lab
- Williams
- Thesis
- Thorne's hairstreak butterfly relationship with its host plant (Cupressus forbesii)
- Interests
- larval biology of butterflies
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- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- Effects of food availability on sea urchin reproductive cycles
- Interests
- marine algae and invertebrates
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- LaKenya Evans
- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- Bioaccumulation of pollutants in marine algae and its effects on trophic interactions
- Interests
- marine plants and algae, effects of pollutants in marine systems
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- Lab
- Lewison
- Thesis
- Sea Turtle Conservation Ecology, specifically pertaining to hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the eastern Pacific Ocean
- Interests
- conservation and ecology of sea turtles
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- Lab
- Lewison
- Thesis
- Microhabitat selection of desert tortoises post translocation
- Interests
- Conservation of desert tortoises and desert habitat
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- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- Kelp community dynamics in response to climate shifts
- Interests
- climate change, marine algae
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- Lab
- Clark
- Thesis
- Maternal attendance of young in rattlesnakes: costs, benefits, and underlying physiological mechanisms
- Interests
- Ecology and evolutionary biology of reptiles and amphibians
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- Biogeographic variation in top-down control of community structure in temperate subtidal reefs
- Interests
- Marine community ecology, biogeography, predation ecology
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- Lab
- Lewison
- Thesis
- Disease and Fire in an Urbanizing Chapparral Ecosystem: exploring linkages in bobcat populations
- Interests
- Applied conservation, carnivore ecology, fire ecology
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- Evaluating eelgrass habitat quality by the performance of recreationally important fishes
- Interests
- Recruitment, growth, and survival of fishes in nursery habitats
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- Lab
- Lewison and Bohonak
- Thesis
- Population dynamics of two pelagic shark species (short fin mako and common thresher): a molecular and mathematical approach
- Interests
- conservation of pelagic ecosystems and the effects of human impacts on oceanic predators
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- Lab
- Lewison
- Thesis
- Comtaminant levels and potential health effects in East Pacific green turtles in San Diego Bay, CA
- Interests
- effects of pollutants on fitness of sea turtles
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- Lab
- Oechel
- Thesis
- Annual carbon budget for the Alaskan Arctic tundra
- Interests
- seasonal and spatial controls on carbon exchange
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- Predation by fishes in seagrass beds: do trophic manipulations result in cascading effects?
- Interests
- direct and indirect effects of predators on their prey and on primary production
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- Lab
- Hentschel
- Thesis
- In-situ growth rates of the interface-feeding polychaete Polydora cornuta in the Tijuana estuary
- Interests
- Influence of hydrodynamics, tidal elevation, and Spartina on polychaete growth rates
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- Lab
- Deutschman
- Thesis
- Mesopredator movement within the Santa Ana-Palomar Mountains linkage
- Interests
- animal dispersal and movement, population and landscape genetics, conservation and land use change
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Predator-prey relationships and factors influencing recruitment of fishes
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- The effects of predators and habitat on sea urchin density in Southern California kelp forests
- Interests
- Trophic interactions in marine communities
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- Lab
- Lewison
- Thesis
- Sea Turtle population models: Evaluating the importance of spatial structure
- Interests
- conservation ecology, sea turtle biology
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- Lab
- Hentschel
- Thesis
- Biomagnification of toxins from plastic pollution in marine organisms
- Interests
- effects of pollutants on marine organisms
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- Lindsey Sala
- Lab
- Hentschel
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- Lab
- Clark
- Thesis
- Thermoregulatory behavior of the Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog
- Interests
- conservation ecology and animal behavior
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- Lab
- Clark and Bohonak
- Thesis
- Management of the endangered San Diego fairy shrimp (Branchinecta sandiegonensis) populations facing the threat of hybridization with the Versatile Fairy Shrimp (Branchinecta lindahli).
- Interests
- conservation ecology, vernal pools
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- Lab
- Regan
- Thesis
- Minimum data requirements for robust trend estimates
- Interests
- The use of population modeling to assess conservation status of threatened species
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- Lab
- Oechel
- Thesis
- Carbon dioxide and methane flux in arctic Alaska
- Interests
- climate change and greenhouse gases
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- Effects of seagrass habitat structure on predator-prey interactions in seagrass habitat
- Interests
- predator-prey interactions, ecology of marine habitats
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- Guillermo Torres
- Lab
- Edwards
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- Lab
- Deutschman
- Thesis
- Abiotic limitation of invasive plant species in the high salt marsh
- Interests
- invasivespecies and estuarine ecology
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Interests
- Fish ecophysiology
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- Movement and habitat use of the California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus
- Interests
- Marine invertebrate behavior, ecology, and conservation
