Student Research in Dr. T'ai Roulston's Lab

Yeamans, Rebecca (Ph.D.) Plant-Insect Interactions
Malfi, Rosemary (Ph.D.) Plant-Pollinator Interactions
Julier, Esther (M.S. 2007) Effect of Tillage Practices on Ground Nesting Bees on Pumpkin Farms
Ghent, Rachel (M.S. 2008) The Effect of Intercropping on Plant Herbivory
Van Dyke, Maria (M.S. 2009) Effects of Land Management on Ground Nesting Pollinators

RECENT UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS
(Through NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program)
2009 Rivera, Ricardo; University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon. What's eating you? How predators, parasitoids and cannibals combine to suppress populations of the herbivore Lema daturaphila
2009 Stanonik, Timothy; University of Virginia. Investigations into the life history and impact of a lepidopteran frugivore
2009 Yeary, Hollace; Kent State University. Are plant-pollinator interactions mediated by defensive chemistry?
2008 Meier, Linnea; Earlham College. The effects of isolation and plant population size on host-specialist interactions and plant fitness in two species of Physalis (Solanaceae)
2008 Soper, Alysha; Luther College. The effects of the tachinid, Myiopharus infernalis, on the population dynamics of Lema daturaphila (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
2007 Lingbeek, Brandon; Calvin College. Why does the population of the specialist herbivore, Lema daturaphila, decline as its host plant, Physalis longifolia, becomes more abundant?
2006 Jones, Cedric; Howard University. Host plant choice in Lema trilinea: Is host plant relatedness more important than structural similarity to a specialist herbivore
2005 Elstein, Jacob; Virginia Tech. Shared Herbivory Amongst Solanaceous Species and Pollen Limitation in the Context of Herbivory
2005 Triska, Maggie; Viterbo University. Sexual Success of Isolated Clonal Plant Populations
2004 McCauley, Mary; Berea College. Do Specialist Pollinators Contribute Anything Special to Generalist Plants?
2003 Farris, Grace; Brown University. Foraging dynamics of the Squash Bee (Peponapis pruinosa) on squash (Cucurbita pepo)
2003 Shuler, Rachel; Oberlin College. Farming for bees: pollination as ecosystem service
2002 Brewster, Amanda; Yale University. Pollinator response to floral resource depletion: a community level study
2002 Smith, Stephen; Sarah Lawrence College. Floral visitation rates among co-flowering species: a community level study

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROJECTS
2006 Allen, Gretchen Sherando High School. A Key To The Metallic Green Halictid Bees of Blandy Experimental Farm

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