Student Projects

Previous Students

Ø      Cynthia Brundage and Constance Clay:  Decomposition of alien and native plant species in a urban forest fragment, Lake Forest, Illinois.

Ø      Carlton Rauschenberg:  A nutrient budget for a remnant tallgrass prairie in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Ø      Molly Martlin: Bringing the prairie indoors - soil biodiversity and ecosystem function of a prairie remnant.

Ø      Angela Opiola:  Bringing the prairie indoors - a contrast of prairie mesoscosms with and without microarthropods.

Ø      Gregory Cegielski: Nutrient dynamics along a hydrologic gradient in a restored wetland.

Ø      Lauren Umek: Abiotic-biotic factors controlling European Buckthorn along a wetland catena.

Ø      Jennifer Palasik: A digital face-book of microarthropods from Mary Mix McDonald Woods, Glenview, Illinois.

Ø      Karis McFarlane, Angela Opiola, Brad Bernau and Matthew Boor:  Baseline observations on decomposition in an Illinois woodland.

Ø      Kevin Grady: Insects communities along a gradient of productivity in a Illinois Tallgrass prairie.

Ø      Kevin Grady: Herbivory on invasive and native species in an Illinois woodlandd

Ø      Farrah Fatemi, Carlton Rauschenberg: European Buckthorn impacts on soil nutrient status in urban woodland fragments.

Ø      Brad Bernau: Is European Buckthorn an ecological trap?

Ø      Kristen Fagen: European earthworm impact on soil fertility and restoration potential of public lands

Ø      Jamie Iatropulos – Elevated decomposition rates associated with a non-native shrub in Midwestern woodlands – measured using a cotton strip assay

Ø      Melissa Bernhardt – Impact of invasive earthworms on nutrient mobilization in experimental mesocosms.

Ø      Evan Barker – Manipulating DOM inputs in buckthorn invaded patches – a novel control technique.