Ecology Center

Martyn Caldwell
Remembering Martyn Caldwell

Professor emeritus of USU's Quinney College of Natural Resources, and former Ecology Center Director, passes away at 80 years old.

 

Students and Faculty Presenting at ESA, August 2-6, 2021

Talks & Sessions

Binod Borah, BIOLFrugivore foraging decisions influence seed dispersal patterns, Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/RrmBAv
Jessica Murray, BIOL:  The vulnerability of canopy soil to accelerated carbon losses under climate change, Monday August 2, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/QM8nyA
Mark Brunson, ENVS: Factors influencing emergance of anthropogenic ecotones in undeveloped landscapes, Tuesday, August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/E3vPDR
Above and belowground resource patterns assocaited with sagebrush islands of fertility in the Intermountain West, Wednesday August 4, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/xvxMKz
Peter Adler, WILD: Ecosystem adaptation is the dominant source of uncertainty in projections of rangeland production responses to climate change, Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/3wqYPE
Climate drives dryland plant response to disturbance: A lesson from natural gas pipeline corridors, Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/5mqXPx
Progress and peril in model-based ecology, Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/q9YjW6
Climate dictates the effects of increased drought and physical disturbance on dryland and soil biogeochemistry, Wednesday August 4, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/93YrXj
Linking population dynamics to ecosystems: Identifying controls of ANPP sensitivity to precipitation in dryland ecosystems, Wednesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/E3vrBa
Forecasting fine fuels in the Intermountain West Wednesday August 4, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/7rvy7r

Andrew Felton, WILD: cosystem adaptation is the dominant source of uncertainty in projections of rangeland production responses to climate change, Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/3wqYPE
Martin Holdrege, WILDResponses of sagebrush-dominated ecosystems to increased precipitation intensity, Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/Yk3jzX
Sofia Koutzoukis, WILD: Above and belowground resource patterns assocaited with sagebrush islands of fertility in the Intermountain West, Wednesday August 4, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/xvxMKz
Danielle Berger, WILDFrom individual space-use patterns to metapopulation dynamics: A conceptual framework Wednesday August 4, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/5mqXR6
Jennifer Reeve, PSCOrchard floor management for improved tree growth and soil health in organic peach systems Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/gQ6G98
Guopeng Liang, BIOLNitrogen effects on plant productivity change and decadal timescales Wednesday August 4, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/xvxGB7
John Draper, WATSCoyotes as effective seed dispersers: an experimental evaluation of gut passage time and seed viability of 3 fruits commonly consumed by coyotes Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/nQ7jLb
Kezia Manlove, WILDUnpacking the interplay between spatial and social drivers of movement in a large herbivore along a latitudinal life-history cline Wednesday August 4, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/RrmQYY
Environmental context and host life-histories in shaping pathogen transfer Thursday August 5, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/5mqGYk
Mira Ensley-Field, WILD
: Forecasting fine fuels in the Intermountain West Wednesday August 4, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/7rvy7r
Tyson Terry, WILDClimate drives dryland plant resppnse to disturbance: A lesson from natural gas pipeline corridors Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/5mqXPx

Posters

Jacob Larkin, BIOLAnalyzing fatal bird-window collisions occurring on USU's C&SS Building, Brigham City, Utah Tuesday August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/abyvQW
Savannah Adkins, BIOL: Nitrogen limitation and acidification: Reconciling soil organic matter responses to fertilization through microbial physiology, soil minerology, and soil acidity Monday August 2, 2021
Valerie Martin, BIOLMoving on up: Upslope migration of subalpine bees alters the structure and dynamics of an alpine bumblebee network Tuesday, August 3, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/v9DKrG
Aidan Beers, WILD: Greater sage-grouse use of thermal refugia on their warm range margin Thursday August 5, 2021 https://cdmcd.co/WkzLrK

 

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