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College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Explore our collection of dissertations, master's theses and master's reports from the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science below.

On November 20, 2019 the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science became the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science.

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2024 2024

ASSESSING TROPICAL MAMMAL DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION USING NONINVASIVE METHODS, Tiff L. DeGroot

COLOMBIA´S NATIONAL MOUNTAIN PEATLAND MAP: PEATLAND DISTRIBUTION, CONDITION AND CARBON STOCKS, Patrick Nicolas Skillings-Neira

CONTRIBUTION OF THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RED NAC TO LOW NITROGEN PHENOTYPES IN POPLAR, Shane Alexander Spence

DIVERGENT RESPONSE TO ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGE WITHIN THE SONGBIRD TAXON: INSIGHTS FROM THE RANGE EXPANSION OF THE NORTHERN CARDINAL AND MITIGATION MECHANISMS FOR MIGRATORY BIRD-BUILDING COLLISIONS, Jenna Brewer

GIS-BASED LANDSCAPE PRIORITIZATION TO GUIDE INVASIVE SPECIES SURVEY, Erin R. Mauk

HYDROLOGIC PATHWAYS OF A NORTHERN HARDWOOD CATCHMENT IN THE GREAT LAKES BASIN USING END MEMBER MIXING ANALYSIS, Cory C. Burkwald

RESTORATION IS REPAIRING RELATIONSHIPS: BRIDGING INDIGENOUS AND WESTERN SCIENCES TO ASSESS THE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF WILD RICE (ZIZANIA PALUSTRIS) ON KEWEENAW BAY INDIAN COMMUNITY HOMELANDS, Cassandra M. Reed-VanDam

SILPHID AND CARABID BEETLES IN AN EXPERIMENTAL FOREST TRIAL: iDNA AND DIETS, AND INSECT-HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS CAN BETTER INFORM FOREST MANAGEMENT, Katherine E. Higdon

THE EFFECTS OF EXPERIMENTAL WARMING ON ROOT RESPIRATION AND THE FUNGAL COMMUNITY OF TROPICAL FOREST SOIL, Malik A. Sankofa

UNDERSTANDING THE CONTROLS OF SEASONAL STREAM TEMPERATURE AND HYDROLOGICAL MONITORING OF FORESTED WATERSHEDS IN THE WESTERN UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN, Eli A. Paulen

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2023 2023

CHARACTERIZATION OF VERNAL POOLS ACROSS NATIONAL PARKS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION, Samantha R. Kurkowski

COMPARING THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF LETHAL AND NON-LETHAL CONTROL OF WOLF DEPREDATION ON SHEEP IN SOUTHERN IDAHO, Nathan M. Coleman

FINDING UTILITY IN HISTORIC MAPS: HOW GEORECTIFICATION CAN ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF LONG-TERM LANDCOVER CHANGES, Olivia Czajka

FINE ROOT RESPIRATION IN QUERCUS RUBRA IS INFLUENCED BY MULTIDIMENSIONAL TRADE-OFFS IN ROOT TRAIT SPACE, Emma L. Shedd

IMPACTS OF INTRODUCED EARTHWORMS ON SUGAR MAPLE SAP CHEMISTRY AND THE DISCOURSE OF INVASION ECOLOGY, Shelby Nicole Lane-Clark

INVASIVE BUCKTHORN MAPPING: A UAV-BASED APPROACH UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING, GIS, AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES IN THE UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN, Vikranth Madeppa

MOOSE (ALCES ALCES) HERBIVORY IS THE MAIN DRIVER OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN THE NITROGEN AND CARBON CONTENT OF BALSAM FIR FOLIAGE, Jasmine Fairbanks Terry-Shindelman

NEAR-SURFACE SOIL NITROGEN AND VEGETATION RESPONSE TO INVASIVE EMERALD ASH BORER IN FORESTED BLACK ASH WETLANDS OF THE WESTERN UPPER PENINSULA, MICHIGAN, USA, Daniel A. Beyer

QUANTIFICATION OF WOOD-CARBON TRANSFER TO SOIL ORGANIC MATTER POOLS – DISTRIBUTION AND FORMS, Samuel Mensah Opoku

SEQUENCING ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPTOME OF POPULUS THROUGH ANTISENSE/SENSE TRANSCRIPT PAIR ENRICHMENT, Emma V. Burke

SILVICULTURE, SEEDS, AND DEER: ASSESSING GROUND-LAYER DIVERSITY ALONG EXPERIMENTAL DISTURBANCE GRADIENTS IN A MANAGED NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST, Claudia I. Bartlick

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF WOOD: FROM PYROGRAPHY TO TERMITES AND WOOD DECOMPOSITION, Joanna D. Walitalo

TROPICAL PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO EXPERIMENTAL WARMING AND HURRICANE DISTURBANCE, Robert Tunison

Two Research Perspectives on Sugar Maple Canopy Dieback in the Upper Great Lakes: A Decade of Herbaceous Community Responses and a Survey of Michigan Forest Managers, Manuel Eduardo Anderson

WHITE-TAILED DEER IN A WINTER-WONDERLAND: LONG-TERM DEER YARD USE AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR UNGULATE FECAL DNA METABARCODING, Melanie A. Ottino

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2022 2022

AVIAN HAEMOSPORIDIAN BLOOD PARASITE DIVERSITY, PREVALENCE, AND DISTRIBUTION IN MICHIGAN’S WESTERN UPPER PENINSULA, Maria M. Ferrer

CHARACTERIZING DROUGHT ADAPTATIONS, PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY, AND FIXED GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS WITHIN QUERCUS, James K. Rauschendorfer

Common garden study reveals frost-tolerant, generalist northern seed sources are best suited to expand range of Quercus rubra, Emily Lindback

Conservation value of working landscapes in Mesoamerica for Nearctic-neotropical migratory birds, Samuel L. Oliveira

DECADAL REEVALUATION OF SUGAR MAPLE DIEBACK ETIOLOGY ACROSS THE UPPER GREAT LAKES REGION, Mattison E. Brady

DEVELOPMENT AND UTILIZATION OF GEODATABASE: PREDICTING BIODIVERSITY IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA, AFRICA, Nicholas Treusch

Display site selection by male ruffed grouse in the upper Great Lakes region, Seth Finkel

EFFECTS OF DISSIMILAR SILVICULTURAL TECHNIQUES ON SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES IN MICHIGAN'S UPPER PENINSULA, Breanna R. Gusick

FINE SCALE MAPPING OF LAURENTIAN MIXED FOREST NATURAL HABITAT COMMUNITIES USING MULTISPECTRAL NAIP AND UAV DATASETS COMBINED WITH MACHINE LEARNING METHODS, Parth P. Bhatt

Forested Wetland Mitigation: Developing Techniques to Restore Northern White-Cedar on Clay Settling Areas in Northern Michigan, Sean R. Westley

IMPACT OF SHADECLOTH PRESENCE, STAKE DIAMETER, AND STAKE LENGTH ON SURVIVAL RATE OF SALIX BEBBIANA AND SALIX PETIOLARIS LIVE STAKES AT A WETLAND RESTORATION SITE, Rachael Wilber

INDIVIDUAL TREE PARAMETERS DELINEATION FROM TERRESTRIAL LIDAR POINT CLOUDS, Zhongming An

PROPERTIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF SUSTAINABLE ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITES OF CARBONIZED PULP FIBERS AND RECYCLED POLYAMIDE 12, Chinmoyee Das

RECOVERING AND UPGRADING KRAFT LIGNIN FOR APPLICATION IN FLEXIBLE POLYURETHANE FOAM, Peng Quan

Senescence related pathologies in moose (Alces alces) bones: why do some moose wear out their teeth faster or slower given their age?, Olivia Marie Bailey

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2021 2021

Assessing the Utility of a Native Wood-Decomposing Fungus as a Biocontrol Alternative to Herbicides on Invasive Buckthorns in Forests of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, Lindsey Dolinski

DEVELOPMENT OF A PROPAGATION PROGRAM FOR BEECH BARK DISEASE-RESISTANT AMERICAN BEECH (FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA) AND AN APPLIED RESTORATION PLAN FOR MITIGATION OF BEECH BARK DISEASE, Ande Myers

ELUCIDATING PEATLAND DISTURBANCE ECOLOGY AND CARBON DYNAMICS THROUGH THE LENS OF SOIL USING INFRARED SPECTROMETRY, Dominic Uhelski

Estimating red wolf ancestry in a population of canids on Galveston Island, Texas, Tanner Barnes

EVALUATING LONG-TERM GROWTH AND YIELD IN UPPER GREAT LAKES REGION NORTHERN HARDWOODS CUTTING TRIALS, Maeve Draper

Impacts of forest tax programs on property tax rates in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin, Elsa Schwartz

Landscape Ecology of North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Stacy Cotey

Mapping Michigan's Historic Coastlines, Ryan A. Williams

Metagenomic Identification and Classification of the Mercury-Methylating Gene hgcA in Response to Water Table and Plant Functional Group Manipulations in Peat Soil, Madeline Peterson

REGENERATION PATTERNS IN SILVICULTURAL OPENINGS OF WESTERN GREAT LAKES NORTHERN HARDWOOD FORESTS 15-24 YEARS POST-HARVEST, Matthew S. VanderMolen

REGIONAL IMPACTS OF INVASIVE SPECIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON BLACK ASH WETLANDS, Joseph Shannon

UNDERSTANDING GIIZHIK COMMUNITIES AND ANISHINAABE FOREST RELATIONS IN THE EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN, Robin Michigiizhigookwe Clark

UNDERSTORY DYNAMICS ACROSS 62-YEARS OF A NORTHERN HARDWOOD MANAGEMENT GRADIENT STUDY, Heidi Harmala

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2020 2020

ADAPTING ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR A VIRTUAL SPACE, Jennifer Klemm

BONDING HARDWOOD LUMBER FOR CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER: PROPERTIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, Munkaila Musah

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER MOVEMENT ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR’S TERRESTRIAL-STREAM-COASTAL INTERFACE, Karl M. Meingast

GIS-BASED TRENDING ANALYSIS OF CROPLAND ASSOCIATED WITH RIPARIAN FROM 2008 TO 2018 IN WISCONSIN, Yanyun Li

LIVESTOCK-WILDLIFE DYNAMICS AND SUBSEQUENT HUMAN RESPONSES IN MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES WITHIN MEXICO’S NATIONALLY PROTECTED AREAS, Deanna Seil

MONITORING MAMMAL COMMUNITY SHIFTS ACROSS SILVICULTURAL TREATMENTS UTILIZING CAMERA TRAPS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INVERTEBRATE- DERIVED DNA IN HARDWOOD FORESTS OF NORTH AMERICA, Shallen Gurtler

PEAT VOLUME LOSS IN THE DITCHES OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA, Liam Krause

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CREATE WINDFALL OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT OF MIXED NORTHERN HARDWOODS, Elizabeth Montgomery Barnes

SOIL SUSTAINABILITY OF FOREST BIOENERGY FEEDSTOCKS ACROSS THE AMERICAS, Michelle Brill

THE INFLUENCE OF LANDFORMS AND SAMPLING APPROACHES ON RIPARIAN BUFFER AREA AND COMPLEXITY, Houjun Ding

THE INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF MICROTOPOGRAPHY AND HYDROLOGY ON GROUND LAYER VEGETATION AND SOIL GAS FLUX RESPONSES TO A SIMULATED EMERALD ASH BORER INFESTATION IN BLACK ASH WETLANDS, Elisabeth Stimmel

Understanding the Mechanisms Controlling the Concentration-Discharge Relationships of Streams in Northeastern and North Midwestern United States, Veronica Porter

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2019 2019

ARE THE EFFECTS OF ECOSYSTEM NITROGEN SATURATION, INDUCED BY CHRONIC SIMULATED N DEPOSITION, RAPIDLY REVERSIBLE?, Jeffrey M. Selan

ASSESSING SOIL COMPACTION FOLLOWING A WINTER TIMBER HARVEST IN THE WESTERN UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN, Rafia Rahman

BIOGEOCHEMICAL RESPONSE TO VEGETATION AND HYDROLOGIC CHANGE IN AN ALASKAN BOREAL FEN ECOSYSTEM, Danielle L. Rupp

ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF TROPICAL WOODY SPECIES TO AMBIENT AND ELEVATED TEMPERATURES, Kelsey R. Carter

EXAMINING ASPEN EXPANSION FROM BEFORE AND AFTER PRESCRIBED BURNING IN A NATIVE FESCUE GRASSLAND THROUGH GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES, Christopher Anderson

Formative Interests and Pathways to Natural Resources Careers Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Laura Burmann

HARVEST INTENSITY AND DELINEATION OF OUTWASH SOILS IN WISCONSIN, Robert Richard

LIQUEFACTION OF RECYCLED CREOSOTE-TREATED RAILROAD TIES AND THE CHARACTERIZATION AND DECAY RESISTANCE OF THE LIGNIN-CREOSOTE FRACTION (LIGNISOTE™), Lucy Wang

Northern Hardwood Silviculture: Preferences among Family Forest Owners in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Alexander C. Helman

Perceptions of Forest Change in the Governmental Region of Kaffrine, Senegal, Rhiley E. Allbee

Plant community response to novel silvicultural treatments in Great Lakes northern hardwoods, Stefan F. Hupperts

Reexamining the Utility of Existing Climate Adaptation Frameworks Through Application on a Northern Forest, Alexander Rice

SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN WINTER SEVERITY: CONSEQUENCES FOR WHITE-TAILED DEER POPULATIONS AND HABITAT SUSTAINABILITY, Grace Parikh

THE CHARACTERIZATION OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED BIOMASS, Yasar Selim Bostanci

The effects of group-selection openings on regeneration composition in conventionally managed northern hardwoods, Sam Knapp

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2018 2018

ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS AND CARBON ESTIMATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FORESTS IN TURKEY, Cuma Uykun

ALGORITHMS FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS FROM HIGH -THROUGHPUT GENE EXPRESSION DATA, Wenping Deng

ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF FORAGING AND LIFE-HISTORY IN THREE COLD-ADAPTED SPECIES, Andrew Von Duyke

ESTIMATION OF DBH USING TREE VARIABLES DERIVED FROM AERIAL LiDAR FOR FORD FOREST, BARAGA, MICHIGAN, Tugay Demiraslan

MAPPING COASTAL WETLAND AND PHRAGMITES ON THE HIAWATHA NATIONAL FOREST USING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (UAS) IMAGERY: PROOF OF CONCEPTS, Parth Bhatt

Molecular Biogeochemistry of a Poor Fen, Zhimin Song

NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF SALVAGE WHITE SPRUCE, Tyler Hovde

Quantitative Genetics of Populus, Roba Bdeir

THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF FORAGE PREFERENCE AND MICROHISTOLOGICAL ATLAS, John J. Henderson

THE EFFECT OF WATER TABLE LEVELS AND SHORT-TERM DITCH RESTORATION ON MOUNTAIN PEATLAND CARBON CYCLING IN THE CORDILLERA BLANCA, PERU, Ana Maria Planas Clarke

USING RANDOM FOREST MODELING TO PREDICT EARTHWORM DISTRIBUTION IN THE OTTAWA NATIONAL FOREST, Megan Cleaver

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2017 2017

ASSESSING GROWTH, YIELD, AND CARBON DYNAMICS IN UPPER GREAT LAKES JACK PINE AND HYBRID POPLAR MANAGED FOR BIOMASS PRODUCTION, Ashlee Baker Lehner

CHARACTERIZATION OF ECOLOGICAL WATER STRESS IN THE U.S. GREAT LAKES REGION USING A GEOSPATIAL MODELING APPROACH, Sara Alian

CHARACTERIZATION OF GENIC MICROSATELLITE MARKERS (EST-SSRS) IN THE ENDANGERED OAK SPECIES QUERCUS GEORGIANA M.A.CURTIS, Priyanka Dipak Kadav

DEVELOPMENT OF BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS AND ALGORITHMS FOR IDENTIFYING PATHWAY REGULATORS, INFERRING GENE REGULATORY RELATIONSHIPS AND VISUALIZING GENE EXPRESSION DATA, Chathura J. Gunasekara

DEVELOPMENT OF GENE-BASED MICROSATELLITE MARKERS IN Acer saccharum MARSH., Monica Harmon

DYNAMICS OF WILD RED RASPBERRY (RUBUS IDAEUS L.) AND THE INFLUENCE ON TREE REGENERATION WITHIN SILVICULTURAL OPENINGS IN A NORTHERN HARDWOOD STAND, Matthew J. Widen

EFFECTS OF GROUP SELECTION WITH YELLOW BIRCH (BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS) RETENTION ON THE UNDERSTORY AND SAPLING LAYER IN NORTHERN HARDWOOD FORESTS, Megan A. Petras O'Neil

EFFECTS OF IN-SITU LEAF-LEVEL CANOPY WARMING IN A NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST, Kelsey Carter

EFFECTS OF POST-FIRE SALVAGE LOGGING ON COMPACTION, INFILTRATION, WATER REPELLENCY, AND SEDIMENT YIELD AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUBSOILING ON SKID TRAILS, Iskender Demirtas