Graduate Students
 
  Eric A. Miller

The dynamics of forest-meadow ecotones in the Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon: variation across environmental gradients

  MS, 1995
  Ann L. Lezberg Survival of herbaceous species after canopy closure:  role of below-ground traits
  MS, 1998
  Eric W. Beach   Conifer regeneration in managed riparian forests: effects of seed source, substrate, landform, and vegetation
  MS, 1999
  Melissa Borsting   Effects of thinning and prescribed fire on understory vegetation in ponderosa pine forests of northeastern California
  MS, 2002
  Richy J. Harrod   Demography and disturbance ecology of Iliamna longisepala and Trifolium thompsonii, two endemic species of the Wenatchee Mountains, Washington
  PhD, 2003
  Cara R. Nelson   Effects of timber harvest and forest edges on abundance, viability, and physiology of understory plants in Pseudotsuga forests of western Washington
  PhD, 2004
 

James A. Lutz

  The contribution of mortality to early coniferous forest development   MS, 2005

 

 

Troy D. Heithecker   Variation in microclimate associated with dispersed-retention harvests in coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest
  MS, 2005
  Nicole L. Lang   The soil seed bank of an Oregon montane meadow: consequences of conifer encroachment and implications for restoration
 

MS, 2006

  Ryan D. Haugo   Vegetation responses to conifer encroachment in a dry, montane meadow, western Cascade Range, Oregon
  MS, 2006
  Laura J. Six   Substrate effects on distribution, biomass allocation, and morphology of forest understory plants   MS, 2007
  Aldo Compagnoni   Controls on plant species invasions during early secondary succesion: the roles of plant origin and community properties   MS, 2008
  Karen Webster   Effects of prescribed fire on understory vegetation in mixed-conifer forests of the southern Sierra Nevada, California
  MS, 2010
  Ryan D. Haugo   Causes and consequences of conifer invasion into Pacific Northwest grasslands
  PhD, 2010
  Kelsey M. Ketcheson   Vegetation responses to ecological thinning of dense coniferous forests in the Cedar River Watershed, western Washington
  MS, 2011
  Allison K. Rossman   Metrics for measuring the effectiveness of forest restoration treatnents: the role of time and space   MS, in progress
  Brendan J. Whyte   Long-term influence of retained forest aggregates on conifer regeneration in the Pacific Northwest
  MS, in progress