Ecology Research

Like all students majoring in Life Science, students with a concentration in Ecology conduct a senior research project. You are encouraged to participate in ongoing faculty research projects or develop projects within your own research interests. Funding is available from the Otterbein Student Research Fund here.

Examples of senior research projects recently conducted in ecology include:

Dr. Bouchard's Lab

Melissa Oxley '06 The effects of geotextile tubing on hatching and emergence success of marine turtles, Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas, on the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, Melbourne Beach Florida

Jenna Berry '06 The effects of diet on microbial gut populations in the yellow-bellied slider turtle, Trachemys scripta

Amber Murphy '06

Photo of a female student standing in a pond with a bucket

Non-additive dietary interactions between plant and animal material in juvenile slider turtles, Trachemys scripta

<Amber collecting duckweed

David Kimberly '06 Relationship between anuran species richness and abundance and pond water quality

Dr. Hoggarth's Lab

Ben Van Allen '06	Directional quantification of macroinvertebrates in Big Walnut Creek
Robert Baers '05	A Comparison of the Impact of Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha ) on Two Central Ohio Streams.
Adam Lammers '05	Variations in Macroinvertebrate Communities as a Response to Variations in Allochthonous Inputs.
Chantil Stull '05	Substrate Preference in Fingernail Clams (Sphaeriidae).

Dr. Lehman's Lab

Justin Whitehill '06	Ips pini (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) is a vector of the fungal pathogen, Sphaeropsis sapinea (Coelomycetes), to Austrian pines, Pinus nigra (Pinaceae)
Mikael Schilb '04	First Report of Phytophthora insolita and Phytophthora inflata on Rhododendron in Ohio
Karin Hanson '03	Relationship Among Genes Conferring Partial Resistance to Leaf Rust ( Puccinia triticina ) in Wheat Lines CI 13227 and L-574-1
Jessica R. Miesel '01	Natural establishment of conifer seedlings on the Muddy River Mudflow deposit, Mount St. Helens

Melissa Oxley '06	The effects of geotextile tubing on hatching and emergence success of marine turtles, Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas, on the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, Melbourne Beach Florida
Jenna Berry '06	The effects of diet on microbial gut populations in the yellow-bellied slider turtle, Trachemys scripta
Amber Murphy '06	Non-additive dietary interactions between plant and animal material in juvenile slider turtles, Trachemys scripta <Amber collecting duckweed
David Kimberly '06	Relationship between anuran species richness and abundance and pond water quality

Ecology Research

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