L. LaReesa Wolfenbarger
Previous M.S. students
Lorelle Berkeley. 2004. The postfledging ecology of Dickcissels (Spiza americana). MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Page Klug. 2005. The effects of local grassland habitat and surrounding landscape composition on the predators of grassland bird nests. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Nichollette ZooknRider. 2006. The cumulative effects of using transgenic herbicide-tolerant (HT) soybeans on plant and butterfly diversity in marginal field habitat. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Joel Jorgensen. 2007. Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngities subruficollis) Abundance, Habitat Use, and Distribution During Migratory Stopover in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Erin Kucera. 2011. Effects of grazing on vegetation and grassland bird desnsities. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha .
Melissa E. Mount. 2013. Effects of Urbanization on the Species Richness and Abundance of Native Grassland Birds. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Michelle C. Biodrowski. 2013. The Effects of Patch Burn Grazing on Breeding Grassland Birds. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Heather D. Wills. 2013. Physiological Impacts of Wind Turbines on a Grassland Breeding Galliform, the Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido). MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Jason E. Andersen. 2015. The Effects of the 2011 Missouri River Flood on the Populations of Breeding Grassland Birds at DeSoto and Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuges. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
James Nooyen, Jr. 2016. The Effect of Arthropod Biomass on Post-fledging Survival and Movement of the Dickcissel (Spiza americana). MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Chase Wickard. 2017. Landscape effects on Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) densities and upland bird abundances in CRP patches. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Aaron Young 2017. Seasonal fecundity and post-fledging survival and habitat selection of Henslow’s Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii). MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Emily Geest 2017. Recruitment, survival, and parasitism of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in residential gardens and conservation areas. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Lindsay Brown 2018. Landscape and local features that influence habitat use and behavior of shorebirds in agriculture fields during migration in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.