Holthuijzen, Wieteke A<\/strong>.*1, Beth N. Flint2, Jonathan H. Plissner3, Kaylee J. Rosenberger 1, Coral A. Wolf3, and Holly P. Jones1. “Fly on the wall: monitoring ecological impacts of invasive house mice (Mus musculus) on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge via arthropod diversity.” 1Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. 2U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, Hawaii. 3Island Conservation, Honolulu, Hawaii. Email: wholthuijzen@gmail.co<\/p>\n 2018:<\/em><\/b> 2017:<\/em><\/b><\/span> 2016:<\/em><\/b><\/span> Elsa Anderson<\/b>, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Evaluating low-input techniques for increading plant diversity in highly degraded sites”<\/span><\/p>\n 2015:<\/em><\/b><\/span> 2014:<\/em><\/b><\/span> 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Ernst, Adrienne R.*1,2<\/strong>, Andrew L. Hipp3, Renata Poulton-Kamakura4, and Andrea Kramer1. “Going beyond richness: the effect of phylogenetic and functional diversity on invasion resistance.” 1Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois, 2Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 3Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, 4University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n 2018:<\/em><\/b> 2017:<\/em><\/b> 2016:<\/em><\/b> 2016, Undergrad:<\/em><\/b> 2015:<\/em><\/b> 2014:<\/em><\/b>
\nMaria DeLandreau<\/b>, Rebecca Montgomery, William Kiser, Tim Schlagenhaft, & Meredity Thomsen, University of Minnesota – St. Paul, University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse, and Audubon Minnesota – St. Paul, “Tree sapling responses to reed canary grass treatments across four floodplain sites in southeast Minnesota.”<\/p>\n
\n Dan R. Gibson<\/b>, Logan Rowe, Rufus Isaacs, and Douglas A. Landis, Michigan State University, “Integrating agriculture and prairie restoration: native wildflowers can support natural pest suppression.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\n James Palus<\/b>, The Ohio State University, “Environmental influences on canopy disturbance histories in mature oak-hickory forests in southeastern Ohio”<\/span><\/p>\n
\n Rebecca Tonietto<\/b>, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden, “Bee community composition along a restoration chronosequence in the Chicago Wilderness region”<\/span><\/p>\n
\n Malia Volke<\/b>, South Dakota State University, “The emergence of reservoir deltas in the regulated Missouri River: Opportunities for cottonwood forest restoration”<\/span><\/p>\n
\nStudent Poster Presentation Awards<\/h2>\n
\nAnna A. Peschel <\/b>and Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota – Falcon Heights, Minnesota, “Restoration in an era of climate change: how will adaptive evolution affect prairie conservation?”<\/p>\n
\nSean P. Wylie <\/b>and Todd Aschenbach, Grand Valley State University, “Response of Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica<\/em>) to <\/b>fire and herbicide treatments in a degraded sand prairie.”<\/p>\n
\nEmma Oschrin and H.L. Reynolds<\/b>, Indiana University Bloomington, “Co-occuing invasive plant species: how multiple invasion affect plant community dynamics”<\/p>\n
\nJonathon Hileman, Erika M. Holum, Elle M. LeClaire (presenters) with M. Bargy, J. Foster, J. Golan, B. Hibbard, S. Koll, D. McClanahan, A. Slater, S. Vance, S. Zuniga, and R. Mullen, Eureka College, Illinois, “Getting to the root of the problem: botany students turn activist to formulate policy in favor of native plants”<\/p>\n
\nRobert Hevey<\/b>, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Garden, “Ectomycorrhizal community recovery in a Quercus<\/em> savanna following restoration from a Rhamnus cathartica<\/em> invasion”<\/p>\n
\nNikol Ross<\/b>, University of Minnesota, “Effectiveness of nitrate reduction in a constructed wetland receiving tile-drainage water from an agricultural field in along Elm Creek, a Blue Earth River tributary in south central, Minnesota”<\/p>\n
\nMidwest Recipients of SER Awards<\/h2>\n
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