Andrea Lloyd

Interests:

1. Effects of global climate change on plant communities.
2. Response of plant populations to climate change during the Holocene.
3. Population ecology & demography of long-lived perennials.
4. Disturbance ecology of forest communities.
5. Effects of land-use change and fragmentation on forest communities

Sample Student Project Titles (parentheses indicate who did the project):

-Fire History of red pine stands in central Vermont (C. Silapaswan thesis)
-Effects of landslides on forest structure in the Adirondacks (P. Higuera thesis)
-Structure of plant communities in Leicester Bog (I. Davis independent project)
-Spatial patterns of tree colonization in gaps in the Battell Research Forest (A. Gilbert thesis)
-Patterns and effects of porcupine herbivory on spruce at the arctic treeline in Alaska (K. Shick thesis)
-Analysis of plant macrofossils in soils from treeline forests and adjacent tundra (C. Withington thesis)
-Geochemistry of lake sediments in central Vermont (A. Ayres thesis)