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Recipients of the the Mickey Scudder Scholarship in Field Biology

year
recipient
university
project title
1985 Anthony Rossi UMSL An Investigation of Honey Storage and Utilization in Pre-emergent Nests of a Paper Wasp
1986 Kaius Helenurm WU Mating Systems and Reproductive Biology of the Texas Bluebonnet
1987 Jane Stevens UMSL Response to Stimulated Herbivory in the Trumpet Vine
1988 Kathy Reppell SLU Incidence of Lyme Disease Spirochetes and Rocky Mountain Rickettasia in Ticks at Tyson
1989 Jennifer Matos WU Evolution in the Pinus montezuma Complex, Population Structures and Hybridization
1990 Richard Clinebell UMSL Biology of Exotic Invasion in the Wade Tract, a Relict Preserve of Endangered Long-leaf Pine Savanna in Thomas Co. Georgia
1991 Marshal Hedin WU Natural History of Glade Inhabiting Arachnids: Ecological, Evolutionary and Conservation Biology Implications
1992 Niels Rattenberg SLU Effect of Clutch Topography on the Hatching Success of Host Eggs in Nests Parasitized by the Brown-headed Cowbird
1993 Delbert Hutchison WU Levels of Genetic Variation Within and Between Isolated Populations of collared Lizards on Missouri Glades:Testing Conservationally Important Hypotheses
1994 Chris Hochwender UMSL The Effects of Species Loss and Host Plant Genotypes on Communal Structure: A Test Case Using the Common Milkweed and Its Herbivores
1995 John Lill UMSL Ecological Factors Influencing Host Plant Selection in three Caterpillar Species
1996 Paige Mettler-McClure SIU Determination of Light Level Patterns and Their Relationship to Herbaceous Succession for Sites of a Threatened Floodplain Species, Boltonia decurreas
1997 Jacqueline M. Goerck UMSL Ecology and History as determinants of Rarity of Birds: A Case Study with Antbirds
1998 Thomas Prinzie WU Evolution of the Milkweed Corona; Systemics and Flower Development in Neotropical Milkweeds
1999 Debbie Tobin UMSL Ecology and Social Role of Scent Markings of North American River Otters in Missouri
2000 Andrew Kinziger SLU Systematics of the Ozark Sculpin and Mottled Sculpin
2001 Elma Kay SLU Pollination of the Greater Antillean Passionflower by the Greater Antillean Long-tongued Bat
2002 Kevin Matson UMSL Maintenance of Immune system Function in Hawaii’s Introduced Birds
2003 Cintia Cornelius UMSL Reproductive Success and Genetic Structure of Two Endemic Birds of the South-Temperate Rainforest: Dispersal and Habitat Limitations in a Fragmented Landscape
2004 Teresa Patricia Feria UMSL Modeling the Ecological Niche of Endemic Species in the Balsas Basin, Mexico, and Evaluation of Four Methods
2005 Casey B. Dillman SLU Systematics of the Crayfish Genus Cambarus
2006 Nicholas W. Griffin WU Factors Influencing Pollinator Interactions and Mating Systems in Mimulus ringens
2007 Andrea Loayza UMSL Demographic Consequences of Seed Dispersal by Tufted Jays (Cyanocorax cyanomeles and C. chrysops) and Toucans (Pteroglossus castanotis, Ramphastos toco) for Guettarda viburnoides (Rubiaceae) in a Neotropical Savanna

SLU = Saint LouisUniversity
UMSL = University of Missouri-Saint Louis
WU = Washington Univerersity in Saint Louis

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