Erika L Mudrak

Erika L Mudrak, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Post Doctoral Researcher

    Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

    Iowa State University (Ames, IA)

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  • Advisors:

    Kirk Moloney, Donald M. Waller

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
     
    M.S., Biometry, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
     
    B.S., Biology, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
     
    B.S., Mathematics, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Deborah Roach (as Technician)
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  • Research:
    Plant Community and Population Ecology, Mathematical applications in Ecology and Evolution. I am interested in investigating spatial patterns in vegetation and tracking change in landscape ecology across spatial and temporal scales.


    My dissertation explores the relationship of the conspicuous regional trends observed in Wisconsin upland forest understory plants over the last 50-years to the spatial distribution and association of individual species at local scales, as well as their dependency on the local environment defined by biotic and abiotic factors.

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  • Other Experience:

    2006 ELME: Enhancing Linkages between Mathematics and Ecology - Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University

    2004-2005 Lab and Field Technician- UVA Biology Department, Roach Lab

    2003 Foresty Studies Intern- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

    2003 LTER Project Intern, Cedar Creek Natural History Area

    2002 NSF REU Program- Blandy Experimental Farm, Boyce VA

    2001 NSF REU Program- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO.

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  • Honors:

    2006-present NSF Graduate Research Fellow

    2003-present Phi Beta Kappa

    2003 Doris Ermine Smith Award(Univ. Rochester) for Female in Mathematics

    2001 Stoddard Prize in Mathematics (Univ. Rochester) for top sophomore mathematics major

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Erika Mudrak's Publications (2)



Erika Mudrak's Posters and Presentations (1)

  • Forty-seven Year Changes in Vegetation at the Apostle Islands: Effects of Deer on the Forest Understory. (presentation)

    Erika L Mudrak

    Western Great Lakes Research Conference, Marquette, MI; 04/2008

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