| 1999 Huyck Grants |
| Researcher |
Project |
Gregory Bole
SUNY-Stony Brook
|
Speciation and sexual selection in fireflies |
John Confer
Ithaca College
|
Shrubland birds of the Blenheim-Gilboa right-of-way: Density, nesting success, and impact on adjacent birds of the forest |
Susanne Foitzik & Christopher DeHeer
Colorado State University
|
Co-evolutionary armsrace between a socially parasitic ant and its host |
Jennifer Frank
University at Albany
|
Effects of earthworms and predators on the structure and function of the detrital community in northeastern mixed deciduous forests |
Geoffrey Gardner
University at Albany
|
Beech scale (Cyyptococcus fagisuga) dynamics in an aftermath forest |
John Maerz
SUNY-Binghamton
|
Variation in salamander foraging patterns and potential consequences for forest invertebrate communities |
Oscar Rios-Cardenas
SUNY-Buffalo
|
Patterns of paternity in the pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) |
George Robinson
University at Albany
|
Forest succession and landscape change in the Huyck Preserve |
Isabella Scheiber
University at Albany
|
Mate choice in the house wren (Troglodytes aedon), a monomorphic passerine |
| 2000 Huyck Grants |
|
Jill DeVito
University of Texas-Arlington
|
Safety in numbers: metamorphic synchrony and aggregation as anuran antipredator defense strategies |
Jennifer Frank
SUNY Albany
|
Effects of earthworms and vertebrate predators on the structures and function of the decomposer community in northeastern deciduous forests |
Sabastian Interlandi
Drexel University
|
Assesing phytoplankton to elemental stoichiometry relationships in living and fossil communities |
James McCormick
SUNY Albany
|
Influence of bluejay caching behavior upon American beech population structure |
Mark McLean
University of Colorado
|
Patterns of species richness and composition in the understory vegetation of a mixed Hardwood/Hemlock forest at the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve |
Steven Rice
Union College
|
Understanding bryophyte water relations: Field validation of a canopy exchange model |
Oscar Rios-Cardenas
SUNY Buffalo
|
Cost of parental behavior and patterns of paternal effort and paternity in the Pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) |
| 2001 Huyck Grants |
|
Jill DeVito
University of Texas |
Aggregating tadpoles |
Elyse Glover
SUNY-Albany |
House wren egg parasites |
Ryan Herlands
Vanderbilt University |
Leaf beetle speciation |
James McCormick
SUNY-Albany |
Blue jay and beech seeds |
| Mark McLean |
Floral species richness |
Oscar Rios-Cardenas |
Sunfish behavior |
Emily Russell, Ph.D. |
Eighteenth Century vegetation |
| 2002 Huck Grants |
|
Miriam Brandt and Susanne Foitzik
Regensburg University |
Strength of reciprocal selection pressures and coevolutionary hot spots in social parasite systems |
Jill DeVito
University of Texas-Arlington |
Safety in numbers: metamorphic synchrony and aggregation as anuran antipredator defense strategies |
Elyse Glover
SUNY-Albany |
Do House Wrens (Troglodytes asdon) exhibit relic rejection behavior in response to experimental brood parasitism? |
Ryan Herlands
Vanderbilt University |
The role of ecology in population differentiation in Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles |
James McCormick
SUNY-Albany |
Influences of bluejay caching behavior upon American beech population structure |
Jesse Meik and Jill DeVito
University of Texas-Arlington |
Physiological toerances and microhabitat partitioning among three sympatric Lycosid spiders |
James Runkle |
Twenty-four years of change on a 200-year old Tsuga Canadensis woods |
| 2003 Huyck Grants |
|
John Arnason
SUNY-Albany |
Investigation of Mercury in Sediments of Lincoln Pond and Myosotis Lake of Ten-Mile Creek Watershed, Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve |
Susan Beatty
University of Colorado-Boulder |
The Meaning of Disturbance in Ecological Systems |
April Boulton
Villanova University |
Influences of a common wood ant (Formica exsectoides Forel) on plant biodiversity in Huyck Preserve |
Jill DeVito, Jesse Meik, and Marina Gerson
University of Texas-Arlington |
Physiological tolerances of riparian lycosid spiders: a mechanistic analysis of differential tolerances to thermal and desiccation stress |
Susanne Foitzik and Miriam Brandt
Regensburg University |
Influence of slavemaking ants on their hosts- a field manipulation study |
Sean Madden
SUNY-Albany |
Water Quality and Biological Sampling Along Ten-Mile Creek: A Companion Study To the Restoration of Patroon Creek |
Julie Urban
NYS Museum Laboratory for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics |
A phylogeny for the Planthopper Superfamily Fulgoroidea |
| 2004 Huyck Grants |
|
April Boulton
Villanova University |
Influences of a common wood ant on native and exotic plant species |
Gerald Bove
SUNY-Buffalo |
Zooplankton migration in Myosotis Lake, Huyck Preserve, using Acoustic Doppler Profiler (ACDP) and Scindler-Patalas trap |
Jill DeVito
Miami University |
Response of terrestrial riparian wolf spiders (Pirata sedentarius) to chemical cues of vertebrate and invertebrate predators |
Mike Dlugos
Binghamton University |
Does temperature, food abundance, and development time influence A. remigis tactic choice? |
| 2005 Huyck Grants |
|
Alexandra Achenbach and Matthias Rohde
Ludwig Maximilians University |
Colony rounding, risk evaluation and chemical warfare in the slavemaking ant Protomagnathus americanus |
Mike Dlugos
Binghamton University |
The effects of temperature, food abundance, eclosion date, and female receptivity on Aquarius remigis tactic choice |
Emily Mooney
West Virginia University |
Genetic and Evolutionary Consequences of Harvest in American Ginseng, Panax quinquefolius |
Ivan Pnadourski
Institute of Zoology- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
Taxonomy, faunistics and zoogeography on the Copepods (Crustacea) from the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve |
| 2006 Huyck Grants |
|
Alexandra Achenbach
Ludwig Maximilans University, Germany |
Occurrence of local adaptation in chemical and behavioral traits and chemical and behavioral traits and underlying population genetics structure in the slavemaking ant Protomognathus americanus and its hosts |
Catherine Burns
WildMetro |
Small mammal diversity and abundance in the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve |
Mike Dlugos
Binghamton University
|
Effects of temperature, photoperiod, food abundance and predator abundance on Aquarius remigis mating tactics and behavioral syndromes |
Omar Eldakar
Binghamton University
|
The evolutionary response of the eastern tree hole mosquito Ochlerotatus triseriatus and the invasive Ochlerotatus japonicus to local acid rain environments in the Adirondacks region of New York State |
Cynthia Jimenez & Frank Burbink
College od Staten Island |
Phylogenetic and population genetics analyses of Thamnophis sirtalis of the Huyck Preserve with a comparison to northeastern United States populations |
Emily Mooney
West Virginia University |
Genetic and evolutionary consequences of harvest in American ginseng Parex quinquefolius |
| 2007 Huyck Grants |
|
| Catherine Burns & Karena DiLeo
WildMetro |
Habitat associations of small mammals: A comparison of two survey methods |
Mike Dlugos
Binghamton University |
Aquarius remigis mating tactics: environmental effects and r and k behavioral strategies |
Linda Gormezano
American Museum of Natural History |
Noninvasive DNA sampling to estimate abundance, distribution and genetic structure of coyotes in Huyck Preserve, NY |
Bernd Neumann
SUNY Albany |
Mercury uptake by aquatic macrophytes of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve, Rensselaerville, NY |
Rebecca Pinder
SUNY Albany |
An assessment of invasive earthworms as a prey resource for streamside salamanders |
Sabastian Pohl
Ludwig Maximilans University Germany
|
Risk evaluation and decision making in slavemaking ants |
Kelly Martin
Wildlife Rehabilitator |
To help defray costs of housing animals used for education purposes |
| 2008 Huyck Grants |
|
Omar Eldakar, Mike Dlugos, David Sloan Wilson, Ph.D.
Binghamton University
|
The importance of population structure: The evolution of hyper-aggressivity in water striders
|
Craig Frank, Ph.D.
Fordham University |
Latitudinal variations in the recovery of torpor bouts by populationsof a facultative hibernator |
Christine Andrea Johnson, Ph.D.
American Museum of Natural History |
Ecology of slave-maker ants and their hosts: The effect of geographic variation in parasite and host range on co-evolutionary trajectories |
Rebecca Pinder
University at Albany
|
An assessment of invasive earthworms as a prey resource for streamside salamanders |
Sabastian Pohl & Annette Leingartner
Ludwig Maximilans University |
Different fronts in the co-evolutionary arms race of slavemaking ants and their hosts |
| 2009 Huyck Grants |
|
Christine Andrea Johnson, Ph.D
American Museum of Natural History |
Ecology of slave-maker ants and their hosts: The effect of geographic variation in parasite and host range on co-evolutionary trajectories. Grant renewal request |
Tobias Pamminger and Sebastian Pohl
University of Munich, Germany Ph.D. Students
|
Host-parasite interactions in slavemaking ants and their slaves |
Sean Robinson
University at Albany Ph.D. Candidate
|
The influence of sexual condition and dispersal ability on the population genetic structure of bryophytes |
| 2010 Huyck Grants |
|
Robyn J. Burnham, Ph.D
Museum of Paleontology,
University of Michigan.
|
Censusing Lianas in Mesic Biomes of the Eastern RegionS (CLIMBERS) |
Andreas Modlmeier & Tobias Pamminger, Ludwig-Maximilians
Universität, München, Germany Ph.D. Students
|
Influence of density and social parasites on aggression |
Rebecca A. Pinder
University of Albany Ph.D. Student
|
Determining earthworm distribution patterns at the Huyck Preserve |
James Runkle, Ph.D
Wright State University, Dayton OH
|
Thirty-two years of change in a 200-yr old Tsuga canadensis woods |
Rebecca A. Urban, Ph.D
Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
|
How do functional groups of aquatic macrophytes influence sediment chemistry? |
