Dale H. Vitt

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Photograph of the Vitt group of 2006 Graduate Students

From Left to Right:

Brian Benscoter, Dale Vitt, Bin Xu, Rose Boise, and Rebecca Mooneyhan

 

 

CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS

Brian at his computer

Brian Benscoter 

(Ph.D. candidate)  Temporal and spatial variability of peat accumulation and vegetation of post-fire boreal bogs. 

Becky teaching an undergraduate class

Becky Mooneyhan

(Ph.D. candidate) Ground layer response to disturbance in the pine-dominated montane forests of Alberta, Canada

Rose identifying moss fragments from peat core

Rose Bloise 

(Ph.D. candidate)  The initiation of boreal peatlands: A case study in northern Alberta, Canada

Bin Xu

Bin Xu in Canada

Bin Xu 

(Ph.D. candidate)  Impacts of increased N-deposition on boreal bogs.


GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED AND THESIS DIRECTED

Errington, R. 2006.  (co-supervisor) The development and carbon accumulation of five peatlands along a climate gradient in west central British Columbia, Canada.  M.Sc. Thesis  (Technician, Canadian Forest Service, Alberta, Canada).

Locky, D.  2005.  (co-supervisor).  Boreal wetlands of Duck Mountain, Manitoba: Characterization, forestry effects, buffers.  Ph.D. Thesis (Consultant, Manitoba, Canada)

Bauer, I.  2002.  Autogenic succession, the Clymo model, and peatland development in continental climates.  Ph.D thesis, 230 pp. (NSERC Post Doc at Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB)

Heinlen, E.  2002.  Patterns of bryophyte diversity and rarity.  M.Sc. Thesis, 170 pp.  (Consultant, Tonaskat, Washington)

Krieger, M.  2002. Revision of Lescuraea for North America.  M.Sc. thesis, 165 pp.  (Alberta Environment, Edmonton, AB)

Turetsky, M.  2002.  Carbon storage and decay in peatlands.  Ph.D. Thesis, 136 pp.  (Assistant Professor at Michigan State University)

Cleavitt, N.  2001.  Ecological comparison of rare and common mosses.  Ph.D. thesis, 293 pp.  (Researcher at Cornell University, NY)

Mills, S. (co-supervisor).  2001.  Bryophyte species composition and diversity at different scales in conifer-dominated boreal forest stands.  M.Sc. Thesis, 122 pp.  (Ph.D program, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan).

Doubt, J.  2001.  Patterns of moss rarity and richness in Waterton Lakes National Park, with implications for bryophyte conservation management.  M.Sc. Thesis, 148 pp.  (Researcher, Devonian Botanic Garden, Edmonton, AB)

Beilman, D.  2000.  Localized permafrost peatlands in boreal western Canada: distributions, plant communities, and peatland development.  M.Sc. Thesis, 119 pp.  (Ph.D. program at University of California, Los Angelos, CA)

Forest (Mauser), S.  2000.  Peatland management and conservation in boreal Alberta, Canada.  M.Sc. Thesis, 167 pp.  (Ducks Unlimited, Edmonton, AB)

Newmaster, S.  2000.  Patterning of bryophyte diversity in temperate rainforests.  Ph.D. Thesis, 372 pp.  (Assistant Professor, Quelph University).

Wind-Mulder, H.  1998.  Towards the restoration of peatlands: Comparisons of harvested and natural peatlands and examination of revegetation techniques.   Ph.D. Thesis, 211 pp. (Homemaker, Hamilton, ON)

LaFarge-England, C.  1997.  Systematic studies of the tropical genus Leucoloma Brid. (Musci:  Dicranaceae).  Ph.D.  Thesis, 396 pp. (Cryptogamic Herbarium Curator, University of Alberta)

Goffinet, B.  1997.  Circumscription and phylogenetic trends in the Orthotrichales (Bryopsida).  Ph.D. Thesis, 184 pp. (Ass’t. Professor, Department of Ecology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn.)

Malcolm, J.  1996.  Relationships between Sphagnum morphology and absorbency of Sphagnum board.  M.Sc. Thesis, 123 pp.  (Private consultant, Edmonton)

Kranrod, K.  1996.  The effects of timber harvesting methods on terrestrial lichens and understory plants in west-central Alberta.  M.Sc. Thesis, 136 pp. (Private consultant, Peace River, AB)

Jin, T-L.  1993.  Methane fluxes from wetlands of central Alberta.  M.Sc. Thesis, 78 pp.  (Unknown)

Nicholson, BJ.  1992.  The wetlands of Elk Island National Park:  Vegetation, development and chemistry.  Ph.D. Thesis, 166 pp. (Assoc. Professor, Department of Biology, Central Connecticut University, New Britain, Conn.)

Montagnes, RJS.  1990.  Patterns of variation in the brown moss Meesia triquetra over an arctic-boreal gradient.  M.Sc. Thesis, 225 pp.  (Unknown)

Gignac, LD.  1990.  Habitat limitations and ecotope structure of mire Sphagnum in western Canada,  Ph.D. Thesis, 262 pp.  (Professor, Department of Biology, Faculté Saint Jean, Edmonton)

Robinson, AL.  1988.  Distribution patterns of terricolous bryophytes and lichens along edaphic gradients of the sub-arctic forest-tundra.  M.Sc. Thesis, 118 pp. (Private Consultant, Sherwood Park, AB)

Chee, W-L.  1988.  The vegetation, water chemistry and peat chemistry of fens in the Lesser Slave-Athabasca area, and their relationships to other peatland types in Alberta, Canada.  M.Sc. Thesis, 175 pp.  (Unknown)

Kubiw, H.  1987.  Peatland development and peat chemistry of two rich fens of the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains.  M.Sc. Thesis, 126 pp. (Unknown)

La Farge-England, C.  1987.  The contemporary and subfossil moss assemblages of a high arctic upland, southern Piper Pass, northern Ellesmere Island, NWT.  M.Sc. Thesis, 145 pp.

Murray, BM.  1987.  Systematics of the moss class Andreaeopsida.  Ph.D. Thesis, 440 pp. (Herbarium Curator, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska)

Nicholson, BJ.  1987.  Peatland paleoecology and peat chemistry and Mariana Lakes, Alberta.  M.Sc. Thesis, 147 pp.

Rochefort, L.  1987.  Biological effects of wet acid deposition on peatland bryophytes.  M.Sc. Thesis, 171 pp. (Professor, Départment de phytologie, Université Laval, Quebec)

Salazar A., N.  1986.  A revision of the pantropical moss genus Leucophanes.  Ph.D. Thesis, 314 pp. (Professor, Department of Botany, Universidad de Panama, Panama)

Janssens, JAP.  1981.  Quaternary subfossil bryophytes in northwestern North America:  Their paleoenvironmental and phytogeographical signficance.  Ph D. Thesis, 450 pp. (Private consultant, Minneapolis, Minn.)

Horton, DG.  1981.  A revision of the Encalyptaceae (Musci) with particular reference to the North American taxa  Ph.D. Thesis, 444 pp.  (Assoc. Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa)

Shaw, AJ.  1980.  Taxonomy and ecology of the propaguliferous species of Pohlia Hedw. (Musci) in North America.  M.Sc. Thesis, 427 pp. (Professor, Department of Botany, Duke University, Durham, NC)

Peterson, WL.  1979.  A revision of the genera Dicranum and Orthodicranum (Musci) in North America North of Mexico.  Ph.D. Thesis, 453 pp. (Instructor, Cumberland College, Nashville, Tennessee)