Professor Bruce Clarkson: Graduate Students
Professor Bruce Clarkson has supervised the following students in graduate study:
PhD Students
Brown, Marie (in progress). Biodiversity offsets in New Zealand: scientific, legal and planning challenges
Weeks,Emily (in progress). Intensive Development of NZ's tussock grasslands:rates of change,assessment of vulnerability,and priorities for protection.
Froude, Victoria (submitted). Naturalness on the edge : coastal natural character and factors affecting its preservation and loss in Northland, New Zealand.
Overdyck (nee Grove), Liz (in progress). Thresholds for sustainable
regeneration in urban restoration plantings.
MSc Students
Myron, Kirsty (in progress). Pittosporum kirkii: autecology and conservation of an endemic epiphytic shrub.
Bylsma, Rebecca (in progress). Structure, composition and dynamics of pohutakawa forest, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
Efford, Jackson (in progress). Effects of recent volcanic eruptions on the treeline vegetation of Mt Taranaki, New Zealand.
Bryan, Catherine (submitted). Epiphytes in urban restoration with a focus on Griselinia lucida.
Miller, Kieran (submitted). Why are shade tolerant understorey species less prolific in disturbed and retored forests?
Coleman, Emma (2010). Can the alien species Grey Willow (Salix cinerea) be manipulated to enhance and restore Kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydiodes) stands in the Waikato?
Kapa, Mieke (2009). The ecology of Eleocharis sphacelata, a fibre resource used by Maori
McIntosh, Fiona (2010). Ecosystem susceptibility to weed invasion along an urban - 'back- country'
gradient - the role of community composition and abiotic factors.
Pudney, Kemble (2009). The
autecology of Lonicera japonica in
relation to ecological restoration.
Cornes, Toni (2006). The composition, dynamics and
condition of native forest in the Raglan ecological district.
Francis van den Bosch, Esther (2006). Ecology and control
of Woolly Nightshade (Solanum mauritianum).
MacKay, David Bruce (2006). Restoration ecology of gully forest patches in Hamilton Ecological District.
Wallace, Ian (2006). Ecology/Population dynamics of
Californian thistle (Cirsium arvense) in New Zealand pastures.
Grove, Elizabeth (2005). Rarity and regeneration failure
of Melicytus aff. Alpinus 'Rangipo' in the Central North Island,
New Zealand.
McLean, Don (2004). Composition and dynamics of East Coast forest remnants.
McGlone, Heidi (2003). Quantifying the Threat Posed by Pampas (Cortaderia selloana and Cortaderia jubata) to the Waikato Region.
Fergie, Shannon (2002). Restoration of peatland
vegetation following disturbance. (Environment Waikato Study Award).
Complete List - for a complete list of
completed Biological Sciences graduate students and their theses titles please click here.
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