Elise Larsen

Ph.D., Fall 2013
Biology Department

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Research

My main research interest is understanding how wildlife populations and communities respond to natural and human disturbance. My dissertation research explores the response and recovery of the bird community at Mount St. Helens following the 1980 eruption. I am also interested in population level effects of individual responses to climate change and habitat modification through theoretical modeling. I believe that understanding the effects of human activities and environmental change on ecological systems is critical for effective conservation.

• Mount St. Helens Research Portal

Recent Biology Publications

• W.F. Fagan, Y. Pearson, E. Larsen, J.B. Turner, H.J. Lynch, H.Staver, J. Turner, A. E. Noble, S. Bewick, and E. Goldberg. 2013. Phylogenetic prediction of the maximum per capita rate of population growth. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. 280: 20130523
• E.A. Larsen, W.F. Fagan, J.M. Calabrese and M. Rhainds. 2013. Female mating failure in nonautonomous spatial population models with protandry. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 146: 130-140.
• W.F. Fagan, C. Cosner, E.A. Larsen and J.M. Calabrese. 2010. Reproductive asynchrony in spatial population models: How mating behavior can modulate Allee effects arising from isolation in both space and time. American Naturalist 175: 362-373.

Recent Education Publications

• K.R.B. Schmitt, A.H.A. Badaway, S. Kramer, K. Hrapczynski, E. Larsen, A. Andrew, A. Taylor, A. Williams, S. Benson, M. Dougherty, M. Miller, and B. Robertson. 2013. Student expectations from CS and other stem courses: they aren't like CS- majors! or (CS !=Stem-CS). J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 28(6): 100-108.

Previous Education

• 2008 MS, BiologyThe College of William & Mary
• 2001 BS, Zoology / Environmental BiologyMichigan State University