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RESEARCH I am a forest community ecologist, with particular
interests in the
impacts of climate change and invasive species on forest
development. Current research interests:
1) Quantifying the relationship between light and tree
growth
2) Impacts of invasive buckthorn (Rhamnus
cathartica)
on Minnesota forests
3) Impact of climate change on growth, mortality and
regeneration of trees at the Minnesota's
prairie-forest
border
ACTIVE AND RECENT GRANTS
National Science
Foundation
(2010-2015). RUI: Life at the margins- impacts of climate
change
and herbivory on tree population dynamics at the prairie-forest ecotone
(P. Wyckoff- PI, with J. Anderson and J. HilleRisLambers). Project
budget: $262,761
Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BOWSR) contracted
work. Monitoring of restored wetlands in West Central
Minnesota
(Summer 2009). Amount of contract: $19,587
National Science Foundation (2007–2012). The UMM STEP
Program: An
Initiative to Encourage the Participation of Native Americans in the
Sciences, NSF-DUE-0653063, (J. Alia, J. Cotter (Head PI), T. Pappenfus,
T. Wyckoff, P. Wyckoff). Project Budget: $499,526
University of MN, Interdisciplinary International Research Circle
Grants (2007). Recent and on-going environmental change in
the
Arctic. (K. Brugger , M. Kuchenreuther and P. Wyckoff). Amount awarded:
$21,644
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Wyckoff, P. H.,R. Greiman, T. Krueger and L. Luce. In
review Forest-dynamics at Minnesota’s prairie-forest border
driven by invasive buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) and native bur oak
(Quercus macrocarpa)
Wyckoff, P. H., B. Hucka, A. Shaffer and M. Bombyk. In
review. Surprising negative association between invasive
European
buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) and invasive earthworms in west central
Minnesota
Clark, J.S., B. Beckage, D. Bell, Z. Chen, B. Courbaud, M. Dietze, M.
Hersh, J. HilleRisLambers, I. Ibanez, S. Ladeau, S. McMahon, J.
Metcalf, J. Mohan, E. Moran, L. Pangle, S. Pearson, M. Wolosin, P.
Wyckoff. 2010. High-dimensional coexistence based
on
individual variation. Ecological Monographs 80(4): 569-608.
Wyckoff, P. H. and R. Bowers. 2010. Response of the
prairie-forest border to climate change: impacts of increasing drought
may be mitigated by increasing CO2. J. of Ecology 98:197-208.
Goodnough, T., A. Kildegaard, M.Kuchenreuther, L. Rasmussen, P.
Wyckoff. 2009. Leveraging assets: a case study of
the
sustainability initiative at the University of Minnesota,
Morris.
The Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier). 17(12): 1138-1142
Wyckoff, P. H. and J.S. Clark. 2005. Tree growth
prediction
using size and exposed crown area. Can J. of Forest
Research 35 (1):13-20.
Wyckoff, P. H., R. Jansen and R. Patten. 2005. The
European
buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) invasion in west central
Minnesota. In: Proceedings: Symposium on the Biology, Ecology
and
Management of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) and European
Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica). USDA Forest Service Pub.
FHTET-2005-09: 49-52.
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