Graduate Students
Dustin Vanoverbeke
| Program: | Ph.D. |
| Major Professor: | Richard Redak |
| E-Mail: | dustin.vanoverbeke@email.ucr.edu |
| Location: | 235 Ent |
| Phone (office): | (951) 827-4733 |
Education
- B.S. Biology University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Research Focus
I am interested in the nutritional ecology of holometabolous insects. I intend to study the effects of varying larval and adult nutrient quality on male fitness parameters in the Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus L.
Selected Publications
- Kleintjes, P.K., S.M. Fettig and D.R. VanOverbeke (accepted March 2006). Variable response of butterflies and vegetation to elk herbivory: An exclosure experiment in ponderosa pine and aspen-mixed conifer forests. Southwestern Naturalist.