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Denise Piechnik The Pennsylvania State
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814-865-4603 Education: B.S. Ecology, San Francisco State University 1995 Departmental Thrust Areas: Community/Population Ecology Research: My research interests in community and population ecology are to examine community assembly, and how community properties like diversity and trophic structure respond to traits like habitat size and quality. Currently, my focus is to assess and describe how and which arthropod populations and communities may be impacted within the Gettysburg National Military Park (Gettysburg, PA) by park restoration and management activities. I am using multivariate analytical techniques to examine distributional patterns of arthropod diversity using diverse data types including arthropod traits, habitat types, and GIS. By combining comprehensive arthropod data with spatial data, I aim to suggest candidate indicator species and a monitoring plan for park managers based on management activities. Ultimately we propose to isolate a suite of species that may serve to indicate arthropod diversity “health” within the park (see Rohr et al. 2007). This work has broader implications for diversity monitoring and restoration approaches. Rohr, JR, Mahan, CG, and Kim, KC. 2007. Developing a monitoring program for invertebrates: guidelines and a case study. Convervation Biology 21: 422-433.
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