The Walnut of Fame

Established in May 2019, the Walnut of Fame* commemorates theses completed in the Myers lab. Each circle is a tree tag hand stamped with the initials and graduation year of a lab member. Red tags are Ph.D. theses. Orange tags are undergraduate honors theses. Theses are listed in the caption below. The wood is black walnut (Juglans nigra) from Missouri, provided by Goebel & Co., a local woodworking company in St. Louis. *Name credit: Emily DeWald-Wang.

Theses (tree tags) from left to right:

• Jacqueline C. Reu, Honors Thesis (2019) – The scale dependence of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships
• Emily A. DeWald-Wang, Honors Thesis (2019) – Plant chemical defenses, density dependence, and biodiversity in a temperate tree community
• Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Ph.D. (2019) – Abiotic niche-assembly as a driver of species diversity and relative abundance in temperate and tropical forests
• Christopher P. Catano, Ph.D. (2019) – Beta-diversity, environmental change, and the stability of regional ecosystems
• Ashley J. Knudson, Honors Thesis (2017) – Biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships are mediated by the environment and functional traits
• Amal Al-Lozi, Honors Thesis (2012) – Unraveling mechanisms of recruitment limitation in temperate-forest seedling communities
• Elizabeth A. Yablon, Honors Thesis (2013) – Functional traits, environmental gradients, and community assembly in a temperate forest