Marina Lauck
PhD Student, Environmental Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
PO Box 874501
Tempe, AZ 85287-4501
Titles
- PhD Student, Environmental Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biography
Marina is an aquatic ecosystem ecologist interested in understanding how primary producer communities' structure and function is influenced by species traits and variable environmental conditions in arid streams and wetlands. Her dissertation is focused on understanding how primary producer functional traits affect ecosystem metabolism in freshwater systems. Her interest in urban wetlands sprouted side-projects monitoring hydrology and plant community dynamics in the Salt River's accidental wetlands. She received her master's in Ecology at Florida State University studying interactions between algal crusts, plant communities, and storm disturbance regimes on barrier islands coastal dunes in the Florida panhandle. She received for BS in Biology at Florida Atlantic University, where she completed her Honors Thesis on managing pine scrubland plant communities and an NSF Undergraduate Research and Mentoring (URM) program fellowship working in sawgrass communities in the Florida Everglades.
Education
- MS, Ecology and Evolution, Florida State University, 2016
- BS, Biology, Florida State University, 2013
Journal Articles
2015
Eliyahu, D., A. C. McCall, M. Lauck and A. Trakhtenbrot. 2015. Florivory and nectar-robbing perforations in flowers of pointleaf manzanita Arctostaphylos pungens (Ericaceae) and their effects on plant reproductive success. Arthopod-Plant Interactions 9:613-622. DOI: 10.1007/s11829-015-9399-3. (link )
Eliyahu, D., A. C. McCall, M. D. Lauck, A. Trakhtenbrot and J. L. Bronstein. 2015. Minute pollinators: The role of thrips (Thysanoptera) as pollinators of pointleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos pungens (Ericaceae). Journal of Pollinator Ecology 16:64-71. (link )
Lauck, M. D. and B. B enscoter. 2015. Non-destructive estimation of aboveground biomass in sawgrass communities of the Florida Everglades. Wetlands 35:207-210. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-014-0596-0. (link )
2013
Lauck, M., J. Scholl and E. Frazier. 2013. An analysis of the vegetation within the FAU Preserve as a basis for management of scrub habitat for Gopherus polyphemus. Forida Atlantic University Undergraduate Research Journal 2(1):. (link )
Posters
2020
Lauck, M. D. and N. B. Grimm. 2020. Effects of variable inundation patterns on wetland plant communities and nitrogen uptake in the Salt River wetlands. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 17, 2020, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2019
Grimm, N. B., A. Handler, M. D. Lauck, M. M. Palta and A. Suchy. 2019. A most valuable accident: Accidental wetlands provide ecosystem services in an aridland city. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposum, January 11, 2019, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ.
Lauck, M. D. and N. B. Grimm. 2019. Effects of variable inundation patterns on wetland plant communities and nitrogen uptake in the Salt River wetlands. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 11, 2019, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2017
Kemmitt, K. L., M. D. Lauck, N. B. Grimm, P. K. Westerhoff and P. Fox. 2017. Relationships between ecosystem metabolism and water quality: A case study from the canal system in Phoenix, AZ. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting Portland ESA 2017, August 6-11, 2017, Portland, OR. (link )