University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 12-2006 The Tangled Web of Community Ecology: Making Sense of Complex Data Monica Lynn Beals University of Tennessee - Knoxville Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons Recommended Citation Beals, Monica Lynn, "The Tangled Web of Community Ecology: Making Sense of Complex Data. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2006. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1923 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Monica Lynn Beals entitled "The Tangled Web of Community Ecology: Making Sense of Complex Data." I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Susan Riechert, Major Professor We have read this dissertation and recommend its acceptance: Daniel Simberloff, James Drake, James Fordyce, Hamparsum Bozdogan Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official studentecor r ds.) To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Monica Lynn Beals entitled “The tangled web of community ecology: making sense of complex data.” I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.