Paula Kleintjes Neff

Education

• Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy & Management (Entomology) - 1993
• B.S. California Polytechnic State University, Environmental & Systematic Biology - 1986

Courses

• Biol 180 Conservation of the Environment
• Biol 311 General Entomology
• Biol 320 Ecology of Tropical Environments
• Biol 328 Conservation Biology
• Biol 329 Field Experiences in Conservation Biology

Research - Conservation Biology & Insect Ecology

• Response of butterflies to vegetation management and ungulate grazing in the Jemez Mtns. New Mexico.
• Habitat restoration and conservation of the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly.
• Tri-trophic interactions among plants, insects and vertebrates.
• Citizen science.
• Selected publications: (undergraduates are indicated by *)
  

  Swanson JI* and PK Kleintjes Neff (accepted Aug. 2006). Karner blue butterfly Lycaeides melissa samuelis (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) response to an aggregation of Lytta sayi (Coleoptera: Meloidae) on Lupinus perennis L. Great Lakes Entomologist.

  Kleintjes PK, SM Fettig, DR Van Overbeke*. (in press for 2007). Variable response of butterflies and vegetation to elk herbivory: An exclosure experiment in ponderosa pine and aspen-mixed conifer forests. Southwestern Naturalist.

  Kleintjes PK, BF Jacobs and SM Fettig. (2004). Initial response of butterflies to a slash-mulch treatment of a pinon juniper woodland. Restoration Ecology 12:231-238.