Paula Kleintjes Neff

Education

• Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy & Management (Entomology) - 1993
• B.S. California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, 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 Mountains, 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: (undergraduate researchers indicated by *)

Kleintjes Neff PK, Fettig SM, and VanOverbeke DR. (2007). Variable response of butterflies and vegetation to elk herbivory: An exclosure experiment in ponderosa pine and aspen-mixed conifer forests. The Southwestern Naturalist 52: 1-14.

Swanson JI* and Kleintjes Neff PK. (2007). Lycaeides melissa samuelis (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) response to an aggregation of Lytta sayi (Coleoptera: meloidae) on Lupinus perennis (Fabaceae). Great Lakes Entomologist 40: 68-78.

VanOverbeke DR*, Kleintjes Neff PK, and Fettig SM. (2007). Potentillia fruticosa (Rosaceae)as a nectar plant for butterflies. Journal of the Lepidopterist’s Society 61: 222-227.