Lieurance Wins Outstanding Oral Presentation Award

At a recent joint meeting of the Kentucky Invasive Species Council and the Southeast Exotic Plant Pest Council in Lexington, KY, third-year ES Ph.D. student, Deah Lieurance, won an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award. This honor came with a cash award of $150. Deah’s presentation, co-authored with her advisor, Don Cipollini, was entitled “Do damage levels from arthropod herbivores on Lonicera maackii suggest enemy release in North America?”. An abstract is provided below.

Congratulations to Deah!

Abstract-The ‘enemy release hypothesis’ argues when a species is introduced to a novel habitat