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Dr. Victoria Borowicz

Associate Professor Emeritus
Office
SLB Science Laboratory Building 415
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Research Interests & Areas

Species interactions involving plants.  Recent research concerns:

  • mycorrhizal fungi and plant-herbivore relations
  • resource limitation and the role of a hemiparasitic plant in prairie communities.

Ph D Ecology

The Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA

MS Zoology

The Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA

BS Science & Environmental Change

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Green Bay, WI

Grants and Contracts

Do hemiparasitic plants increase diversity, and if so, how?
Victoria Borowicz, Anna Scheidel.
Friends of Nachusa Grasslands. March 2019
NFIG: Response of a native parasitic plant to an aggressive alien legume
Victoria Borowicz.
URO. July 1 2014 - June 30 2015

Other

When enemies attack do plants get by with a little help from their friends? Commentary
Victoria Borowicz.
New Phytologist, 169, 644-646, (2006)

Presentations

Combining The Ecological Dynamics of Aboveground and Belowground Processes
Diane Byers, Victoria Borowicz.
International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology; Education and Research, Normal, IL, October, 2015
Plant-enemy relations and the role of plant symbionts
Victoria Borowicz.
ISU, ISU, February 14, 2013