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B.S., M.S., Brigham Young University, UT
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Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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His research aims to identify the major morphological, phenological, and physiological adaptations of mushroom sporocarps to specific environmental conditions.
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Future research efforts will be directed at understanding energy flow in natural and human-centered ecosystems with the goal of helping formulate suggestions as to how culturally different human populations can realistically achieve a sustainable energy flow.
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Dr. McKnight regularly directs student research projects and has manuscripts in preparation with student coauthors concerning plant succession in Bryce Canyon National Park, olfactory responses to the common cold, and computer assisted measurement of reproductive surfaces of gilled mushrooms.
