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  • Preschool children's motor development and perceived competence

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    Boucher, Barbara H.
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    This study compared the effects of two conditions on the motor development of preschool children and investigated the relationship between preschool children's motor development and perceived competence. Specifically, it provided information for discerning: a) the relative effects of a sensory-motor condition and an unstructured activities condition on the motor development...
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    Motor Development and Perceived Competence Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Dr. Susan M

  • California condors in the Pacific Northwest : integrating history, molecular ecology, and spatial modeling for reintroduction planning

    Creator:
    D'Elia, Jesse
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    Reintroduction programs are increasingly being used to save animals from extinction and aid in their recovery. The California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus), one of the most endangered birds in the world, is a remarkable example of how reintroduction programs can help rapidly increase a species' population numbers and range following a...
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    : ________________________________________________ Susan M. Haig Reintroduction programs are increasingly being used

  • Phylogeography, evolution, and conservation in forest-associated Pacific Northwest salamanders

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    Wagner, R. Steven
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    Phylogeographic studies of six Pacific Northwest forest-associated salamanders provide insight into historical and contemporary processes on population genetic structure. Among Larch Mountain Salamanders (Plethodon larselli), cytochrome b mitochondrial (mtDNA) sequences (381 bp) and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPDs; 34 loci) supported separate Management Units for northern and southern populations (12...
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    . Evolution, and Conservation in Forest-associated Pacific Northwest Salamanders. Abstract Approved: Susan M

  • Influence of wetland landscape structure of shorebirds wintering in an agricultural valley

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    Taft, Oriane Williams
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    Understanding how wetland birds use habitat is pivotal to developing successful and beneficial conservation strategies. Although it has been an ardent topic in forest research for some time, how species interact with the spatial patterning of habitat across a landscape (i.e., landscape structure) has been more or less neglected in...
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    Landscpe Structure on Shorebirds Wintering in an Agricultural Valley Abstract approved: Susan M. Haig

  • Rapid endangered species assessment : a novel approach to improve extinction risk assessments in poorly known species

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    Bianchi, Carlos A.
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    The number of endangered species is rapidly increasing while paucity of adequate information and resources delays establishment of conservation actions. The IUCN’s listing system is insufficient to determine conservation priorities and many species lack information even to be evaluated (i.e., “data deficient”). Here I proposed and tested the Rapid Endangered...
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    Risk Assessments in Poorly Known Species. Abstract approved: Susan M. Haig The

  • Population demography, resource use, and movement in cooperatively breeding Micronesian Kingfishers

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    Kesler, Dylan C.
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    Island systems and species are susceptible to extinction because of their small population size and an ecological naiveté from an evolutionary past lacking strong competition and predation. For example, only one-fifth of the world’s bird species occur on islands, yet more than 90% of the avian extinctions witnessed during historic...
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    Movement in Cooperatively Breeding Micronesian Kingfishers Abstract approved: Susan M

  • Essays on location decisions and carbon sequestration strategies of U.S. firms

    Creator:
    Wu, Caiwen
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    Location is a critical component of business decisions. A firm's location decision may be influenced not only by market forces, such as the location of input suppliers, output processors and competitors, but also by government policies if such policies impact their expected profits and are applied non-uniformly across space. Likewise,...
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    : ______________________________________________________________________ Susan M. Capalbo JunJie Wu Location is a critical component of business