A major goal of conservation biology is to elucidate the population genetic structure in threatened species and assess the relative importance of the evolutionary forces that shape that population genetic structure. I conducted three studies in the declining amphibian Rana cascadae to assess levels of population genetic differentiation and the...
This study examined the question of whether a big island can be divided into many smaller
islands with the same pattern of area-species curve as that of the complete island. To address
this question, this study used data on the number and distribution of amphibians and
reptiles on Puerto Rico...
Dispersal of juvenile northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) was studied in western Oregon from 1982-1985. The study was initiated to document the pattern of juvenile spotted owl dispersal, survival, habitat use, and possible effects of forest fragmentation
on the dispersing juveniles in the Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir Region. Forty-eight juveniles...
Literature and museum records have been reviewed to
provide a summary on the distribution, habitat
associations and biology of six western North American
Dicosmoecinae genera and the single eastern North
American genus, Ironoquia. Results of this survey are
presented and discussed for Allocosmoecus, Amphicosmoecus
and Ecclisomvia.
Field studies were conducted...
Hypotheses of phylogenetic and historical zoogeographic relationships of glyptocephalines (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, G. zachirus, G. stelleri, Microstomus kitt, H. pacificus, H. achne,
Embassichthys bathybius, and Tanakius kitaharae) were constructed based on comparative anatomy and external morphology. The phylogenetic approach was cladistic and character polarity was
determined by using out-group comparison. One...
The fishes of Upper Klamath Lake appeared to distribute
themselves in three general groups during the summers of 1964
and 1965: (1) the chubs--unrestricted as to distribution with slight
seasonal variations; (2) rainbow trout and yellow perch -- restricted
to certain water conditions that exist only along the northern marsh...
In addition to standard spawning surveys for coho salmon, this report contains additional sampling in the Yaquina River, at the Salmon River Hatchery and tributaries of Coos Bay "to document straying of private hatchery coho salmon from the Oregon Aqua-Foods (OAF) facility at South Beach, Yaquina Bay, and Anadromous, Inc.,...
Forest carnivores such as the fisher have frequently been the target of conservation concern due to their association with older forests and assumed sensitivity to landscape-level habitat alteration. Although the fisher has been extirpated from most of its former range in the western U.S., it is still found throughout much...