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Creator:: Kral, George L.
Abstract:: The climate of the Pacific Northwest is in flux, and existing forest ecosystems are stressed and poised to shift in fundamental ways, with or without human intervention. This dissertation probes the nature of forest responses to environmental change through investigations of morphology and genetics of three species of alder co-occurring...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Willamette Valley is dominated by a single plastid lineage which is subdivided into geographically

Creator:: Stewart, Glenn H.
Abstract:: The dynamics of stands in the mid-elevation old-growth Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests of the central western Oregon Cascade Range were investigated using stand structure analysis. Trees with different growth rates were commonly present in the same stand, which resulted often in a weak correlation between tree diameter and age. Thus,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: stand, which resulted often in a weak correlation between tree diameter and age. Thus, age data and

Creator:: Quandt, C. Alisha
Abstract:: Fungi in the genus Tolypocladium are diverse in their host associations, but the predominant ecologies include parasites of the ectomycorrhizal genus Elaphomyces and pathogens of insects. The aim of this dissertation research is to examine the evolution of these fungi and their host associations. To accomplish this several lines of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: metagenomic sequencing of a host sporocarp, were pursued in an integrated manner. The first chapter is an

Creator:: Steinman, Alan D.
Abstract:: Effects of current velocity, irradiance, and grazing on the biomass, taxonomic structure, physiognomy, and chemical composition of lotic algal assemblages were investigated. Four experiments, lasting 32 to 75 days, were conducted in laboratory streams to determine how these factors affect algal assemblages singly, and in concert with each other. Regardless...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: low (50 and 15 pEm -2s-1 ) irradiances were characterized by higher biomass, a greater amount of

Creator:: Mitchell, Diane Lynne
Abstract:: A 22 ha, 1S yeas old, diked permanent pasture in the Salmon River estuary in Lincoln County, Oregon, was chosen for a study to determine the potential for natural salt marsh restoration with dike breaching. Two undiked fragments of relatively undisturbed salt marsh, one at each end of the study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Approved: '? - 4&4,u Jerry F. Franklin A 22 ha, 1S yeas old, diked permanent pasture in the Salmon River

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