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Creator:: Linkem, Christina N.
Abstract:: Headwater streams in the Oregon Coastal Range are subject to drastic fluctuations in flow and temperature because of the changing seasonality of a Mediterranean climate. In response to these changes, stream fishes exhibit a variety of movement patterns. Coastal Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii) have evolved an assortment of life...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , applied for by Dr. Brooke Penaluna—who I would also like to thank for helping me build professional

Creator:: Manning, Michael A.
Abstract:: The introduction of non-native species can negatively impact native species through reduced genetic fitness resulting from hybridization. The lack of spatiotemporal data of hybrids occurrences makes assessing hybridization risk difficult. Here, I developed a spatially-explicit GIS Hybridization Risk Model (HRM) between native ESA-listed Bull Trout and introduced Brook Trout by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Trout Habitat type/Brooke Trout (P/A) Bull Trout Spawning Habitat Bull Trout Other Habitat

Creator:: Mowlds, Emilee A.
Abstract:: Food webs are fundamental in ecology, as they offer a way to better understand the interrelatedness, connectivity, and complexity within a given ecosystem. The use of network analysis to model food webs can provide insights about the importance of physical templates on the organization of biological systems in streams using...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Fisheries Science (OSU), Brooke Penaluna (USFS), Bill Gerth (OSU), Lee Lynn Thompson (OSU), Ana Sanchez

Creator:: Baumbusch, Ryan C.
Abstract:: Following European-American colonization of North America and associated landscape changes, barred owls (Strix varia) underwent a dramatic expansion of their historical range. The barred owl expanded across the previously tree-less Great Plains that had limited their distribution, and into the forests along the west coast. In these western forests they...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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