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Creator:: Miller, Todd William
Abstract:: The Northern California Current (NCC) ecosystem exhibits extreme seasonal, interannual and interdecadal shifts in the abiotic environment and shifts in primary and higher production. This variability is also apparent in the spatial structure of the ecosystem with nearshore-shelf waters (<150 m isobath) being highly productive and having a different community...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Fisheries Science presented on May 9, 2006. Title: Trophic Dynamics of Marine Nekton and Zooplankton in

Creator:: Moctezuma, Gabriela Montaño
Abstract:: Marine ecosystems can be exposed to natural and anthropogenic disturbances that can lead to ecological failures. Marine reserves have been lately suggested to protect marine populations and communities that have been affected by habitat destruction and harvest. This research evaluates the potential role of two marine reserves established in Oregon...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Sea Urchin-Kelp Forest Communities in Marine Reserves and Areas of Exploitation: Community

Creator:: Steingass, Sheanna M.
Abstract:: Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) are one of Oregon’s most common coastal predators, numbering between 10,000 and 12,000 individuals (Brown et al. 2005b). They consume more than 149 species or types of marine prey within the Pacific Northwest, which include a large variety of commercially important fisheries species. Despite...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: well as studying nearshore, estuarine and 4 neritic ecology from the aspect of a marine

Creator:: Gartz, Russell G.
Abstract:: The effects of harvesting Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) were examined with a multi-species numerical model composed of seven logistic growth equations coupled by a food web. The food web was composed of: California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), hake, sablefish (Anaplopoma fimbria), spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), a generic rockfish species (Sebastes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: resource. The above examples show that interspecific interactions might be an important feature in marine

Creator:: Whitman, Luke D.
Abstract:: The quality and availability of forage fishes and invertebrates can affect the behavior and productivity of predators that rely on these resources. This study measures the proximate composition of forage fishes and invertebrates from the southeastern Bering Sea to estimate prey energy density (quality) using a method that is ecologically...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 248: 53‐78. Ball, J.R., D. Esler, and J.A. Schmutz. 2007

Creator:: Calvanese, Thomas P.
Abstract:: The effects of Marine protected areas (MPAs) on adult fish populations depend on the degree of protection provided, which is partly a function of MPA size and the spatial extent of fish movements. The Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve (RRMR) and MPA, located on the south coast of Oregon near Port...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Marine Reserve, Oregon Abstract approved

Creator:: Kirchner, Theresa
Abstract:: Efficient foraging strategies result in a predator spatially overlapping with its prey, foraging in the most profitable patches, and minimizing the time transiting between patches. Previous studies investigating baleen whale foraging strategies have generally focused on investigating spatial overlap with prey patches, patch profitability or movement within feeding grounds. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences for the Ecology of Marine Nekton Award, for financial support. I

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