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Creator:: Hanselmann, Rhea
Abstract:: With continual and worldwide human population growth, our impact on the natural environment expands and intensifies every day. We consume natural resources, burn fossil fuels, and release toxic compounds into the air, water, and earth. We build roads that fragment the landscape, construct new settlements, and develop agricultural lands in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Marks-Fife and Megan Cummings in the OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Eric Forsman at the

Creator:: Segui, Leah Mupas
Abstract:: A central challenge for ecology is to understand the dynamic nature of species interactions. A classic approach to community ecology assumes that individuals within a species are functionally identical and that consumer-resource dynamics can be predicted solely by using species abundances. However, one species can consist of multiple functional groups,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: United in STEM) as well as to Javier Tabima, Anne Devan-Song, Megan Wilson, Antonio Gomez, and Shumpei

Creator:: Devan-Song, E. Anne
Abstract:: Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Courtney Hendrickson, Megan Wilson, John Stepanek, Maya Feezell, Rebecca Mostow, Emily Boring, Lan Doan

Creator:: Swieca, Kelsey
Abstract:: Most marine fishes experience high rates of mortality during their early life history stages with far reaching consequences for adult population dynamics. Within a few weeks of hatching, relatively small changes in larval growth and mortality rates can lead to orders of magnitude variability in year-class strength. Growth and survival...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: some of my greatest friends: Kelia Axler, Miram Gleiber, Will Fennie, Megan Wilson, Moritz Schmid

Creator:: Stepanek, John
Abstract:: As global atmospheric carbon emissions continue to rise, scientists and land managers are increasingly looking to natural ecosystems to sequester and store carbon to buffer the impacts of climate change. Despite their small geographic size, many coastal ecosystems such as salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and mangroves sequester large amounts of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Rose Antaki, Dakota Fee, Hieu Ly, Fabian Mata, Claire Macdonald, and Max Fry—you are all incredible

Creator:: Gleiber, Miram R.
Abstract:: Survival of marine fishes during their early life history stage is tightly related to prey availability and predation pressure. Yet, our understanding of how individual larvae to entire assemblages are constrained by these factors is limited. We integrated biological sampling of larval fishes with fine-scale in situ imaging to relate...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Will Fennie, Megan Wilson, Christian Briseño-Avena, Clare Hansen, Dani Ottmann, Jessica Luo, Kelly

Creator:: Meunier, Zechariah D.
Abstract:: Long-term, large-scale studies of meta-ecosystems provide critical information about how global change influences communities. In my dissertation, I analyzed data from studies encompassing 18 years (2006 – 2023) and over 1,000 km of coastline to investigate drivers of rocky intertidal community structure and dynamics. Specifically, I explored the roles of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Megan Davis, Delaney Chabot, Caitlin Magel, Vanessa Constant, Katya Jay, and especially Rebecca Mostow

Creator:: Barner, Allison K.
Abstract:: Ecologists must increasingly balance the need for accurate predictions about how ecosystems will be affected by climate change, against the fact that making such predictions at the ecosystem-level may be infeasible. Although information about responses of individual species to a changing environment is increasing, scaling such information to the community...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: helping others; to Lindy Hunter and Megan Poole for their cheerful antics and determination to help me

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