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Creator:: Bancroft, Betsy A.
Abstract:: My thesis explored the effects of and potential mediating mechanisms for an important environmental stressor, ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation. UVB radiation has negative effects on organisms in both terrestrial and aquatic systems. I used meta-analysis to quantify the effects of UVB radiation on a diversity of aquatic organisms (Chapter 2). UVB...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Andrew R. Blaustein My thesis explored the effects of and potential mediating

Creator:: O'Donnell, Ryan P.
Abstract:: The benefits of reproduction are clear, but there are also costs. Much is known about the costs of reproduction in females, but only recently have male costs been investigated in any depth. These costs of reproduction may be minimized by appropriately modifying behavior, but there has been little research on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: my friends are also too numerous to thank by name, but Brad and Becky Alsop deserve special mention

Creator:: Sanford, Eric (Eric David)
Abstract:: The influence of large-scale processes on natural communities has become one of the central issues of modern ecology. I combined field and laboratory studies to investigate the effects of variation in coastal upwelling on rocky intertidal communities along the central Oregon coast. I examined whether the growth of intertidal barnacles...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Brady, Bryan Chipman, Steve Gaines, Brian Grantham, Becky Mansfield, Alexei and Duncan Menge, Jacque

Creator:: Ligman, Scott H.
Abstract:: The vascular system of Aplysia californica is a simple visceromotor system with three main arteries innervated by a small pool of identified neurons. I used this system to study the functions of neuropeptide transmitters and their actions on neural and muscle tissues. A central finding of this study is that...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: as a neurotransmitter (Nicoll et al., 1980a) and as a neuromodulator (Vincent and Barker 1979); egg

Creator:: Lutterschmidt, Deborah I.
Abstract:: Most vertebrates exhibit seasonality in many life history traits. Such seasonal rhythms are temporally organized via the transduction of environmental cues (e.g., photoperiod, temperature) into appropriate endocrine signals. However, among ectothermic vertebrates that undergo continuous winter dormancy, temperature is the only environmental cue available for synchronizing seasonal rhythms. Most intriguing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: laboratory: Brittany Barker, Renée Catullo, Arianne Cease, Christopher Friesen, Daniel Grilli, Giselle

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