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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:: . ©Copyright by Eric David Sanford September 3, 1999 All Rights Reserved Oceanographic Influences on Rocky

Creator:: Iles, Alison C.
Abstract:: Most climate change predictions focus on the response of individual species to changing local conditions and ignore species interactions, largely due to the lack of a sound theoretical foundation for how interactions are expected to change with climate and how to incorporate them into climate change models. Much of the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: guidance of my committee members, especially Eric Berlow, whose imagination and creativity always keeps

Creator:: Freidenburg, Tess L.
Abstract:: Understanding how large-scale processes (>100 kms) influence ecological communities is currently a major focus in ecology. In marine systems, coastal upwelling, a large-scale oceanographic process in which surface water pushed offshore by winds is replaced by cold, nutrient-rich water from depth, appears to cause variation in rocky intertidal communities. Along...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: were excellent housemates and traveling companions in New Zealand. Gary Allison, Eric Sanford and

Creator:: Bracken, Matthew E.
Abstract:: While community ecologists have traditionally focused on local-scale processes, it has become apparent that a broader perspective, which explores the community-level ramifications of material fluxes within and between ecosystems, is necessary to effectively evaluate bottom-up influences on community structure and dynamics. In this dissertation, I employed ecosystem principles to understand...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: "siblings": Gary Allison, Karma Nielsen, Eric Sanford, Jen Bumaford, Tess Freidenburg, Heather Leslie

Creator:: Leslie, Heather M.
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on science relevant to the design and implementation of marine reserves. The chapters explore a range of topics related to among-site variation in population, community, and ecosystem dynamics. My results demonstrate the value and feasibility of integrating this knowledge into more comprehensive conservation and management approaches. While...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the research itself. Thank you to Patti Halpin, Gary Allison, Eric Sanford and Karina Nielsen for

Creator:: Nielsen, Karina Johanna
Abstract:: The relationship between nutrients and community structure is poorly understood in open-coast habitats. I created a system of artificial tidepools, of identical age and physical dimensions, at two sites that differed in wave exposure, and manipulated nutrient levels and the abundance of herbivores. Using these unique field mesocosms, I explored...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: enormously helpful and influential in all phases of this project. Eric Sanford and Jen Burnaford helped me

Creator:: Granek, Elise F.
Abstract:: Interface habitats are considered valuable natural systems, tightly linked to adjacent habitats through the flow of matter and energy. However, there is limited research on mechanisms of connectivity such as movement of organisms and particulate matter and ways in which anthropogenic disturbance to interface habitats may affect immediate and adjacent...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Eric Seabloom and Elizabeth Borer for reading draft manuscripts and to Eric for his willingness to

Creator:: Stillman, Jonathon Harris
Abstract:: Organismal tolerance to abiotic environmental stresses contributes significantly to setting the distribution limits of organisms, as demonstrated by vertical zonation patterns in the marine intertidal zone. In this thesis, the ultimate (evolutionary) and proximate (mechanistic) causes of tolerance to temperature and emersion stresses associated with the intertidal zone were examined...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Jens Franck, John Keen, Eric Sanford, Gary Allison, Carol Blanchette, Jeff Harding, Dwayne Meadows

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