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Creator:: Moriarty, Katie M.
Abstract:: Some of the most pressing conservation concerns involve declining populations of species with low fecundity and highly specialized foraging and reproductive requirements. Yet, we often lack a functional understanding of how individuals of those species interact with their environment, specifically how their movement is affected by human-induced changes. In order...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Katie M. Moriarty for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

Creator:: Spaan, Robert Steven
Abstract:: Dispersal facilitates population health and maintains resilience in species via gene flow. Adult dispersal occurs in some species, is often facultative, and is poorly understood, but has important management implications, particularly with respect to disease spread. Although the role of adult dispersal in spreading disease has been documented, the potential...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Dekelaita, Mark Linnell, Page Minton-Edison, Katie Moriarty, Brandon Nickerson, Abby Sage, Doni Schwalm

Creator:: Nickerson, Brandon Scott
Abstract:: The amount and distribution of neutral and adaptive genetic diversity are often assumed to follow similar patterns. However, natural selection on adaptive loci may cause divergence from patterns observed for loci which are only influenced by selectively neutral processes such as genetic drift. The interaction between selection and neutral processes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: group, including Jess Castillo, Tyler Creech, Rachel Crowhurst, Anne Davis, Mark Linnell, Katie

Creator:: Linnell, Mark A.
Abstract:: Although short-tailed weasels (Mustela erminea) are important predators of small mammals, little is known about their space use, habitat selection, or vulnerability to predation in North America. To evaluate the effects of forest management and social structure on home range size and habitat selection of short-tailed weasels, I conducted a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: project without the steady and enthusiastic support of my wife, Katie

Creator:: Castillo, Jessica A.
Abstract:: American pikas (Ochotona princeps) are considered an indicator species of climate change. Adaptations for cold climates and active winters make pikas particularly sensitive to increasing temperatures. This, combined with evidence that multiple historically occupied populations have been extirpated within the past century, contributed to American pikas becoming a focal species...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Special thanks to the Epps lab members: Brandon Nickerson, Tyler Creech, Katie Moriarty, Doni Schwalm

Creator:: Crowhurst, Rachel Selena
Abstract:: Habitat loss and fragmentation is a crisis affecting wildlife worldwide. In Tanzania, East Africa, a dramatic and recent (<80 years) expansion in human settlement and agriculture threatens to reduce gene flow among protected areas for many species of large mammals. Wildlife linkages can mitigate population isolation, but linkage designs lacking...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: your thoughtful advice. Thank you also to the Epps lab members (Katie, Mark, Jessica, Anne, Tyler

Creator:: Creech, Tyler G.
Abstract:: Landscape characteristics can strongly influence demographic and genetic processes in wildlife populations. Climate change and human land use are causing many landscapes to change rapidly, and the effects on wildlife populations must be understood to properly manage these threats and design effective conservation strategies. In this dissertation, I explored the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: comradery while working towards my PhD; thanks especially to Katie Moriarty, Doni Schwalm, Rob Spaan

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