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Interactive influences of wildfire and nonnative species on plant community succession in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Creator:

Ainsworth, Alison

Abstract:

The role of fire as a natural disturbance, its interactions with nonnative species and effects of repeated fires in the Hawaiian Islands have received little investigation. We are unsure of the role fire played in shaping forest structure and composition as well as affecting evolutionary processes of the native biota....

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Floodplain vegetation following over 80 years of intensive land use and de-watering : Lower Owens River, California

Creator:

Risso, Derek A.

Abstract:

Riparian areas in the arid western United States are critical ecosystems that have been severely degraded by a variety of land and water uses over the last 100 years. In this study, the composition and structure of floodplain vegetation along the Lower Owens River in eastern California was quantitatively described...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis