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An assessment of community-based adaptive watershed management in three Umpqua Basin Watersheds

Creator:

Habron, Geoffrey Bryan

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The dissertation introduces community-based adaptive watershed management (CAWM) as a holistic conservation framework. The CAWM framework integrates social and ecological suitability to achieve conservation outcomes. The core theoretical concepts consist of adaptive management, adoption-diffusion, symbolic interactionism, community-based conservation, spatial analysis and watershed management. The CAWM framework is applied to the...

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Trophic dynamics of marine nekton and zooplankton in the Northern California Current ecosystem

Creator:

Miller, Todd William

Abstract:

The Northern California Current (NCC) ecosystem exhibits extreme seasonal, interannual and interdecadal shifts in the abiotic environment and shifts in primary and higher production. This variability is also apparent in the spatial structure of the ecosystem with nearshore-shelf waters (<150 m isobath) being highly productive and having a different community...

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Dissertation

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of prey to predator diets. For AHCA we used the Sørensen (Bray-Curtis) distance measure and