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Assessing the potential impacts of alternative landscape designs on amphibian population dynamics

Creator:: Rustigian, Heather L.
Abstract:: present a unique modeling approach to investigate the potential impacts of future land use alternatives on amphibian population dynamics in two agricultural watersheds in central Iowa. An individual-based spatially explicit population was used to predict the consequences of alternative landscape design and management for populations of four amphibian species. The...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Distribution patterns of reptiles and amphibians in Puerto Rico

Creator:: Le, Minh Duc, 1973-
Abstract:: This study examined the question of whether a big island can be divided into many smaller islands with the same pattern of area-species curve as that of the complete island. To address this question, this study used data on the number and distribution of amphibians and reptiles on Puerto Rico...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Sources and perceptions of controversy in establishing a protected area for biodiversity : a case study in the New River Area of Oregon

Creator:: Erickson, Dana C.
Abstract:: The process of land acquisition for the conservation of plants or wildlife habitat can raise controversial issues, issues often perceived differently by the individuals and groups involved. After the land acquisition process is completed, there is rarely an opportunity to analyze the differing perceptions of the issues and their relative...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

The impact of land management decisions on dune processes on the Clatsop Plains: a case study of Camp Rilea, Oregon

Creator:: Flitcroft, Rebecca L.
Abstract:: This project explores the impact of land use decisions on dune processes at the Oregon National Guard's Camp Rilea. located on the north coast of Oregon. It used a combined analysis of historical and modern data sources to assess the impact of land use practices. Historical sources including the journals...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

The use of GIS in the analysis and prediction of available salmon habitat in an Oregon coastal stream

Creator:: Newton, Ann M.
Abstract:: Because of declines in salmon populations in recent years, the health of salmon habitat, in particular, is the focus of many resource agencies. The objective of this study is to use GIS to predict the location of suitable habitat. With data from an extensive set of stream surveys, GIS was...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Multiple perspectives on biodiversity in the Mid-Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Hummon, Cheryl
Abstract:: Biodiversity has become an important focus of ecological and wildlife research. However, the social aspects of biodiversity policy and regulations, specifically the public's perspectives and values about biodiversity, have not been adequately considered. This study examines the range of opinion about biodiversity of six groups that are potentially affected by...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Estimating the impact of community use of the Mavuradonha Wilderness in Zimbabwe

Creator:: Armentrout, Courtney L.
Abstract:: Legislated wilderness, first created in the United States with the Wilderness Act of 1964, is being more widely established internationally. The Mavuradonha Wilderness Area in Zimbabwe is the first wilderness set up to be managed by the local community. Because of the importance of both conservation and rural development goals...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Environmental correlates of freshwater fish species richness in Oregon

Creator:: Rathert, Daniel E.
Abstract:: Native freshwater fish biodiversily is imperiled in Oregon with 36 species or sub-species listed by the State of Oregon as sensitive, threatened, or endangered, and 9 species or sub-species listed as endangered or threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. Understanding and managing biodiversity is critical to its conservation. Using...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

A gender sensitive analysis of a community-based wildlife utilization initiative in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley

Creator:: Nabane, Nontokozo
Abstract:: Zimbabwe's Communal Areas Management Program For Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE), is a grassroots natural resource management initiative that promotes utilization of natural resources as an economic and sustainable land use option in Zimbabwe's rural areas. Currently the program focuses on wildlife utilization as a development intervention to improve the economic livelihood...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Residential solar energy use: barriers and incentives in a historical perspective

Creator:: Lesieutre, Aimee L.
Abstract:: Energy crises have triggered increases in solar energy use at various times in the past 2500 years. A surge of interest in solar energy was experienced in the United States in the late 1970's. This interest has since declined. Still, concerns about dependency on imported fuels, the environmental effects of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Basin level ecological regions of the upper Grande Ronde River

Creator:: Thiele, Sandra Anne
Abstract:: Ecological regionalization is a form of spatial classification, where boundaries are drawn around areas relatively homogeneous in landscape characteristics. In the delineation of ecological regions, or ecoregions, the process includes the analysis of ecosystem structure and function. Ecoregions have been developed at national and state scales for research and resource...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

The protection of instream flows in Idaho

Creator:: Schellbach, Ruth
Abstract:: Instream flow protection in western prior appropriation states is a relatively new phenomenon. Integrating instream flow protection measures with the older water law has been accomplished with varying degrees of success. Idaho relies on appropriation of unappropriated water by the Idaho Water Resource Board for protection of instream flows. Idaho's...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Obstructing public access to the backwaters of the Willamette River : a case study of "berms" near Peoria, Oregon

Creator:: Giday, Taare M.
Abstract:: This case study highlights the misappropriation of a public natural resource. Public access to the backwaters of the Willamette River near Peoria, Oregon has been obstructed by the construction of berms along the river f or private benefits. Based on field measurements, existing studies, state laws and regulations; this paper...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Spatial pattern of protected area designation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Creator:: Ilunga, Kikombo
Abstract:: This research was designed to search for regularities in the spatial pattern resulting from government designation of protected areas for conservation purposes on the African continent. Four countries were used to test for a relationship between protected areas and vegetation types and also whether colonial background had an impact on...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Historic attempts to cope with level variability of Great Salt Lake, Utah: a case study in social and environmental relationships

Creator:: Richards, Paul C.
Abstract:: The Great Salt Lake is typical of Great Basin and other arid land saline lakes in morphological and chemical characteristics. As with other terminal lakes, the level of Great Salt Lake is determined by the variable weather patterns that are typical of arid and semi-arid regions. Because of it's flat,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Public health hazards as a constraint on oyster production in the contiguous United States

Creator:: Rugger, Cynthia S.
Abstract:: Oyster production in the United States has declined from a leading nineteenth century fishery to a minor, failing industry. Oystermen must now depend on a diminished resource in an environment of competing and conflicting coastal uses. One of the most important influences on the industry's welfare is the sanitation of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

A strategy for monitoring the Payette National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan

Creator:: Thompson, Joyce Elma
Abstract:: Management of national forests evokes controversy about the allocation of limited resources among competing uses. A Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) has been prepared for the Payette National Forest. The Forest Plan describes resource management practices and the levels of resource production at which the Forest would be...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Assessing the potential impacts of alternative landscape designs on amphibian population dynamics

Distribution patterns of reptiles and amphibians in Puerto Rico

Sources and perceptions of controversy in establishing a protected area for biodiversity : a case study in the New River Area of Oregon

The impact of land management decisions on dune processes on the Clatsop Plains: a case study of Camp Rilea, Oregon

The use of GIS in the analysis and prediction of available salmon habitat in an Oregon coastal stream

Multiple perspectives on biodiversity in the Mid-Willamette Valley, Oregon

Estimating the impact of community use of the Mavuradonha Wilderness in Zimbabwe

Environmental correlates of freshwater fish species richness in Oregon

A gender sensitive analysis of a community-based wildlife utilization initiative in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley

Residential solar energy use: barriers and incentives in a historical perspective

Basin level ecological regions of the upper Grande Ronde River

The protection of instream flows in Idaho

Obstructing public access to the backwaters of the Willamette River : a case study of "berms" near Peoria, Oregon

Spatial pattern of protected area designation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Historic attempts to cope with level variability of Great Salt Lake, Utah: a case study in social and environmental relationships

Public health hazards as a constraint on oyster production in the contiguous United States

A strategy for monitoring the Payette National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan

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