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Creator:: Concannon, Julie Ann
Abstract:: This thesis consists of four chapters. Literature is reviewed in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 describes an addition series experiment to determine the influence of species density and proportion on vegetative and reproductive yield of spring wheat and Lolium multiflorum. Chapter 3 consists of a growth analysis experiment to determine whether...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: WHEAT AND LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM LAM. Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Steven R. Radosevich This

Creator:: Roush, Mary Lynn
Abstract:: Models of weed communities aid in the development of weed management strategies and elucidate the processes and mechanisms that regulate plant populations and communities. A conceptual weed community model was developed to organize key regulatory life-history processes. Specific investigations focused on the processes of plant growth and competition, and relationships...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: :_ Steven R. Radosevich Models of weed communities aid in the development of weed management strategies

Creator:: Simard, Suzanne W.
Abstract:: Sitka alder (Alnus sinuata (Regel) Rydb.) dominates many lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia Dougl.) sites following clearcutting in the Montane Spruce zone of the southern interior of British Columbia. The objectives of this study were to examine the effects of the sitka alder-dominated shrub community on the performance of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Hanson, D. Eric
Abstract:: I investigated the population dynamics of fireweed (Epilobium angustfolium), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) , and woodland groundsel (Senecio sylvaticus) to understand their colonization, persistence, and extirpation in Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir forests. Factors affecting the species' frequency and abundance in forest communities were evaluated. Their population dynamics were modeled and field experiments...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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