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Creator:: Zarnetske, Phoebe Lehmann
Abstract:: Biological invasions provide a unique opportunity to study the mechanisms that regulate community composition and ecosystem function. Invasive species that are also ecosystem engineers can substantially alter physical features in an environment, and this can lead to cascading effects on the biological community. Aquatic-terrestrial interface ecosystems are excellent systems to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Parameter values: linear models determining dry biomass ............................ 143 F Parameter

Creator:: Xie, Yang
Abstract:: Emerging infectious diseases impact both human and wildlife populations. Infectious agents, in particular the aquatic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (chytrid), have an influential role in driving global amphibian population declines. The emergence of the chytrid fungus has aspects of both geographic spread as well as climate shifts altering environmental conditions and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30: 133-165. Allan BF, Keesing F and RS Ostfeld. 2003. Effect

Creator:: Barner, Allison K.
Abstract:: Ecologists must increasingly balance the need for accurate predictions about how ecosystems will be affected by climate change, against the fact that making such predictions at the ecosystem-level may be infeasible. Although information about responses of individual species to a changing environment is increasing, scaling such information to the community...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ................................................................................................205 APPENDIX E – CHAPTER 3 SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES AND FIGURES ..........214 APPENDIX F – WAVE

Creator:: Biel, Reuben G.
Abstract:: Biological invasions and climate change represent two preeminent threats to ecological communities and biodiversity, altering the distribution and abundance of species, disrupting existing species interactions and forming unprecedented ones, and creating novel ecological communities. Many of the most successful invasive species are also ecosystem engineers, species that physically modify the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: initial tiller density (B, D, F), and sand burial (all panels)....126 4.6 Ammophila breviligulata leaf

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