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  • A Bayesian approach to habitat suitability prediction

    Creator:
    Lockett, Daniel Edwin, IV
    Abstract:
    For the west coast of North America, from northern California to southern Washington, a habitat suitability prediction framework was developed to support wave energy device siting. Concern that wave energy devices may impact the seafloor and benthos has renewed research interest in the distribution of marine benthic invertebrates and factors...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    food source or prey for fisheries species humans consume (Reynolds, 2002); pollutant uptake and

  • White-breasted nuthatch density and nesting ecology in oak woodlands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon

    Creator:
    Viste-Sparkman, Karen
    Abstract:
    Habitat loss causes a reduction in available resources for wildlife, alters the configuration of remaining habitat, and may isolate wildlife populations. White-breasted nuthatches (Sitta carolinensis) are experiencing long-term population declines in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, where they are historically associated with oak woodlands. As secondary cavity-nesters, white-breasted nuthatches may...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    allow maximum detection of birds (Ralph et al. 1993) after a 1-minute waiting period to allow birds to

  • The evolutionary stability of partial migration

    Creator:
    Ohms, Haley A.
    Abstract:
    Natural selection, in its most basic form, is described as a process in which traitsincrease or decrease in frequency depending on their fitness, and only the trait withthe highest fitness will remain in the population. Yet, populations rarely have asingle `optimal' trait. The way natural selection maintains this observed variationwithin...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Ecological thresholds, climate extremes, and tree species' distributions across the Pacific coastal United States

    Creator:
    Lintz, Heather E.
    Abstract:
    Species' distributions across the landscape are perhaps the least understood yet most conspicuous features of life on earth. Ecologists have long studied species' distributions; yet, many questions remain about why species occur where they do. Such questions persist largely because species' distributions are complex systems with challenging properties like non-linearity,...
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    Dissertation