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Creator:: Del Giudice Tuttle, Elena
Abstract:: Local adaptation in plants may hold the key to understanding the level of resilience of an ecosystem and probability of persistence of a species in the face of rapid anthropogenic changes in climate and disturbance regime. Clonal species are especially important in wetlands, one of our most productive and vulnerable...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , 1975; Grace and Wetzel, 1981; Gopal and Sharma, 1983). Dispersal mechanisms have been observed for

Creator:: Holfus, Corinna M.
Abstract:: Within the sagebrush steppe ecosystem, invasive annual grasses are of growing management concern as they outcompete native vegetation, change the fundamental nutrient cycling processes, decrease biodiversity, and increase frequency of wildfires. The most widely used and effective management tool to decrease invasive annual grass abundance, is the use of pre-emergent...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi (AMF) in the soil for nutrient and water uptake (Wicklow-Howard 1994). These

Creator:: Spickerman, Kaleigh
Abstract:: Functional traits of vascular plants have been an important component of ecological studies for a number of years; however, in more recent times vascular plant ecologists have begun to formalize a set of key traits and universal system of trait measurement. Many recent studies hypothesize global generality of trait patterns,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Nafus, Aleta M.
Abstract:: Crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum [L] Gaertm), an introduced bunchgrass, has been seeded on over 5 million hectares of degraded rangeland in western North America because it establishes more readily than native bunchgrasses. Because crested wheatgrass stands are associated with native species displacement and low biological diversity, there is substantial interest...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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