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Creator:: Hilliard, Richard
Abstract:: A dissertation describing the results of a series of greenhouse experiments conducted to better understand phytoremediation in stormwater bioretention systems.
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Esposito, Daniel M.
Abstract:: The sagebrush steppe ecosystem of the Columbia Plateau has become degraded by a long history of alternative land use and associated perturbations. Protection of remnant stands of intact sagebrush steppe currently relies upon their preservation within the nation's network of parks and protected-areas. The John Day Fossil Beds National Monument,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Smith DiCarlo, Lauren A.
Abstract:: Up to 99.9% of native North American grasslands have been degraded since European settlement, primarily due to agricultural conversion. Today, grasslands are a top priority for restoration as they provide essential habitat for many rare and endangered species; however, the majority of studies in grasslands have focused on vegetation or...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Gonzalez, N., DeBano, S.J., Kimoto, C., Taylor, R.V., Tubbesing, C., Strohm, C., 2013. Native bees

Creator:: Buck, Julia C.
Abstract:: The causes of the global biodiversity crisis are varied and complex. Anthropogenic threats may act in isolation, or interact additively or synergistically with each other or with natural stressors to affect sensitive taxa. The recent emergence of many infectious diseases in wildlife has brought attention to the role of disease...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . I thank Barb Taylor for training me and allowing me to use her fluoroscope. I thank Tara

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:: the Taylor Grazing Act in 1934. This legislation was designed to “stop injury to the public grazing

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:: ; Taylor, 2012). Beginning with extensive environmental legislation in the 1970s, a two pronged approach

Creator:: Newbold, Chelsea L.
Abstract:: Quinone outside Inhibitor (QOI) fungicides are one of the most widely used fungicide classes (FRAC 11) in the world. This popularity is the result of their ability to effectively manage a wide array of economically important pathogen species on a broad range of crops. While having mostly preventative activity, some...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Carniel, 200l; Pringle & Taylor, 2002). Many of the genetic mutations associated with fungicide

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