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Creator:: Averett, Joshua P.
Abstract:: Invasion by non-native plants into natural areas is an important component of global change that threatens biodiversity and ecosystem structure and function. Mountains are currently among the least invaded ecosystems, however, these biodiversity hotspots are increasingly under threat of exotic plant invasion. Evaluation of plant species distribution patterns in mountain...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to Ricardo Mata-González and Bruce McCune for their excellent mentorship, technical support, and

Creator:: Berlow, Eric Layani
Abstract:: As ecologists are being called upon to predict the consequences of human perturbations to natural communities, an important goal is to understand what factors drive variability or consistency in nature. In the rocky intertidal of San Juan Island, Washington, a comparative experimental approach was used to investigate spatial and temporal...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and helped to ground my convoluted thinking in reality. Sergio Navarrete served as my mentor and

Creator:: Curtis, Jenna R.
Abstract:: Human alteration of natural landscapes leads to biodiversity loss, often from a combination of area effects and fragmentation effects. Smaller habitat patches support fewer species than large ones and incur additional consequences from isolation. Efforts to preempt biodiversity loss from insular habitat fragments are complicated by individualistic species responses and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Jamir, Tomas Vergel C.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Burias Pass, Ticao Pass and Northern Samar Sea, especially to Mr. Gregorio Hermosa, Jr., Dr. Jose

Creator:: Smith, Wade D.
Abstract:: Differences in the chemical composition of calcified structures can be used to reveal natal origins, connectivity, metapopulation structure, and reconstruct the environmental history or movement patterns of many marine organisms. Sharks, skates, and rays (elasmobranchs) lack the calcified structures, known as otoliths, that are typically used for geochemical studies of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: sharks and their relatives. CRC Press, Boca Raton.Carrier, J.C., Pratt Jr., H.L., and Castro, J.I. 2004

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