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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:: the Marine Rocky Intertidal Abstract approved: Bruce A. Menge Abstract approved: Jane

Creator:: Traut, Bibit Halliday
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bryophytes and Understory Vascular Plants: A Retrospective Approach Abstract approved: Patricia S. Muir

Creator:: Brandt, Angela J.
Abstract:: Biological invasions pose one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity, but many naturalized invaders coexist with the native community. Community ecology theory provides a framework for understanding the mechanisms by which invaders might coexist with native species or exclude them from the community, thus informing management practices to maximize...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: like a second home to me. Cathy Koehler and Paul Aigner at McLaughlin were incredibly patient and

Creator:: Baker, Cynthia F.
Abstract:: To begin to understand freshwater seasonal floodplain fish communities in the context of human alteration of the physical system, species introductions and wetland restoration efforts, I studied fish assemblages in fifteen seasonal floodplain wetlands within four geographic regions (coastal, upper Columbia River estuary, Puget Sound and eastern Oregon/Washington) in the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: richness and diversity in fish assemblages were examined within a hierarchical framework of spatial and

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