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  • Movement Patterns of Rockfishes at the Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve, Oregon

    Creator:
    Calvanese, Thomas P.
    Abstract:
    The effects of Marine protected areas (MPAs) on adult fish populations depend on the degree of protection provided, which is partly a function of MPA size and the spatial extent of fish movements. The Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve (RRMR) and MPA, located on the south coast of Oregon near Port...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Hixon, Dr. James Peterson, and Dr. Bruce Menge, for encouragement, support, and valuable feedback

  • Effects of the invasive Pacific red lionfish Pterois volitans on native Atlantic coral-reef fish communities

    Creator:
    Albins, Mark A.
    Abstract:
    Predatory lionfishes (Pterois volitans and P. miles) were introduced to Florida waters during the mid to late 1980s, and eventually established self-sustaining breeding populations in the tropical western Atlantic. These invasive species are now widespread along the southeastern seaboard of the United States, across the Caribbean Sea, and in the...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Coral-reef fishes : insights into larval dispersal and invasion ecology

    Creator:
    Pusack, Timothy J.
    Abstract:
    Because many coral-reef fishes are observable in situ, are amenable to transplantation, have small home ranges and short generation times, they provide a excellent system to investigate many topics within general ecology, fisheries biology, and conservation biology. The primary goal of this dissertation was to use the coral-reef fishes system...
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    Dissertation
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    questions were always appreciated. I felt like a valued student. Bruce Menge opened up my eyes to

  • Infectious diseases of the Felidae : parasite communities from miniature to massive

    Creator:
    Broughton, Heather M.
    Abstract:
    Direct anthropogenic stressors have caused drastic declines in wildlife populations over the past two centuries. In the face of these threats, spillover of infectious disease from domestic animals and livestock into wildlife, and novel interactions between parasites and pathogens within wildlife communities, have further suppressed already vulnerable populations. As management...
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    Dissertation

  • Amphibian communities and climate change : Where ecological processes meet evolutionary interactions

    Creator:
    Thurman, Lindsey L.
    Abstract:
    Forecasts of the impacts of climate change have traditionally focused on individual species and their phenotypes, phenology, or distribution. However, shifts in species distributions and the resulting reorganization of community composition represent an important violation to the assumption of species acting in isolation. Whereas species may respond individualistically to climate...
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    Dissertation
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    . Thank you to my committee, Matt Betts, Fiona Tomas Nash, Mark Urban, and Bruce Menge for your guidance

  • Drought, dispersal, and community dynamics in arid-land streams

    Creator:
    Bogan, Michael T.
    Abstract:
    Understanding the mechanisms that regulate local species diversity and community structure is a perennial goal of ecology. Local community structure can be viewed as the result of numerous local and regional processes; these processes act as filters that reduce the regional species pool down to the observed local community. In...
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    Dissertation
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    Arizona companion because of her field work on the Bill Williams River, near my house. Thanks to her

  • Candidate Causes, Consequences, and Estimation of Individual Diet Specialization

    Creator:
    Coblentz, Kyle E.
    Abstract:
    Diet variation among individuals within populations is widespread. Often diet differences among individuals are attributable to obvious differences among individuals such as age, sex, or morphology. However, growing evidence suggests that individual diet variation is also common among seemingly identical individuals within populations. This phenomenon has been termed individual diet...
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    Dissertation
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    Bruce Menge, Patrick DeLeenheer, Alix Gitelman, and Hans Luh. I appreciate their service on my

  • Environmental influences on host-pathogen dynamics of the amphibian chytrid fungus

    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...
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    Dissertation
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    inspiration. Bruce and Katie, thank you for teaching classes that challenged me. Matt, thank you for letting