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Creator:: Walter, David Evans, 1950-
Abstract:: The Macrocheles glaber species group contains many of the common mites which are associated with the dung of domestic animals. Species in the glaber group have been investigated for their use as biological control agents of synanthropic flies. Over 10,000 slide-mounted specimens of Macrocheles in the OSU Acarology Collection and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Garrett, Karen A.
Abstract:: Most studies of plant disease epidemiology have focused on epidemics in host populations composed of a single genotype. But crop plant diversity can be a useful means of improving the deployment of resistance genes. In a series of experiments with wheat stripe rust and potato late blight, we studied factors...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Heyborne, William H.
Abstract:: The effects of forest cutting on forested systems and the biotic components of those systems has been at the forefront of scientific research. The inventory and monitoring of biodiversity is one technique used for measuring the effects of forest management. Because bioinventory studies are expensive, indicator species are often sought...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Petersen, Terry D.
Abstract:: Computer simulations and experiments were used to determine the basis for skewness and inequality in size structures (frequency distributions of Individual plant sizes) prior to self-thinning mortality. In simulated stands, density-dependent neighborhood heterogeneity caused variability in the growth rate of individuals with the same size, and such variability caused skewness...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Schreiber, Barry
Abstract:: The effect of snag retention on clearcuts on breeding bird populations was evaluated in the Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) dominated forest in central coastal Oregon. Diurnal bird species on 14 clearcut sites (< 4 years old) were censused during two breeding seasons. On clearcuts containing high numbers of snags, cavity-nesting birds...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Parks, Catherine G.
Abstract:: This greenhouse study evaluates the influence of separately and simultaneously imposed water stress, western spruce budworm (Choristorneura occidentalis Freeman) defoliation, and inoculation with the root pathogen, Armillaria ostoyae (Romagn.) Herink, on the growth and biochemical features of Abies .grandis (Dougl.) Lindi. Seedling biomass, plant moisture status, bud phenology, and allocation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Grossmann, Emilie B.
Abstract:: I conducted two separate studies, both related to the impacts of spring and fall prescribed fire on ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Loud.) forest soils in Eastern Oregon. The studies were either conducted at or linked to four stands of ponderosa pine, in the Malheur National Forest. Each stand...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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