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Creator:: Taft, Oriane Williams
Abstract:: Understanding how wetland birds use habitat is pivotal to developing successful and beneficial conservation strategies. Although it has been an ardent topic in forest research for some time, how species interact with the spatial patterning of habitat across a landscape (i.e., landscape structure) has been more or less neglected in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: project. I thank my committee members, Robsen Bonnichsen, Gay Bradshaw, John Hayes, Nathan Schumaker, and

Creator:: Xie, Yang
Abstract:: Emerging infectious diseases impact both human and wildlife populations. Infectious agents, in particular the aquatic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (chytrid), have an influential role in driving global amphibian population declines. The emergence of the chytrid fungus has aspects of both geographic spread as well as climate shifts altering environmental conditions and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Chapter 3: Nathan H. Schumaker and Allen Brookes helped design the chytrid model. Roland A. Knapp

Creator:: Valente, Jonathon J.
Abstract:: Habitat loss and fragmentation are the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Fragmentation impacts landscape configuration, resulting in a larger number of patches that are smaller in size and further apart from one another. Island biogeography and metapopulation theory predict populations in these remnant patches should be smaller, have higher extinction...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: helping me develop and implement the analyses in this document, Nathan Schumaker for making me think

Creator:: Perlman, Kathryn R.
Abstract:: Management goals for restoring populations of the federally-threatened northern spotted owl currently include experimental lethal removals of barred owls from demographic study areas within the overlapping ranges of the two species to examine northern spotted owl population response. As lethal removals of a bird species are time- and cost-intensive, predictive...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to initial project idea development and with connecting me with my committee member Dr. Nathan

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