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  • Freeze-thaw cycles in permafrost soils and their impacts on the climate: A literature review

    Creator:
    Bergmann, Maya K.
    Abstract:
    Climate change is occurring at an increasingly rapid rate, with impacts heightened in the cold regions of the world including the Arctic. Warming effects are widespread, with one impacted process – freeze-thaw cycles – increasing in frequency and potentially triggering additional changes in permafrost soils that have previously acted as...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Jeffery A. Hatten, Committee Member, representing Department of Forest Engineering, Resources

  • Experiments and Observations on How Changes in Riparian Forests Affect Light and Stream Ecosystems

    Creator:
    Swartz, Allison G.
    Abstract:
    Riparian zones are ecotones between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Processes in streams are strongly influenced by riparian forest communities, age, stage and structure. Temperate forests across much of North America, including riparian areas, are recovering from historic land clearing with many stands in the stem-exclusion phase of development in which...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    development in which a high density of young or early-mature trees create a single uniform canopy. This