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Creator:: Blankenship, Wyatt D.
Abstract:: There is growing interest in using biocrusts (assemblages of cyanobacteria, lichens, mosses, and other taxa in various proportions covering the upper few millimeters of the soil surface) to assist in restoring ecosystem function and native plant communities in dryland ecosystems. Biocrusts can be transplanted and established using jute or thatch,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Wyatt Dillon

Creator:: Weitemier, Kevin A.
Abstract:: At a time when the biodiversity on Earth is being rapidly lost, new technologies and methods in genomic analysis are fortunately allowing scientists to catalog and explore the diversity that remains more efficiently and precisely. The studies in this dissertation investigate genomic diversity within the milkweed genus, Asclepias, at multiple...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: certainly full siblings (Sparrow and Pearson, 1948; Wyatt and Broyles, 1990). These features have led to

Creator:: Nitsos, Ronald Eugene
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: different interactions of enzyme, substrate and activator cation. Wyatt (110) has proposed that these

Creator:: Gisler, Steven D.
Abstract:: In addition to its longstanding recognition as an influential evolutionary process, interspecific hybridization is increasingly regarded as a potential threat to the genetic integrity and survival of rare plant species, manifested through gamete wasting, increased pest and disease pressures, outbreeding depression, competitive exclusion, and genetic assimilation. Alternatively, hybridization has also...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Knaus, Brian J.
Abstract:: The study of the infra-specific ranks (i.e., subspecies and variety) can be considered the study of the process of speciation. Astragalus lentiginosus Douglas ex Hooker (Fabaceae) is the most taxon rich species in the U.S. flora currently including 40 taxonomic varieties. These varieties were described using traditional taxonomic methods primarily...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ., Rosie, Wyatt and Ellie Knaus, Kevin Knaus, Samuel N. Friedman. My committee: Rich Cronn, Aaron Liston

Creator:: Kral, George L.
Abstract:: The climate of the Pacific Northwest is in flux, and existing forest ecosystems are stressed and poised to shift in fundamental ways, with or without human intervention. This dissertation probes the nature of forest responses to environmental change through investigations of morphology and genetics of three species of alder co-occurring...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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