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Creator:: Bouché, Adam J.
Abstract:: Changes to disturbance regimes resulting from shifts in forest management practices have created novel landscape conditions in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). I analyzed the implications of changes to landscape conditions caused by forest management for the spread of a native root disease: black stain root disease (BSRD) of Douglas-fir. BSRD...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: helped guide my decisions and understanding of this ecological system. Thank you to Mario Vega, whose

Creator:: Leimberger, Kara G.
Abstract:: Global environmental change is causing local extinctions of species. When species depend on one another, as in the mutualistic relationship between plants and pollinators, loss of one interaction partner may cause cascading effects within the community – such as additional extinctions and reduced pollination services. Network theory provides a way...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: supply of new ideas to test. Committee members Adam S. Hadley, Berry Brosi, Mark Novak, and Rebecca

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:: thank Calandra Stanley for being such a great colleague and friend in the field. I thank Rebecca

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