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Creator:: Taylor, David S.
Abstract:: Ecology is focused on understanding how organisms interact with each other and their environments, across ecological, spatial, and temporal scales. Thus, understanding how processes and patterns of ecological systems change across space and time is a principle goal for conservation biologist globally. While many approaches exist for investigating the changing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Brawner, Michael D.
Abstract:: Anthropogenic climate change is threatening biodiversity as I currently understand it. There is now a large body of work highlighting species responses, globally, to this threat. Importantly, responses at the species level emerge from responses at lower levels of biological organization (individuals and populations) across a species’ geographic range. For...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Unit (San Diego Natural History Museum), Allison J. Shultz (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

Creator:: Borland, Lauren K.
Abstract:: Sound is a crucial aspect of the underwater environment for fishes – various species use sound to communicate, identify predators, navigate, and many other activities needed for survival in their habitat. Disruptions and disturbances in the natural soundscape can have important impacts on all these activities and are likely to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: & invertebrates,” Marine Pollution Bulletin, 114, 9–24. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.11.038 Cass, A. J

Creator:: Tavalire, Hannah F.
Abstract:: Disease acts as a powerful selective force in natural systems, driving the rapid evolution of resistance in the host. In the face of a myriad of pathogenic challenges in natural systems, hosts must balance the energetic needs of maintenance and reproduction with costly resistance mechanisms. In this dissertation I will...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Parasitology 85, 411-426. Antonovics, J., Thrall, P.H., 1994. Cost of resistance and the maintenance of

Creator:: Jay, Katya R.
Abstract:: Sandy beaches and dunes cover approximately one-third of the world’s ice-free coastlines and provide ecosystem services including coastal protection, recreation, wildlife habitat, and carbon sequestration. These dynamic interface habitats are variably shaped by wind, waves, sedimentary processes, and vegetation feedbacks. Positive biophysical feedbacks lead to the formation of vegetated coastal...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Drs. Sally D. Hacker, Peter Ruggiero, and Laura J. Moore contributed to the conception and funding

Creator:: Hennessey, Shannon M.
Abstract:: Fluctuations and spatial heterogeneity of habitat and resources is thought to underlie niche variation in animal populations, with intraspecific differences serving to produce or maintain population-, community-, or ecosystem-level patterns. Individual diet variation, defined as individual variation in food resource use within a population that is consistent over time, is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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