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Creator:: Mayorga Adame, Claudia Gabriela
Abstract:: Tropical coral reef ecosystems are very important from both the ecological and economical points of view. However, they are also particularly fragile, and have been declining in recent years in most regions of the world, since they are highly susceptible to anthropogenic stressors operating at global scales (e.g., global warming...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Gabriela Mayorga Adame, Author ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge my co-advisors Hal

Creator:: Gutierrez, Jaime Gomez
Abstract:: I compare the seasonal abundance variation, population dynamics, fecundity, egg hatching mechanism and success, and apostome ciliate parasites of the euphausiids Euphausia pac?fica and Thysanoessa spinfera from the Oregon coast, USA. Community structure and nearshore distributions were examined from bi-weekly oceanographic surveys (1970-1972). This region has a strong cross-shelf change...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Euphausiids Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera in the Oregon Upwelling Region Abstract approved I

Creator:: Palacios, Daniel Mauricio
Abstract:: The objectives of this dissertation were to describe the complex oceanographic conditions around the Galápagos Archipelago (eastern equatorial Pacific), their seasonal variability, and their effects on patterns of cetacean occurrence. The physical and ecological factors leading to a plume of high phytoplankton biomass in the wake of the Galápagos were...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , representing Oceanography Dean of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sci Dean of the Graduate Shool I

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