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Investigating variation in immunity and infection risk in wild ungulates

Creator:: Dugovich, Brian S.
Abstract:: In the midst of the sixth mass extinction, understanding wildlife disease spillover is critical to maintaining protected wildlife areas. Studying ecoimmunology and wildlife disease ecology helps to understand immune and disease traits in an ecological context, which is invaluable in preventing pathogen spillover between livestock and wildlife. To investigate this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the manuscript. Chapter 2: Dr. Melanie J. Peel (M.J.P.)* was co-author with me on this manuscript

Dogs, Death, and Dietary Breadth: Insights into the Macroecology and Macroevolution of Canidae

Creator:: Tanis, Brian P.
Abstract:: The size, shape, and stability of a species’ dietary niche can both influence and reflect a variety of biological patterns, including species interactions, extinction risk, and ecosystem function. This is particularly apparent when dietary changes manifest at ecosystem and clade scales to profoundly affect macroecological and macroevolutionary trajectories. However, many...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: University for hosting and assisting me in scanning molds, specifically: Eva Biedron, Melissa Pardi, Greg

Marine Mass Mortality in a Global Change Context: Impacts on Individuals, Populations and Communities

Creator:: Sullivan Stack, Jenna
Abstract:: Human actions are pushing natural systems into states that have no historical precedent. In response, empirical and theoretical researchers are increasingly focused on developing ways to predict the responses of ecological systems to change. However, significant knowledge gaps remain, often leading to “ecological surprises” where observed impacts of global change...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-010213- 135029 Burton, T., Killen, S. S., Armstrong, J. D

Invasive Pacific Lionfish Alters Native Community Interactions on Atlantic Coral Reefs

Creator:: Kindinger, Tye L.
Abstract:: Biological invasions have been identified as one of the prominent drivers of global environmental change. In particular, invasive predators typically have substantial negative effects on populations of native prey, even driving species to extinction in extreme cases. However, beyond direct predatory effects, little is understood regarding the specific mechanisms by...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of length- weight conversions parameters for Caribbean coral-reef fishes, and assisted Melissa

Changing Climate, Changing Contexts : Variation in Rocky Intertidal Predator-prey Interactions Seen Through an Environmental Stress Framework

Creator:: Cerny-Chipman, Elizabeth B.
Abstract:: The multifaceted role of the environment in regulating the structure and dynamics of biological communities has long fascinated ecologists and motivated much debate and research. Now, in a time of accelerated global changes due to human impacts, the need to understand how the environment shapes communities has gained new urgency....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Courtney Jackson, Dani Smull, Kersten Schnurle, Melissa Britsch, and Silke Bachhuber, who is joining our

Cost to Biomphalaria glabrata of Resisting Infection by Schistosoma mansoni

Creator:: Sergi, Clint
Abstract:: Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic trematodes in the genus Schistosoma. 200 million people are infected with schistosomes. Schistosomiasis causes acute and chronic disease, and may lead to death in chronic infections. Schistosomes have a complex life cycle that requires passage through a snail intermediate host. Understanding...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Singing behavior of the Bewick's wren : development, dialects, population structure, and geographical variation

Creator:: Kroodsma, Donald E.
Abstract:: The songs of the Bewick's Wren are discrete units of one to three seconds duration with intersong intervals several times the length of the song. Individual song repertoires at the William Finley National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon, range from 13 to 20 song types, and a given song type is repeated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: offered thoughtful suggestions throughout the study- - I thank especially F. Gibson, S. G. Martin, J. M

Coral-reef fishes : insights into larval dispersal and invasion ecology

Creator:: Pusack, Timothy J.
Abstract:: Because many coral-reef fishes are observable in situ, are amenable to transplantation, have small home ranges and short generation times, they provide a excellent system to investigate many topics within general ecology, fisheries biology, and conservation biology. The primary goal of this dissertation was to use the coral-reef fishes system...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Invasion Ecology AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Timothy J. Pusack for the degree of Doctor of

Bridging environmental physiology and community ecology : temperature effects at the community level

Creator:: Iles, Alison C.
Abstract:: Most climate change predictions focus on the response of individual species to changing local conditions and ignore species interactions, largely due to the lack of a sound theoretical foundation for how interactions are expected to change with climate and how to incorporate them into climate change models. Much of the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: databases for me; my Work Study students, Melissa Prechtl and Kyle Jones, for processing the bulk of my

Modulation of respiratory burst activity of trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) phagocytic cells

Creator:: Galvan, Irja S.
Abstract:: In a comparison of the mammalian and fish immune systems many similarities and differences are found. While most of the differences occur in the acquired or lymphoid arm of immunity, the nonlymphoid immune systems of fish and mammals share many similarities. For instance, both animal groups use phagocytic neutrophils and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Privacy Redacted for Privacy ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to thank my advisor, Christopher J. Bayne, for

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Investigating variation in immunity and infection risk in wild ungulates

Dogs, Death, and Dietary Breadth: Insights into the Macroecology and Macroevolution of Canidae

Marine Mass Mortality in a Global Change Context: Impacts on Individuals, Populations and Communities

Invasive Pacific Lionfish Alters Native Community Interactions on Atlantic Coral Reefs

Changing Climate, Changing Contexts : Variation in Rocky Intertidal Predator-prey Interactions Seen Through an Environmental Stress Framework

Cost to Biomphalaria glabrata of Resisting Infection by Schistosoma mansoni

Singing behavior of the Bewick's wren : development, dialects, population structure, and geographical variation

Coral-reef fishes : insights into larval dispersal and invasion ecology

Bridging environmental physiology and community ecology : temperature effects at the community level

Modulation of respiratory burst activity of trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) phagocytic cells

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