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  • Patterns, causes, and consequences of clustering of individual territories of the threespot damselfish, Stegastes planifrons

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    Meadows, Dwayne W.
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    The threespot damselfish, Stegastes planifrons, maintains individual territories that are clustered on coral patch reefs. My objective was to understand the effects of territory clustering on behavior and fitness. Fish with territories in the center of a cluster had (relative to edge fish): higher mating success (number of eggs), higher...
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology presented on 27 September 1994 Title: Patterns, Causes and

  • Approaches to the synthesis of trichothecenes

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    Kim, No-soo
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    no precedent in which a 4-pyranone operated as a dienophile in the Diels -Alder reaction,37 3

  • Natural history and evolution of a color polymorphism in Rana pipiens, the northern leopard frog

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    Hoffman, Eric A.
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    A primary goal of population genetics is to identify the role of microevolutionary forces in producing observed patterns of molecular and phenotypic variation. I conducted four studies in the northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens, to determine just how mutation, migration, genetic drift, and selection influenced, genetic structure of mitochondrial DNA...
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    the design and data analysis of the studies reported in Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5. Because of his

  • Mass transport in laboratory water wave flumes

    Creator:
    Kim, Tae In
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    A complete solution, exact to second-order, for wave motion forced by a hinged-wavemaker of variable-draft is presented. A solution for a piston type wavemaker is also obtained as a special case of a hinged-wavemaker with negative infinite draft. The existing Stokes inviscid theories for mass transport is extended to include...
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    at kx = n/4; H/Lo = .0625, h/Lo = .20 [Case 7-B in Dean (1974) ] 104 3-4 Variation of Mass Transport

  • Quasi-stationary atmospheric responses to large-scale forcing

    Creator:
    Kang, In-sik
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    A time-dependent, spectral, barotropic model and a similar two-layer primitive equation model are developed to investigate the planetary-scale wave responses to various types of large-scale forcing: vorticity and heat sources, and sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies. Both models are linearized about the zonal mean states of January climatology. The characteristics...
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    CHAPTER 4. FORCED WAVE RESPONSES IN BAROTROPIC ATMOSPHERES ....................................... 42 4.1

  • Development of an information processing capacity estimation method for managing a project subjected to disruptions

    Creator:
    Ro, In Kyu
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    This dissertation is an attempt at developing a method for the analysis and estimation of the effects of disruptions due to uncertainties. Such uncertainties may result from design changes and engineering drawing delays in large-scale, complex, research and development, or construction projects. In order to provide management with a simple...
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    Activity 4 Design Changes and Engineering Drawing Delays as Uncertainties 5 The Significance of the Study

  • Ecological aspects of kin discriminating behavior with implications of functional value

    Creator:
    Hokit, D. Grant
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    To assess the context dependence of kin discriminating behavior, I examined kin-biased aggregation behavior in tadpoles of R. cascadae in different ecological conditions. I manipulated food distribution, predator presence, thermal heterogeneity, and relatedness in a multifactorial mesocosm experiment. All four factors interacted to influence tadpole dispersion. My results suggest that...
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    Philosophy in Zoology presented on August 18, 1994 . Title: Ecological Aspects of Kin Discriminating

  • Cannibalism in larvae of the long-toed salamander, Ambystoma macrodactylum

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    Wildy, Erica Lynn
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    Predator-prey interactions have historically been studied to explain patterns of organization observed in populations and communities. They have also been important in understanding the evolution of antipredator responses in prey and counterstrategies in predators. Despite the breadth of knowledge that exists for heterospecific interactions, relatively few studies have investigated the...
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    macrodactylum AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Erica L. Wildy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology

  • Seedling recruitment of hairy nightshade and other summer annual weeds in irrigated row crops

    Creator:
    Peachey, Ronald Edward
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    This study evaluated the effects of tillage system, rotational tillage sequences, and winter seed burial depth on weed seedling recruitment in irrigated cropping systems. Notill (NT) planting of vegetable crops reduced emergence of hairy nightshade by 77 to 99% and Powell amaranth emergence from 50 to 87% compared to conventional...
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    in Irrigated Vegetable Row Crops .............................................. 4 Abstract

  • Chemical signaling and pheromone evolution in plethodontid salamanders

    Creator:
    Palmer, Catherine Anne
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    My dissertation focuses on the evolutionary forces that have shaped the chemical signaling system of plethodontid salamanders. Pheromones mediate two phases of plethodontid reproduction: mate attraction prior to courtship and female persuasion during courtship. Substrate-borne chemical signals are believed to play an important role in mate attraction for these animals....
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    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology presented on May 28th, 2004 Title: Chemical Signaling