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Creator:: George, Elaine M.
Abstract:: The study collected data using ARCGIS Field Maps from a field survey of plants at six (6) sites in Fairfield County, CT. The sites included three (3) urban and three (3) suburban locations. A primary goal of this study was to determine whether there are differences in the extent of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Elaine M. George A Capstone Project Submitted to Oregon State University Forest Ecosystems and Society

Creator:: Pendergrass, Kathy L. (Connelly)
Abstract:: Fires set by Native Americans were important in shaping and maintaining Willamette Valley prairie plant communities. With fire exclusion after Euro-American settlement in the 1840's, composition of the remaining prairies shifted toward shrub and tree dominance with a concomitant decline in endemic prairie plant populations. I hypothesize that by restoring...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: plant communities at Rose Prairie and Fisher Butte study sites near Eugene, Oregon. Three treatments

Creator:: Zimmerman, Marisa
Abstract:: Resident and migratory avifauna in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are heavily influenced by winter conditions and habitat characteristics, especially those of wetlands. As such, it is important to monitor avian communities and environmental factors at wetland sites within the Willamette Valley during winter. Using data from standardized avian point-count surveys,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Resident and migratory avifauna in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are heavily influenced by winter

Creator:: Job, Carl
Abstract:: Groundwater overdraft in the Wilcox Groundwater Basin, as a consequence of increasing rates of agricultural groundwater withdrawal, has led to significant regional groundwater level decline and threatens to undermine the basin’s long-term water resource security. Updated characterization of the basin’s water resource conditions and agricultural water demand is critically important...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: by Carl Job A PROJECT submitted to Oregon State University

Creator:: Nagboth, Sai Rajkiran
Abstract:: Personalization is defined as a process that facilitates interaction among consumers and providers such that individual consumers are enabled to more readily access the content and services of providers, and individual providers are enabled to more effectively and easily deliver their content and services to consumers. This project presents a...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: the faculty of Oregon State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

Creator:: Idris, Hussam
Abstract:: Given the recent attention to dams in developing countries as a means to efficiently utilize water resources, mitigating the negative environmental and social impacts they have on riparian states is of utmost importance. This thesis presents a global review of how basin countries, through international water treaties (IWT), ensure that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Hussam Idris A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University

Creator:: Ellison, Kevin
Abstract:: Vietnam is considered one of the most climate change-vulnerable countries due to its high dependence on agriculture and its coastal location. Increased atmospheric temperatures caused by climate change also significantly threaten one of Vietnam's most important cash crops, robusta coffee (Coffea canephora). Suitable cultivation sites of robusta, which comprises 97%...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of

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