Marginal agricultural and forest lands are currently a focus of concern for public land use agencies in Oregon. Two alternatives for evaluating marginal agricultural lands are the Land Evaluation and Site Assessment (LESA) model of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service and the marginal lands criteria of the 1983 Oregon Legislature's...
Marginal agricultural land is currently a focus of concern for
public land use agencies in Oregon. Two approaches for evaluating marginal
agricultural lands are the Land Evaluation and Site Assessment (LESA) model
of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, and the marginal lands criteria of
the 1983 Oregon Legislature's Senate Bill...
Spectral patterns of three brush species under the influence of herbicide treatment were investigated to evaluate the effectiveness of monitoring forest vegetation management using ground-based and remote sensing techniques. Foliage of Pacific rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum D. Don), golden chinkapin (Castanopsis chrysophylla Dougl.), and hairy manzanita (Arctostaphylos columbiana Piper) sprayed with...
Delta-Sigma Modulator-based Analog-to-Digital converter design is an active area of research. New topologies require extensive simulations to verify their performance. A series of improvements were made to an existing circuit simulation package in order to speed the simulation process for the designer. Various examples of these improvements are presented in...
The internal moisture stress of Douglas-fir was determined on foliage collected in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon. Internal moisture stress integrates both climatic and edaphic environmental effects as they influence a plants moisture regime. In this study two laboratory techniques were modified to permit stress measurements to be taken...
This thesis presents two related studies on the methodology for creating, and
subsequently analyzing, an inverse food web model of an intertidal seagrass bed. The first study (Chapter 2) describes, for the first time in the literature, a method for incorporating isotopic information gained from Bayesian mixing models into an...
This study was undertaken to quantitatively evaluate the
relationship between silvering of the skin of juvenile coho
salmon, due to the deposition of the purines guanine and
hypoxanthine, and adaptation to seawater. It was hypothesized
that maximum purine deposition occurs at the time these fish
normally enter seawater, that the...
C-methyltransferase
(HIOMT) in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus
tshawytscha). Various body tissues, as well as several
morphological brain divisions were tested for the presence
of HIOMT. Activity was found in the retina, the dorsal
portion of the diencephalon, and in the pineal gland of
chinook. However, the activity was significantly higher
in...