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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:: - deceased father, Paul, who always believed that the quest for knowledge was a valuable endeavor. Thanks to

Creator:: Crow, Susan E.
Abstract:: Soil organic matter (SOM) is the terrestrial biosphere's largest pool of organic carbon (C) and is an integral part of C cycling globally. Soil organic matter composition typically can be traced directly back to the type of detrital inputs; however, the stabilization of SOM results as a combination of chemical...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: terrestrial biosphere's largest pool of organic carbon (C) and is an integral part of C cycling globally

Creator:: Stein, Roy Wilfred
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . C. L. Mitchell, Production Manager of the Challenge Cream and Butter Association, in this study

Creator:: Zybach, Bob
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between land management practices of Indian communities prior to contact with Europeans and the nature or character of subsequent catastrophic forest fires in the Oregon Coast Range. The research focus is spatial and temporal patterns of Indian burning across the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: happened. --C. Raymond Clar (1959: 7) When the forest burned, fires were often of high intensity and

Creator:: Pentzer, Donald John
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of silver which may be dissolved by water at 200 C. is 0.036 mg. per liter in twenty-one days. They

Creator:: Gaston, Greg G.
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to develop methods for using geographic information system (GIS) analysis and unsupervised classification of Global Vegetation Index (GVI) images to improve carbon budget estimates of the former Soviet Union (FSU). A GIS was used to locate the geographic distribution and estimate the area of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: could rise between 1 and 5° C (Schneider, 1990). Global warming may further disrupt the equilibrium of

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