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Creator:: Sierra, Carlos Alberto
Abstract:: Ecosystems are highly heterogeneous systems subjected to important levels of environmental variability; however, it is common in terrestrial biogeochemical models to assume homogeneous properties of the elements of the system or constant environmental conditions. For some processes, heterogeneity in these models is treated very simplistically, but there is not much...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Science presented on December 11, 2009. Title: Environmental

Creator:: Leydet, David J.
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze an abrupt case of climate change in the past as a means to understand the mechanisms that force climate change. By looking to past analogs of climate change, we hopefully will gain an understanding of these events, which could be used to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Thank you all for your support, mentorship, and friendship. I also must thank the National Science

Creator:: Murphey, Virginia L. W.
Abstract:: There is a growing consensus that anthropogenic warming will impact soil organic matter (SOM). Globally, soil contains 2-3 times more carbon (C) than plants, and like plants, temperature induced change of SOM could have significant climate repercussions. Although, the majority of warming experiments have increased day and night temperatures equally,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 117.1 cm (National Climatic Data Center 2012). Corvallis, OR has a Mediterranean climate with wet

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:: through generous research assistantships from Bruce, a post-graduate scholarship from the National

Creator:: Brinker, Rachel K.
Abstract:: Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: corresponding analysis of the difficulties and joys of crossing cultural, national, racial, and class

Creator:: Pacella, Stephen R.
Abstract:: The variability of coastal carbonate chemistry continues to provide significant hurdles for understanding interactions between anthropogenic and natural CO2 cycling and resultant effects on coastal acidification dynamics. Attribution of the anthropogenic component is vital for identifying the impacts of increasing atmospheric carbon on coastal habitats such as coral reefs, upwelling...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Rochelle G. Labiosac, and Burke Halesb aWestern Ecology Division, National Health and Environmental

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