Ecosystems are shaped by processes occurring and interacting over multiple
temporal and spatial scales. Theory suggests such complexity can be simplified by focusing on
processes sharing the same scale as the pattern of interest. This scale-dependent approach to
studying communities has been challenged by multiscale meta-ecosystem theory, which
recognizes that...
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North-
eastern UnitedStates lakes (Soranno et al. 2014).
This strong empirical evidence of spatial
Obtaining accurate estimates of animal abundance is made difficult by the fact that most
animal species are detected imperfectly. Early attempts at building likelihood models that
account for unknown detection probability impose a simplifying assumption unrealistic for
many populations, however: no births, deaths, migration or emigration can occur in the...
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DISSERTATION
submitted to
Oregon State University
in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the
degree
The thesis area comprises 53 square miles located in Beaverhead County, Montana, and includes the Argenta mining district. Sedimentary and igneous rocks of the area range in age from Precambrian to Recent. The aggregate thickness of the sedimentary rocks is approximately 13,500 feet. The only systems not represented are Ordovician...
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, with a scale of approximately 1:16, 000, which were
purchased from the Montana Forest Service. The
Devonian carbonate rocks of the southern Hot Creek Range reflect a shift to the east of the carbonate shelf edge and a progressively deeper-water lithotope from late
Early Devonian to early Middle Devonian time. Lower Devonian mudstones of the McColley Canyon Formation were deposited on an open shelf, dolomitized, and...
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submitted to
Oregon State University
in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the
degree of
The Horseshoe Gulch area includes 16 square miles in the
Eastern Paleozoic Belt of the Klamath Mountains geologic province
north of Callahan, California. Fossiliferous Late Ordovician and
Silurian limestones and unfossiliferous greywackes, arkoses, shales,
mudstones, schists, and phyllites, and other terrigenous clastic
rocks are exposed in a broad fault zone...
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was done by H. Duncan of the UnitedStates Geological
Survey (Strand, 1963) who felt that the fauna