Importance of tenure structures is often ignored in agricultural
development planning in India. Emphasis instead is commonly
placed on agro-techniques for increasing productivity to meet the
growing needs of food supply. To evaluate the affects of institutionalized
tenure structure on agricultural efficiency, two pairs of contiguous
districts from Madhya Pradesh,...
This dissertation focused on data mining in food science research and on the technical functional properties of wheat straw-derived biorefinery-byproduct fiber preparations as related to potential applications as food ingredients. This first study evaluated the importance of electronic bibliographic database selection and multiple database usage during the information retrieval phase...
The life history traits of polygamous, non-territorial shorebirds like the Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) can make it challenging to assess their population status. There are two general approaches to statistical inference used to understand shorebird (Order: Charadriiformes) population change: design-based inference, which implements an a-priori sampling scheme with known selection...
The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) in Prince William Sound, Alaska provided impetus for a great deal of research into the ecosystems of the Northern Gulf of Alaska. Buried within the multitude of resulting impacts, which included hundreds of thousands of oiled seabirds and dramatic ecosystem shifts in the...
More than 1500 species of plants and animals in the United States are listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The U.S. Departments of Interior and Commerce are required, under Section 4(f)(1) of the ESA, to develop recovery plans for ESA-listed species under the respective agency...
Seed vigor tests have been developed to evaluate the relative ability of seed lots to produce stands of seedlings in the field. Some workers have suggested the possibility of differentiating vigor levels by germinating seeds under osmotic stress, but have not conducted field trials to evaluate the usefulness of the...
In order to describe long term creep behavior of structural lumber in a natural
environment, a bending test with twenty Douglas-Fir beams subjected to a constant
load was set up in an open shed in the Forest Research Laboratory at Oregon State
University. Deflections of the beams were measured along...
Landscape plants are highly diverse and nursery producers often grow thousands of taxa to satisfy the varied needs and aesthetic tastes of consumers. Related to this diversity, ornamental plant breeders must be nimble and diverse in their approach. Two seemingly disparate studies were conducted to investigate improving ornamental shrubs –...
The objectives of this study were to: 1) determine production
of plant species and utilization by cattle, sheep and deer as related
to plant communities and timber management practices and 2) evaluate
the interaction of range use between cattle and deer and between sheep
and deer as affected by site...