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...
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...
We investigated the use of output from Bayesian stable isotope mixing models as constraints for a linear inverse food web model of a temperate intertidal seagrass system in the Marennes-Oléron Bay, France. Linear inverse modeling (LIM) is a technique that estimates a complete network of flows in an under-determined system...
In the southern Fish Creek Range, Nye County Nevada,
Devonian rocks are found overlying younger rocks. These
Devonian units are allochthonous blocks that slid by
gravity into their present positions.
The allochthonous blocks represent several different
provenances commonly found to the west and northwest of the
area. The blocks include...
In the southern Fish Creek Range, Nye County Nevada,
Devonian rocks are found overlying younger rocks. These
Devonian units are allochthonous blocks that slid by
gravity into their present positions.
The allochthonous blocks represent several different
provenances commonly found to the west and northwest of the
area. The blocks include...
In the southern Fish Creek Range, Nye County Nevada,
Devonian rocks are found overlying younger rocks. These
Devonian units are allochthonous blocks that slid by
gravity into their present positions.
The allochthonous blocks represent several different
provenances commonly found to the west and northwest of the
area. The blocks include...
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Range, Nye County, Nevada
AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF
RogerStephen Sans for the degree of Master of
In the southern Fish Creek Range, Nye County Nevada,
Devonian rocks are found overlying younger rocks. These
Devonian units are allochthonous blocks that slid by
gravity into their present positions.
The allochthonous blocks represent several different
provenances commonly found to the west and northwest of the
area. The blocks include...
Relieving phosphorus loading is a key management tool for controlling Lake Erie eutrophication. During the
1960s and 1970s, increased phosphorus inputs degraded water quality and reduced central basin hypolimnetic
oxygen levels which, in turn, eliminated thermal habitat vital to cold-water organisms and contributed to the
extirpation of important benthic macroinvertebrate...
Lateral stirring is a basic oceanographic phenomenon affecting the distribution of physical, chemical, and biological fields. Eddy stirring at scales on the order of 100 km (the mesoscale) is fairly well understood and explicitly represented in modern eddy-resolving numerical models of global ocean circulation. The same cannot be said for...