Browsing by Department "Ecology and Conservation Biology"
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(2022-04-19)Disease outbreaks in intensive aquaculture, particularly from bacterial pathogens, represent major constraints to efficient fish production, necessitating development of novel and innovative disease treatment and prevention ...
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(2022-07-25)Biodiversity decline is occurring at an unprecedented rate, with land-use change as a leading driver. Biodiversity loss reduces ecosystem functioning, which also negatively affects human societies whose livelihoods are ...
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(2022-08-01)Savannas have undergone extensive amount of woody plant encroachment (WPE) over the past two centuries. The process of WPE can substantially alter the hydrology of a landscape. However, our understanding of ecohydrology ...
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(2020-11-22)Bottomland hardwood forests (BHFs) along the Gulf coast of Texas have been experiencing a combination of disturbances in the form of hydroclimate changes and excessive anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition, both of which ...
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(2023-06-07)Anthropogenic nutrient deposition and large-scale disturbances are two prominent and pervasive drivers of global change in grassland ecosystems. Both of these drivers cause changes in grassland community dynamics and plant ...
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(2021-04-26)There are few other regions that have been as significantly altered by woody plant encroachment (WPE) as the Southern Great Plains (SGP) of the United States. The transition from an oak savanna to a shrubland mosaic ...
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(2023-08-07)Pterygoplichthys in LPR relative to SPR. In LPR, native fishes rely more on watercolumn resources compared to SPR where benthic resources are more important for fish body mass. The relative biomass of the invader was ...
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(2021-11-17)Two indoor feeding trials were conducted to investigate the effects of dietary superdosing of Quantum Blue® phytase on the growth performance, as well as mineral and amino acid utilization of juvenile channel catfish ...
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(2022-11-13)Anthropogenically-driven climate change combined with existing ecosystem degradation is projected to cause future losses of global freshwater biodiversity, particularly in arid areas within temperate climate regions. ...
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(2021-10-27)There continues to be a pressing need to develop alternative protein feedstuffs to reduce dependence on fishmeal (FM) and other costly ingredients and thereby increase the sustainability and potential expansion of global ...
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(2022-03-28)Climate change induces environmental concerns such as rising temperatures, increasing droughts, and more fires. The risk of large fires has increased over the past decades, causing threats to forest growth and biosphere ...
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(2021-12-10)The Colorado River of Texas no longer provides direct freshwater flows to the wetlands of East Matagorda Bay, and a few small basins, such as that of Big Boggy Creek, provide the only inflowing freshwater. The upstream ...
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(2023-04-21)Animals are in constant interaction with single-celled organisms. These microbes inhabit an animal’s environment as well as most surfaces of the body, including the skin and gut. The intimate relationship animals have with ...
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Linking Thresholds in Avian Body Condition and Habitat Usage to Short and Long Term Climatic Events (2023-04-21)I conducted a series of studies focused on the central theme of avian response to disturbance. As climate change and altered disturbance regimes continue to affect ecological communities, thoroughly understanding the ...
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(2022-01-07)Cryptic diversity is the occurrence of two or more morphologically indistinguishable lineages within a species that are evolutionarily distinct. Tropical rainforests and marine habitats are the most species-rich habitat ...
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(2022-12-09)Phenology, the timing of life-cycle events and phases of plants and animals, and their relationship with the environment, especially climate, is an integrative record of the effects of global warming and other environmental ...
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(2021-09-01)Understanding how factors such as precipitation, nutrients, disturbances, and herbivory alter herbaceous cover in a savanna is imperative for conserving biological diversity and critical savanna ecosystem functions. This ...
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(2021-12-08)Anthropogenic effects on the environment are an irrefutable actuality. Understanding how environmental changes affect organismal fitness, ecology, morphology, and evolution is critical for managing natural systems and ...
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(2023-01-17)I conducted a series of experiments focused on a central theme of stream fish spatial ecology in the Southern Great Plains. Movement, or physical change in location, is a spatial construct that most organisms require for ...
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(2022-07-25)Flow alteration is one of the greatest threats to freshwater fish conservation. As climate change exacerbates existing demand for freshwater resources and depletes and fragments riverine habitats, conservation and management ...