Browsing by Subject "ecology"
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A Herpetology Survey of Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary: A Nature Sanctuary West of Downtown Houston (2018-04-30)Urban herpetology “deals with the interaction of amphibians and reptiles and humans with each other and their environment in urban or urbanizing settings” (Mitchell et al. 2008). Miller (2006) urges that human experience ...
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(1985)The purpose of this study is to establish objective criteria for assessing environmental education literature for preschool children. Once the criteria have been established, literature can be applied to the scale and ...
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(2014-12-12)The Galápagos Islands are one of the most diverse marine ecosystems in the world because they lie at the confluence of several ocean currents in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (ETP). The Galápagos Marine Reserve (GMR) ...
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(2015-05-13)In ecological restoration, habitat managers intervene in a degraded ecosystem to aid its recovery. To assess a restored habitat, one or more characteristics such as biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and community structure ...
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(2020-01-30)Soil water availability influences the physiological, structural, and functional properties of plants. The physical properties of the soil play an important role in determining water availability, and shapes both the root ...
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(2012-10-29)Landscape fragmentation poses a major threat to biodiversity world-wide. The goal of my dissertation research was to determine the effects of landscape fragmentation on a lizard community in the Mescalero-Monahans shinnery ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Little current data exist concerning the status and ecology of Owens Valley vole (OVV; Microtus californicus vallicola), despite its California Department of Fish and Game listing as a Species of Special Concern. No formal ...
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(2009-05-15)Woody encroachment upon grasslands is a global trend that is cause for concern. In the Lampasas Cut Plain of Texas, Ashe juniper is the dominant woody invasive species. Grassland restoration is dependent upon proper seedbed ...
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(2020-06-24)Black mangroves (Avicennia germinans) are becoming increasingly common in coastal wetlands along the Gulf of Mexico (USA). As mangroves displace salt marsh vegetation, there may be consequences for predator-prey interactions ...
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(2020-06-17)In the past century the San Jacinto Estuary (SJE), including the Houston Ship Channel (HSC) and its surrounding area, has experienced a significant increase in industrialization and urbanization. As a result of industrialization, ...
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(2016-12-05)Torpedograss (Panicum repens) is a non-indigenous perennial species of rhizomatous graminaceous grass that currently persists along the majority of the vegetated shoreline of Lake Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas. For this ...
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(2018-04-24)Deepwater Horizon (DWH) was the largest offshore oil spill in the petroleum industry’s history. For a total of 87 days, approximately 3.19 million gallons of oil and natural gas seeped into the Gulf of Mexico. DWH altered ...
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(2012-02-14)The gastrointestinal (GI) tract of cats and dogs is inhabited by many different types of microorganisms, known as the GI microbiota. Mounting evidence suggests that the administration of certain dietary and/or therapeutic ...
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The focus of this research is to explore the possibility that Australasians contributed to modern indigenous South American populations during and after the time when the major peopling events of the Americas are thought ...
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(2021-06-18)Inadequate nutrition, particularly in terms of pollen acquisition, has been attributed as one of the primary reasons for poor honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony health. This can be due to changes in the landscape and the ...
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(2018-07-27)The goal of this study stems from one primary question: how are black women’s futures currently being imagined in works of cultural production? In this dissertation, I make the case that speculative and science fiction is ...
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(2020-08-12)The termite genus Reticulitermes contains species that are important wood decomposers and major economic pests. In the U.S., there are eight species of Reticulitermes, many of which broadly overlap geographically. These ...
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(2017-04-24)Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees that coexist with marsh grasses and forbs at subtropical latitudes. Occasional freeze events keep mangroves from completely overgrowing marsh plants. There have not been severe freeze ...
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(2019-11-18)Habitat change is widely considered the primary cause of biodiversity loss and the expansion of infrastructure, especially roads, will bring ecological consequences to biodiversity. Consequences of roads on biodiversity ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Much of the world's species diversity is located in tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems, and a better understanding of the ecology of these systems is necessary to stem biodiversity loss and assess community- and ...