Browsing by Subject "paleoecology"
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(2008-08-19)Increasing attention has been directed towards paleoecolological studies in understanding the relationship between modern live communities and death assemblages as a means of better understanding fossil assemblages preserved ...
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Geoarchaeology, Paleoecology, and Holocene Subsistence Change on the Upper Snake River Plain, Idaho (2016-11-04)This dissertation presents new data on geochronology, site formation processes, projectile-point typology, and lithic technological organization in the Intermountain West’s Snake River Plain and Bonneville Basin, relating ...
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(2017-04-24)Beaver ponds contribute 0.8-1.0 million tons of atmospheric methane (CH4) emissions per year globally (Whitfield et al., 2014; Wik et al., 2016) and are found to be the largest CH4 emitters among all the wetland types in ...
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(2012-10-19)Albian (late Early Cretaceous) pollen and spores were used to reconstruct the floral history of Allison Guyot in the Albian period, to better understand pollen and spore distributions on mid-oceanic islands, to investigate ...
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(2018-03-07)Researchers interested in late-Pleistocene extinctions continue to debate the potential drivers of this event and, at times, do not even agree on the timing of extinction for various species in different regions. This ...
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(2016-10-28)The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), one of the largest climate shifts in the late Quaternary, was characterized by widespread, gradual global cooling accompanied by expansion of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets and a shift ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Thanks to previous work conducted by Staff et al. (1986), Copano Bay on the Texas coast presents an exceptional research area for studying 1) the effect of living volatility on death assemblage diversity and composition ...
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(2012-07-16)Conserving biodiversity in the current global ecological crisis requires a robust understanding of a multitude of abiotic and biotic processes operating at spatial and temporal scales that are nearly impossible to study ...