Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2014-01-16)Subterranean estuaries are biogeochemical reactors within the coastal aquifer and represent a processing zone of dissolved chemical constituents prior to submarine groundwater discharge (SGD). Highly stratified hydrologic ...
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(2011-10-21)We collected 6,823 cloacal swabs over four years (2005–2006: 1,460; 2006– 2007: 2,171; 2007–2008: 2,424; and 2008–2009: 768) from 30 potential avian host species. Most samples (88.3 percent) were from dabbling ducks ...
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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, 2005-02-17)Multiple ecological factors can simultaneously affect species activity and community structure. The goal of my dissertation was to examine the effects of abiotic factors, biotic factors, and succession on anuran communities. ...
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Ecological Decentralization for Improving the Resilient Design of Urban Water Distribution Networks (2023-04-13)Urban water distribution networks have provided potable water to communities and households worldwide over the last century. Within the last two decades, there has been a rise in complications with water distribution systems ...
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(2022-07-20)Predators shape ecosystem function through direct and indirect effects on prey populations and other predators. Furthermore, co-occurrence of multiple predators is common in most ecosystems and interactions between them ...
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(2012-07-16)The ecological effects and mechanistic efficiency of chemical oil spill countermeasures must be evaluated prior to their ethical application during real spill response scenarios. Equally important is the ability to monitor ...
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(2019-07-30)Sex education is a broad term used to describe education about sexual reproduction, human sexual anatomy, sexual intercourse, and other aspects of human sexual behavior. Yet is absent from curriculum in Kindergarten through ...
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(2011-08-08)This mixed methods study investigates how ecological factors influence the decisions urban Hispanic middle school and high school adolescents make concerning their college and career aspirations. I examine the academic ...
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(2017-04-07)Host-associated differentiation (HAD) is a form of ecologically mediated host-race formation between parasite populations. Since HAD can ultimately lead to speciation, it has been proposed as a way to account for the vast ...
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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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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Scarce knowledge of Neotropical small mammal communities prevents experimental inquiry on the mechanisms structuring these communities. In this study, I examined patterns of local assembly of the small mammal communities ...
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(2015-05-11)The ecological roles of two entomopathogenic endophytes: Beauveria bassiana and Purpureocillium lilacinum (formerly Paecilomyces lilacinus), were investigated in both applied and basic studies utilizing cultivated cotton, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The two most common varieties of the grass Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.)Torr. in North America use different strategies of clonal growth and have contrasting continental distributions. Variety caespitosa (phalanx form) ...
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(2021-07-08)The identification of critical components in electric power grids is an important challenge power engineers face. Similarly, many ecologists face the challenge of identifying important species in food web networks. Drawing ...
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(2020-04-27)Several factors affect organisms involved in carrion decomposition, an ecological service where nutrients from heterotrophic biomass is recycled back into the ecosystem. Understanding how such factors impact these organisms ...
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(2023-07-26)Black male development continues to be theorized too often from deficit thinking, an ideology that supports intellectual, emotional, and racial inferiority. This three-article dissertation explores how Black men from various ...
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(2023-07-26)Black male development continues to be theorized too often from deficit thinking, an ideology that supports intellectual, emotional, and racial inferiority. This three-article dissertation explores how Black men from various ...
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(2023-05-22)Species conservation requires broad, multidisciplinary knowledge over topics such as habitat and climate preferences, reproduction cycles, and factors that may put a species at risk such as anthropogenic disturbances. ...
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(2023-05-22)Species conservation requires broad, multidisciplinary knowledge over topics such as habitat and climate preferences, reproduction cycles, and factors that may put a species at risk such as anthropogenic disturbances. ...