Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Department "Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences"
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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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(2016-08-15)Herpetofaunal communities have been monitored intermittently on the Matador Wildlife Management Area for the past 12 years in an attempt to understand and track species’ responses to habitat changes. This study analyzed ...
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SHRIMP CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES IN THE GULF OF MEXICO (2013-02-04)The commercial shrimp harvest is the second most important fishery in the United States, and eighty percent of this harvest by weight is caught in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Survival rate in the post larval stage in GOM ...
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The nectar-feeding Mexican long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis or L. nivalis) population has been experiencing a steep decline over the past ten years. Conservation of this species is vital for the mutualistic relationship ...
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(2014-09-12)ABSTRACT The Dietary Tryptophan Requirement of Juvenile Red Drum. (May 2015) Emily Pewitt Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Texas A&M University Research Advisor: Dr. Delbert M. Gatlin III Department of ...
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(2012-07-11)Ecological theory suggests morphology should be linked to foraging mode and strategy. This study was conducted to determine the possible relationship between morphology and diet of a monophyletic group of lizards in the ...
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(2013-02-04)Maternally-transmitted associations between endosymbiotic bacteria and insects are pervasive in nature, and vary from commensalism to mutualism to parasitism. The association between the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster ...
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(2018-04-23)One of the most endangered marine mammals in the coastal areas of the United States is the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). The Florida manatee population has been increasing and decreasing since 1991 along ...
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(2018-04-19)Deepwater Horizon (DWH) was the largest offshore oil spill in US history. The result was approximately 3.19 million barrels of oil being released into the ocean. Deepwater Horizon significantly affected the Gulf of Mexico ...
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(2017-04-24)In the Antarctic, blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) feed primarily on Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), which feed primarily on under-ice algae. The retreat of the Antarctic ice shelf may pose potentially serious ...
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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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(2013-12-16)The identification of larval fishes is difficult due to their small size and transparent nature. Deciphering between different species placed within the same genus or even family can prove near impossible. Literature ...
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The introduction of invasive species in marine environments is rare but detrimental to the existence of native species. The Indo-Pacific lionfish species (Pterois volitans and P. miles) recently has invaded coral reefs ...
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(2014-10-01)Few studies have been conducted related to mammalian diversity in the transitional montane cloud forest region of Costa Rica. It is critical that the void in available data be filled in order to support future research ...
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(2017-04-27)Dissolved Neodymium (Nd) in the ocean is often used as a water mass tracer to reconstruct what the oceanic circulation in a certain area may have looked like in the past (van de Flierdt et al. 2012). The incorporated Nd ...
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(2017-04-24)Increasing focus has been placed on snakes and their role in the ecosystem. As a key predator in longleaf pine ecosystems, the eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) feeds on a variety of taxa, but recent studies have ...