This dissertation addresses three questions focused on enhancing our understanding of the impacts of urbanization and land cover change on patterns of native biodiversity, the distribution of exotic plant species in forests, and the resistance of ...
Forests are increasingly affected by a variety of environmental disturbances, including emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and wildfire, which have caused extensive tree mortality in forest biomass worldwide. Those two types of disturbances may i...
The purpose of this dissertation research was to analyze the ecology of thereintroduced red wolf (Canis rufus) population on the Albemarle Peninsula, NC and determine variables such as intraspecific interactions among red wolves, and how the speci...