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Title: Probe-Based Visual Analysis of Geospatial Simulations
Author: Butkiewicz, Thomas
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: This work documents the design, development, refinement, and evaluation of probes as an interaction technique for expanding both the usefulness and usability of geospatial visualizations, specifically those of simulations. Existing applications th...

Title: Multi-sensor Remote Sensing for Understanding the Interacting Environmental Disturbances of Forest Fire and Plant Disease
Author: He, Yinan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: 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...

Title: The endangered red wolf (Canis rufus): spatial ecology of a critically imperiled species in a human-dominated landscape
Author: Karlin, Melissa
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Wildlife conservation, Wildlife management
Description: 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...

Title: Impacts of urbanization and landscape change on native plant diversity and the distribution of exotic forest invaders
Author: Davis, Amy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Environmental sciences, Ecology
Description: 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 ...