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Title: An Examination of the Impact of Urbanization on Stream Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
Author: ROUX, ANTHONY
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Entomology
Description: The "Urban Stream Syndrome" is a term that refers to a group of predictable negative impacts to stream ecosystems due to the alteration of the natural hydrologic regime that is associated with urbanization. These negative impacts include increases...

Title: Circadian behavior and gene expression in an estuarine cnidarian, Nematostella vectensis
Author: Leach, Whitney
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Ecology
Description: Animals respond to diurnal shifts in their environment with a combination of behavioral, physiological, and molecular changes to synchronize with regularly-timed external cues. The light:dark cycle is regarded as the most important entrainment cue...

Title: Effects of the Urban Heat Island on Anurans in Remnant and Stormwater Control Ponds in the Charlotte Metropolitan Region
Author: Boucher, Adrienne
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology
Description: The urban heat island (UHI) has been documented to increase urban air temperatures compared to rural areas, but little is known about the effects of UHI-induced meteorology on anuran breeding and diversity. My research objective is to understand h...

Title: Environmental Influences on the Activity Patterns of Three Species of Semi-Free Ranging Lemurs at the Lemur Conservation Foundation’s Myakka City Lemur Reserve
Author: Richardson, Abby
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences, Ecology, Animal scientists
Description: Cathemerality is a unique and flexible activity pattern found mostly in lemurs. Cathemeral lemurs exhibit relatively evenly distributed activity across the 24-hour period. Although some species of lemur are broadly recognized as being cathemeral, ...

Title: Evaluating invertebrate community diversity using eDNA for biomonitoring in freshwater ecosystems.
Author: Rowe, Rachael
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Aquatic sciences, Ecology, Environmental sciences
Description: Traditional invertebrate biomonitoring has low taxonomic resolution, low accuracy, and is plagued with human error and biases. Molecular monitoring, using environmental DNA (eDNA), is a practical alternative due to the high accuracy, lack of human...

Title: Evaluating the Efficacy of Whole-Watershed Stream Restoration: Implications for Groundwater Storage, Water Quality, and Suspended Solids in a Piedmont Urban Forest Watershed
Author: Petitt, Destini
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Hydrology, Geochemistry, Ecology
Description: The quality and quantity of water in degraded watersheds (i.e.: watersheds undergoing changing land-use, urbanization, agricultural use) may be impaired compared to undisturbed forested watersheds. To enhance the ecosystem function of impaired wat...

Title: Frontiers in invasive species distribution modeling (iSDM): Assessing effects of absence data, dispersal constraints, stage of invasion and spatial dependence
Author: Vaclavik, Tomas
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Ecology, Physical geography
Description: Successful management of biological invasions depends heavily on our ability to predict their geographic ranges and potential habitats. Species distribution modeling (SDM) provides a methodological framework to predict spatial distributions of org...

Title: INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON PHYSIOLOGY OF MARINE BIVALVES
Author: Matoo, Omera
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Ecology
Description: The continuing increase of carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere leads to increase in sea-surface temperature and causes ocean acidification altering seawater carbonate chemistry. Estuarine and shallow coastal areas, which are hotspots for...

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 ...

Title: Impervious Cover Thresholds of the North Carolina Piedmont Fish Assemblage
Author: Webster, Patrick
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Ecology, Natural resources--Management
Description: Researchers have placed emphasis on quantifying and identifying ecological thresholds to study biological responses to urbanization. As watersheds become urbanized, they exhibit a systemic pattern of degradation that disrupts the natural biogeoche...

Title: Moving right along: The effect of habitat type on ranging patterns in white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) in western Thailand
Author: Sobaszek, Margaret
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Animal scientists, Wildlife management
Description: White-handed gibbons are found through Southeast Asia, but little is known about how they adapt to lower quality resources. At Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary in Western Thailand, these gibbons inhabit a heterogeneous landscape that encompasses...

Title: Polystyrene particle uptake and their potential to act as a trojan horse to oysters (Crassostrea virginica)
Author: Gaspar, Tamara
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology, Cytology
Description: The global annual usage of plastics has increased dramatically over the last decade. Polystyrene is the fourth most common plastic material produced annually due to its many versatile applications. Consequently, there has been a coinciding increas...

Title: Recovery of macroinvertebrate communities following flood disturbance in urban restored streams, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Henderson, Sara
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Environmental management
Description: Flooding is an important disturbance structuring stream communities. Understanding macroinvertebrate post flood dynamics is critical for informing key ecosystem processes such as food web dynamics and organic matter processing in these systems. Wh...

Title: SYMBIOSIS ACROSS DIET-INDUCED PHENOTYPES OF LARVAL SEA URCHINS
Author: Carrier, Tyler
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Ecology, Aquatic sciences
Description: Larval sea urchins have served as a fundamental system for understanding development, phenotypic plasticity, and life-history evolution over much of the last century. In the recent decade, this understanding has begun to extend to the microbiota a...

Title: Strangers in a new land: the effects of ecology on female social relationships, Macaca mulatta, Ocala National Forest, Florida
Author: Johnson, Adam
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences, Ecology, Animal scientists
Description: Despite the vast research into rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) social behavior, little is known about how they adapt to novel environments, particularly in cases where they experience little or no between-group competition and are not provisioned....

Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HYDROLOGIC AND MACROINVERTEBRATE METRICS ALONG AN URBANIZATION GRADIENT IN PIEDMONT HEADWATER STREAMS
Author: Black, Rebecca
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology, Hydrology
Description: Urban streams are characterized by altered hydrographs, increased nutrient concentrations, altered geomorphology, and decreased biodiversity. This study asked how the hydrologic flow regime impacts stream macroinvertebrates in Piedmont headwater s...

Title: THE ROLE OF URBAN GREEN ROOFS AS INVERTEBRATE HABITAT
Author: Merritt, Danielle
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sustainability, Environmental sciences, Ecology
Description: Developed countries witnessed an 80% expansion of urban land use between 1990 and 2015. This is leading to degradation of ecosystems and habitats, resulting in a general loss of biodiversity in urban areas. I investigated the habitat potential of ...

Title: The Influence of Road, Road Verge and Landscape Characteristics on the Occurrence of Raptor-Vehicle Collisions
Author: Bates, Jennifer
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Ecology, Wildlife conservation
Description: The increasing prevalence of roads has had a corresponding impact on the risk of road mortality for wildlife, particularly for avian species such as birds of prey that commonly make use of foraging opportunities along roadside verges. Birds of pre...

Title: The Relationship between School Built Environment and Student Achievement in Pakistan
Author: Begum, Nahida
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology, Education and state
Description: Schools in Pakistan face many challenges, ranging from lack of qualified teachers to insufficient teaching resources. Another obstacle is the low quality of school built environment. Some important built environment factors include an available wa...

Title: The influence of wastewater treatment on community dynamics among antibiotic-resistant bacteria during treatment, stream release, and biosolids land application.
Author: Sorgen, Alicia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Ecology
Description: Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are a key link between anthropogenic activity and the environment, facilitating the development and horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance among populations of commensal environmental microorganisms and cli...