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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
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Projecting boreal bird responses to climate change considering uncertainty, refugia, vegetation lags, and post-glaciation history
DownloadSpring 2016
Often referred to as North America’s bird nursery, the boreal forest biome provides a productive environment for breeding birds, supporting high species diversity and bird numbers. These birds are likely to shift their distributions northward in response to rapid climate change over the next
) model uncertainty in current and future projections, (2) time lags in ecosystem responses to climate change, (3) the static nature of correlative models, and (4) the influence of historical biogeography in determining current distributions. In my first chapter, using a continental-scale avian dataset
younger forest. In my third chapter, I developed a hybrid modelling approach based on topo-edaphically constrained projections of climate-driven vegetation change potential, coupled with weather- and fuel-based simulations of future wildfires, and projections of large-scale industrial development
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Fall 2017
The degree to which predator and prey distributions overlap in space influences the probability of encounters between predator and prey, kills of prey, and consequently, how each species’ abundance varies in time and in space. Predator and prey attempt to increase or decrease overlap respectively
for moose was available due to human disturbance. Further, I found that a higher proportion of moose were killed as the distance to oil sands mines decreased. I also found that wolves selected to move on linear features associated with oil extraction and such selection facilitated faster movement
through movement and habitat selection, processes that are sensitive to habitat heterogeneity. If predator and prey respond differently to novel habitat heterogeneity such as a zone of influence in and around human disturbance, it may provide prey with a refuge or facilitate predator hunting efficiency