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- 1Basarab, John (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Bayne, Erin (Department of Biological Sciences)
- 1Erin M. Bayne (Biological Sciences)
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Spring 2020
Meat-type chickens have been bred for prioritizing energy partitioning to rapid gain and lean tissue growth, which required feed restriction to be commonly applied in the industry to optimize egg production. This thesis studied the effects of controlling energy intake on energy partitioning to...
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Ecological Causes and Consequences of Intratropical Migration in Temperate-breeding Migratory Birds
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Stutchbury, Bridget J.M., Siddiqui, Raafia, Fraser, Kevin C., Applegate, Kelly, Hvenegaard, Glen T., Mammenga, Paul, Mickle, Nannette, Pearman, Myrna, Ray, James D., Savage, Anne, Shaheen, Tim, Zuk, Marlene
New discoveries from direct tracking of temperate-breeding passerines show that intra-tropical migration (ITM) is common in a growing number of species which has important implications for understanding their evolution of migration, population dynamics, and conservation needs. Our large sample...
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Spring 2019
Human land use and climate change can contribute to cumulative effects, which are the collective impacts from environmental and anthropogenic processes over space and time. Exploring the cumulative effects of landscape and climate change together is important for identifying potential...
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2016-01-01
Marie Auger-Méthé, Mark A. Lewis, Andrew E. Derocher
Home range size estimates are often used to assess the amount of space required for animals to perform the activities essential for their survival and reproduction. However, in moving environments, traditional home range estimates may be ill suited to this task. In particular, traditional home...
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Spring 2022
Reproductive efficiency in the Western Canadian beef cow herd has not improved over the past 3 decades, despite consistent and measurable improvement in several related areas of production. The general objective of this thesis was to evaluate the relationships between early-observation traits...
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Projecting boreal bird responses to climate change considering uncertainty, refugia, vegetation lags, and post-glaciation history
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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...
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Short-Term Effects of Timber Harvest on Abundance, Territory Characteristics, and Pairing Success of Ovenbirds in Riparian Buffer Strips
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Hannon, Susan, J., Lambert, J. Daniel
In managed forests, riparian buffer strips typically are maintained to protect water quality. If properly designed, buffer strips also may act as wildlife reserves. However, forest managers have lacked the information to develop standards for buffer strips to maximize benefits for wildlife...
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The Tale of the Buraq's Tail: Reading the Buraq's Journey Through Indo-Persian Literature in a Comparative Study of Buraq Imagery
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In my thesis, I analyse two composite animal Buraq paintings from the Medieval Deccan. These two paintings, apparent copies of each other, are significantly different from other images of the Buraq in the Muslim world. Instead of placing the Buraq in a narrative scene, the Buraq takes up the...
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Toward conservation of Canada's boreal forest avifauna: Design and application of ecological models at continental extents
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Cumming, S. G., Bayne, E., Schmiegelow, F. K. A., Fontaine, T., Song, S. J., Lefevre, K.
Abstract: Human development is increasing pressure on North America's mainly intact boreal forest. We outline the need for a comprehensive synthesis of existing data and for effective scientific tools to support conservation of this biome and of the birds that depend on it. To illustrate how...