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Analytical developments in the use of resemblance measures in community ecology and applications to boreal forest Carabidae
DownloadFall 2012
Understanding the factors influencing the distribution of species is one of the main goals of ecology. This thesis presents three contributions to better and more efficiently understand the factors defining the composition of ecological communities. First, I studied the impact of anthropogenic...
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Overstory and understory dynamics of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) ecosystems of northwestern British Columbia
DownloadFall 2010
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is declining across its range due to disturbances such as mountain pine beetle and white pine blister rust. In this thesis, I assess the response and vulnerability of whitebark pine ecosystems to multiple stressors and disturbances at the northern edge of...