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Cahill, J. F., Mitchell, M. G. E., Hik, D. S.
We investigated whether plant interaction intensity in a subarctic-alpine meadow is important for determining community structure and species abundance. Using two common species as phytometers, we measured interaction intensity using a neighbor removal approach. Eight biotic and abiotic variables...
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Plant litter: direct and indirect effects of simulated climate change and clipping on its decomposition, and its effects on plant-plant interactions
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Terrestrial ecosystems are characterized by an intricate relationship between plants and soils that influence ecosystem and community level processes and properties. At the ecosystem level, plants (producers) provide organic carbon to the decomposer subsystem and obligate root-associated...
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Spring 2015
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) enter a period of intensified feeding in the spring, which allows for the accumulation of energy stores critical to surviving the open water season. Study on polar bear predation has been limited by sample size and spatial extent, and hypotheses on the demographic...
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Relationships among diverse root foraging behaviours: understanding plant behavioural types
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Behaviours capture the functional response of plants to environmental factors. I explore behaviours for twenty co-occurring grassland species in response to common belowground environmental factors (competition, mycorrhizae, heterogeneous and high nutrients) and their relationship to plant...
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Relationships among diverse root foraging behaviours: understanding plant behavioural types - supporting data
Relationships among diverse root foraging behaviours: understanding plant behavioural types - supporting data
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These are the supporting data for the University of Alberta MSc thesis: Belter, Pamela R. 2014. Relationships among diverse root foraging behaviours: understanding plant behavioural types.
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Response competition operates on movement direction and is effector-independent: Evidence from three free choice reaching tasks
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People and other organisms live in complex environments where the number of potential actions is almost always greater than the number of actions that can be performed at a time. Thus, organisms must make decisions about which actions to perform and which to not perform. Theories about how action...
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Roots in reconstructed soils - how land reclamation practices affect the development of tree root systems
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Tree root systems are incredibly complex organs that fulfill several vital functions, the main ones being anchorage and uptake of water and mineral elements. They perform these functions in a highly complex and challenging soil environment with heterogeneously distributed soil resources, physical...
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Spatial and Temporal Variations in Tree Growth, Mortality, and Biodiversity in Alberta Forests
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Understanding the spatial and temporal variation of tree demographic rates and biodiversity is essential for predicting the dynamics of forest ecosystems and their responses to changing environments. This thesis contributes to that understanding through modeling the long-term change in tree...