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- 1Abele, Suzanne E
- 1Echiverri, Laureen F. I.
- 1Gordy, Michelle Ann
- 1Jody R. Reimer
- 1Karpyshin, Samantha
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2021-01-01
Mariana Nagy-Reis, Jody R. Reimer, Mark A. Lewis, William F. Jensen, Mark S. Boyce
Models of population dynamics are a central piece for harvest management, allowing managers to evaluate alternative strategies and to identify uncertainty. Here we present a density-dependent population dynamics model that can be used in conjunction with adaptive management to optimize big game...
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Examination of the diversity and assembly processes of digenean trematode communities in Alberta, and the implications of spatio-temporal community dynamics on swimmer's itch transmission in recreational lakes
DownloadSpring 2019
The preservation of biodiversity on our planet is crucial to our health. However, we cannot preserve what we do not understand. Biodiversity surveys most often forget to include some of the most diverse organisms on our planet, the parasites. Historically given a bad rap because of the diseases...
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Gastropod diversity in the boreal mixedwood forest of northern Alberta - variation among forest types and response to partial harvesting
DownloadFall 2010
Terrestrial gastropods are important decomposers, herbivores, and prey items in forest systems and constitute a poorly understood element of forest biodiversity in Canada. I studied gastropod assemblages in relation to forest cover type and in response to variable retention harvesting in the...
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Identifying understory diversity and resilience patterns with the depth-to-water index in boreal mixedwood forests
DownloadFall 2017
For the purpose of informing biodiversity conservation efforts in managed landscapes, we explored whether and how understory plant communities (abundance, diversity, composition) were related to a topographic moisture index, called depth-to-water, in the boreal mixedwood forests of northwestern...
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Impacts of clear-cut harvesting on carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages of aspen dominated forests in central Alberta
DownloadFall 2016
Disturbances, both natural and those related to human activity, reset succession in boreal ecosystems, and affect forest biodiversity. The link between forest harvesting and biodiversity is of considerable conservation concern. In this thesis, I investigate the impacts of clear-cut harvesting on...
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Natural variation and short-term impact of aspen harvesting on surface stream chemistry in the Boreal Plains
DownloadSpring 2011
This thesis describes the natural variation and influence of aspen harvesting on stream chemical concentration and flow-weighted export from catchments typical of the Western Boreal Plain, Alberta, Canada. The catchment stream discharge and stream chemical concentrations presented are taken from...
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Spring 2014
Ichnology concerns the study of interactions between organisms and both soft and hard substrates. Actualistic observation of a modern day river channel molluscan assemblage including unionid and sphaeriid bivalves and gastropods within the Saint John River, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada...
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2018-01-01
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This is an image of a snail, Helix, dissection showing the shell. This dissection is completed in Survey of invertebrates, Zoology 250. This image was created as part of the University of Alberta OER image database project in Biological Sciences. Identifer 1004I.
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2018-01-01
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This is an image of a snail, Helix, dissection showing the shell. This dissection is completed in Survey of invertebrates, Zoology 250. This image was created as part of the University of Alberta OER image database project in Biological Sciences. Identifer 1004I.
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2018-01-01
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This is an image of a snail, Helix, dissection showing Dart Sac, Oviduct, Penis, Flagellum, Crop. This dissection is completed in Survey of invertebrates, Zoology 250. This image was created as part of the University of Alberta OER image database project in Biological Sciences. Identifer 1004I.