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2017-01-01
QIHUA HUANG, HAO WANG, MARK A. LEWIS
While some species spread upstream in river environments, not all invasive species are successful in spreading upriver. Here the dynamics of unidirectional water flow found in rivers can play a role in determining invasion success. We develop a continuous-discrete hybrid benthic-drift population...
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Spring 2019
Derek Parfit (1984) challenges our notion of personal identity as a criterion of survival by offering a thought experiment in which one goes through fission and survives as both postfission persons while being identical to neither of them since identity is a one-one relation. Parfit thereby...
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2015-01-01
Jon Jacobsen, Yu Jin, Mark A. Lewis
To fully understand population persistence in river ecosystems, it is neces- sary to consider the effect of the water flow, which varies tremendously with seasonal fluctuations of water runoff and snow melt. In this paper, we study integrodifference models for growth and dispersal in the presence...
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2019-01-01
Yu Jin, Qihua Huang, Julia Blackburn, Mark A. Lewis
The study of population persistence in river ecosystems is key for understanding population dynamics, invasions, and instream flow needs. In this paper, we extend theories of persistence measures for population models in one-dimensional rivers to a benthic-drift model in two-dimensional...
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Quantification and risk assessment of seed-mediated gene flow with flax as a platform crop for bioproducts
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Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is being considered as a platform crop for the development of bioproducts. Potential benefits of bioindustrial farming include the provison of bioenergy and biomaterials, and opportunities for biorefining. Prior to the commercialization of crops intended for...
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2016-01-01
Qihua Huang, Yu Jin, Mark A. Lewis
One key issue for theory in stream ecology is how much stream flow can be changed while still maintaining an intact stream ecology, instream flow needs (IFNs); the study of determining IFNs is challenging due to the complex and dynamic nature of the interaction between the stream environment and...
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Spring 2023
Coral reefs are essential to the marine ecosystem, and provide some of the most diverse habitats in the world. Coral reef fisheries contribute 6.8 billion to the economy a year globally. However, coral reefs are under significant threat because of human activities such as overfishing, ocean...