Changing Chapultepec: Construction, Consumption, and Cultural Politics in a Mexico City Forest, 1934-1944 asks to whom does the forest belong? A study about how Chapultepec Forest in Mexico City became an emblematic space filled with didactic institutions, it argues that actors …
I studied factors affecting seed dispersal of nut-bearing deciduous trees, and examined how dispersal processes might be altered by forest fragmentation in the Midwestern U.S. The seeds of oaks (Quercus), hickories (Carya), and walnuts (Juglans) are dispersed by rodents and blue…
The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), Adelges tsugae Annand (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), is an invasive insect that is causing mortality of eastern hemlock trees, Tsuga canadensis , and Carolina hemlock trees, Tsuga caroliniana, across the eastern United States. To protect these ecologic…
This dissertation examines people’s relationships to place and community. The papers are linked by three broad themes: 1) place meanings, 2) community connections to resource places, and 3) innovative qualitative research methodologies.
Hurricanes are a relatively common occurrence along the gulf coast of Texas. This research analyzed the effect hurricanes have on the growth and structure of forests in southeastern Texas. Increment cores were taken from numerous species within the Neches Bottom Unit of the Big …
"The HyP3 Project was initiated in 1997 to provide an integrated research approach to the study of pattern, process, and productivity in the hypermaritime forests of north coastal British Columbia. The project has four main goals: 1) Document the ecology of the blanket bog-uplan…
Descriptions, maps, illustrations and tables of British Columbia's biogeoclimatic zones, as well as an overview of how the biogeoclimatic zone system was developed.