Sediment erosion has led to major societal challenges across the globe including scour around bridge piers, infrastructure collapse, and poor ecological function in streams and along the coast. While stream erosion mitigation is well studied, coastal erodibility requires more un…
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In many rural regions of Amazonia, hunting, and game meat are important sources of food and cash income but hunters who hold substantial local ecological knowledge (LEK) are often criticized for depleting wildlife. In this thesis, I examine the potential of LEK household surveys…
This thesis describes population characteristics of Blue Catfish Ictalurus furcatus and Flathead Catfish Pylodictis olivaris within the Robert C. Byrd Pool of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. Three chapters are included as follows: 1) An introduction and literature review, 2) An ass…
The risk of habitat loss for a selection of important plant species in part of the northwestern coastal desert of Egypt was assessed and projected due to change in land use and climate. The change in land use/land cover (LULC) in the study area was assessed over 23 years using t…
Understanding the origin and elaboration of complex traits is of fundamental interest to scientists and non-scientists alike. Darwin was the first to propose a mechanistic explanation for the evolution of complex traits by suggesting that complexity can evolve by a gradual stepw…
