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- Habitat selection in the American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla): the importance of early successional habitat and the role of landscape change in population declines.
- Wood warblers -- Habitat. Wood warblers -- Effect of habitat modification on. Forest ecology -- New Hampshire. Animal populations -- Mathematical models.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Habitat selection by breeding black-throated blue warblers: different patterns at two spatial scales and the use of habitat for foraging and nesting.
- Black-throated blue warbler -- Habitat. Black-throated blue warbler -- Behavior. Black-throated blue warbler -- Food. Black-throated blue warbler -- Nests.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Fish foraging and learning in complex environments.
- Sunfishes -- Food. Sunfishes -- Effect of habitat modification on
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- Habitat partitioning by notonectids: temporal patterns and the role of spatial complexity.
- Backswimmers (Insects) -- Ecology. ; Habitat partitioning (Ecology). ; Spatial behavior in animals. ; Aquatic insects -- Ecology.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Linking Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) survival with their habitat using environmental tracers.
- Atlantic salmon -- Ecology. ; Atlantic salmon -- Habitat. ; Atlantic salmon -- Food. ; Radioactive tracers in ecology. ; Stable isotopes in ecological research. ; Strontium -- Isotopes -- Environmental aspects. ; Cesium -- Isotopes -- Environmental...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Direct and indirect effects on planktonic ciliate assemblages.
- Ciliata -- Effect of sediments on. ; Ciliata -- Effect of habitat modification on. ; Plankton -- Effect of sediments on. ; Plankton -- Effect of habitat modification on.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Light and circadian regulation in Neurospora crassa.
- Neurospora crassa -- Effect of light on. ; Neurospora crassa -- Genetics. ; Circadian rhythms. ; Genetic transcription -- Regulation. ; Cryptochrome. ; Phytochrome.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The upland forest vegetation of the Second College Grant, New Hampshire.
- Trees -- New Hampshire. ; Forest ecology -- New Hampshire.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Ecological, behavioral and morphological adaptions of a shorebird (the Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus hudsonicus) to its different migratory environments.
- Whimbrel.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Identification of novel proteins involved in Vibrio cholerae motility.
- Vibrio cholerae. Bacteria -- Motility. Flagella (Microbiology) -- Physiology. Membrane proteins.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Behavioral and neural investigations of behaviorally relevant features of auditory stimuli.
- Auditory pathways -- Physiology. ; Auditory perception -- Physiological aspects. ; Directional hearing -- Physiological aspects. ; Speech perception -- Physiological aspects. ; Prefrontal cortex -- Physiology. ; Parietal lobes -- Physiology. ;...
- Studies of the structure and function of the human and non-human primate auditory system have led to the hypothesis that it is composed of dorsal and ventral processing streams that are respectively dedicated to spatial and non-spatial processing....
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- microRNA in Porifera : evolution of a molecular mechanism in sponges / by Jeffrey Robinson
- Sponges are a historically ambiguous taxon, often considered primitively simple representatives of early Metazoa, living fossils from the era before the complex morphological features of the bilaterian phyla appeared in the Cambrian. Yet recent...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Context dependency of plant-plant and human-plant interactions in alpine and arctic tundra / by Simone S. Whitecloud
- While plant-plant interactions define community patterns in alpine tundra around the world, topography and elevation and the resulting physical changes that occur when moving down-slope play a greater role in community formation and maintenance in...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Landscape and environmental effects on organic carbon in tundra soil, west Greenland / by Julia I. Bradley-Cook
- Arctic soils in the permafrost region store substantially more carbon than is contained in the atmosphere, and are undergoing rapid change associated with anthropogenic climate change. Soil decomposition is an important component of ecosystem...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The energetic importance of terrestrial carbon in lake ecosystems.
- Microbial ecology. ; Microbial metabolism -- Regulation. ; Lakes -- Organic compound content. ; Lake ecology. ; Soils -- Leaching -- Environmental aspects. ; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry).
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Demography and movement of migratory wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) in northern Tanzania
- Gnus -- Tanzania -- Geographical distribution. ; Gnus -- Migration -- Tanzania.
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- MicroRNA-10b promotes pancreatic cancer cell invasion by suppressing TIP30 and enhancing EGF and TGF-[beta] actions / by Haoxu Ouyang
- MicroRNA-10b (miR-10b) is considered a marker of disease aggressiveness in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), in view of the fact that lower levels of miR-10b are associated with better response to neoadjuvant therapy, likelihood of surgical...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Homing, density and population dynamics in the adult newt, notopthalmus viridescens rafinesque.
- Newts.
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- Organism interactions and forest structural change in a nonnative disease complex: Beech bark disease in North America.
- American beech -- Ecology -- North America -- Mathematical models. Beech bark disease -- Mathematical models. Fungal populations -- Mathematical models. Nonindigenous pests -- Environmental aspects -- Mathematical models.
- When a nonnative insect or pathogen becomes established in a forest, outcomes for host trees can range from local or minor effects to regional extirpation. Elevated host mortality is often accompanied by compensatory recruitment by co-occurring...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The ecology and bioenergetics of the northern black-throated blue warbler.
- Wood warblers.
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- Attributing change and understanding melt ponds on a seasonal ice cover.
- Sea ice -- Arctic Ocean -- Measurement. ; Melt ponds -- Arctic Ocean -- Measurement. ; Sea ice -- Permeability.
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- Production of ethanol from lignocellulosic materials using thermophilic bacteria.
- Alcohol -- Production methods. ; Lignocellulose. ; Thermophilic bacteria.
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- Primate origins through the lens of functional and degenerate cone opsins / by Gillian L. Moritz
- A nocturnal activity pattern is central to almost all hypotheses on the adaptive origins of primates but this view has been challenged recently on the basis of variation in the cone opsin genes of nocturnal primates. The diversity among primates in...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Age-specific predation and predation risk of Chaoborus punctipennis.
- Chaoborus. Predation (Biology). Freshwater ecology.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Competition in natural Cladoceran communities : experimental manipulations and demographic analysis.
- Cladocera. ; Competition (Biology).
- Large-scale (12,000 liter) and small-scale (3.78 liter) field enclosure experiments were conducted to evaluate the intensity and nature of competition among the planktonic cladoceran grazers of a mesotrophic Vermont lake: Bosmina longirostris,...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Effects of suburbanization on plant-pollinator interactions / by Adrian L. Carper.
- Urban and suburban development is a dominant factor driving ecological processes at local and regional scales and its impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services are alarming. Pollinators, especially bees, and the ecosystem services they...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Experimental studies of fine-particle transport in turbulent flows
- Sediment transport.;""Silt."";""Turbulence.""
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Aging minds and twisting attitudes: effects of age-related decline in executive function on older adults' attitudes toward stigmatized individuals.
- Stigma (Social psychology). Aging -- Psychological aspects. Cognition -- Age factors. Older people -- Attitudes.
- Extensive research on aging has demonstrated that normal aging debilitates executive function, a system that is critical for regulating stereotypes. However, there is a paucity of research on whether age-related declines to executive function...
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- Conversion of paper sludge to ethanol and analysis of selection based strain improvement for recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing saccharolytic enzymes through continuous culture.
- Cellulase -- Biotechnology. ; Hydrolysis. ; Paper industry -- Technological innovations. ; Biomass energy -- Economic aspects. ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Genetics. ; Enzymes -- Industrial applications.
- Paper sludge is the largest solid waste stream produced by pulp and paper industry, and is also an attractive feedstock for emergent technologies based on processing of cellulosic biomass featuring enzymatic hydrolysis. This study focuses on...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- New synthetic approaches to chlorins and bacteriochlorins.
- Pyrroles -- Synthesis. Porphyrins -- Synthesis.
- Naturally occurring macrocyclic tetrapyrroles of the chlorin and bacteriochlorin classes play important roles in essential biological processes, including photosynthesis and nitrogen cycling. The chromophores also show promise in various...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Effects of foliage structure on the foraging behavior of insectivorous forest birds.
- Wood warblers -- Food. ; Wood warblers -- Behavior. Leaves. ; Forest ecology.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Habitat for Humanity
- 2002-08-14_habitat
- Dartmouth College Photographic Records
- Li Jun Xian, Class of 2004, and other Dartmouth s...
- 2002-08-14_habitat
- Dartmouth College Photographic Records
- Food limitation for forest passerines: effects of natural and experimental food reductions.
- Passeriformes. ; Birds -- Food. ; Birds -- Breeding.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Population structure, ancestry, and environmental predictors of lung and bladder cancer in New Hampshire.
- Lungs -- Cancer -- New Hampshire. Bladder -- Cancer -- New Hampshire. Cancer -- Epidemiology. Cancer -- Environmental aspects -- New Hampshire. Cancer -- Genetic aspects
- Complex diseases such as lung cancer are most commonly the result of environmental variables acting on an individual's genetic background. Those environmental variables may be found in the external environment, such as exposures to carcinogenic...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism.
- Mutualism (Biology). Insect-plant relationships. Insect population density. Bumblebees -- Ecology. Delphinium -- Ecology.
- Mutualisms may facilitate coupled population expansion or decline if changes in either partner species lead to similar changes in the other species. However, few studies have measured how both species in a mutualism respond to changes in each...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Soil biogeochemistry in temperate and arctic ecosystems : human disturbances to a critical carbon pool / by Chelsea L. Petrenko
- I investigated the effects of two contemporary disturbances to soil systems: forest clearing in the northeastern U.S. and climate-driven plant succession in the Arctic. To test the effects of clear-cutting forests on mineral soil carbon (C)...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Strategies for technological change in housing production.
- Housing. ; Building -- Cost control. ; Building -- Mathematical models.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Distribution of sessile rotifers in a bog pond : with particular emphasis on substrate selection by Ptycura Beauchampi larvae
- Rotifera. Ptychura Beauchampi.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Chemical processing of atmospheric inputs by subalpine balsam fir.
- Balsam fir. ; Forest ecology. ; Air -- Pollution -- Environmental aspects. ; Plants -- Effect of air pollution on.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Evolutionary implications of phenotypic and genetic variation in cladoceran populations
- Daphnia
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The effects of endocrine disruptors on the development of Xenopus embryos.
- Xenopus laevis -- Embryology. Xenopus laevis -- Endocrinology. ; Estrogen -- Physiological effect. ; Estrogen -- Toxicology. ; Nonylphenol -- Physiological effect. Endocrine toxicology.
- Many environmental toxicants found in pesticides, herbicides, and industrial solvents are believed to have deleterious effects on development by disrupting hormone-sensitive processes. Xenopus embryos were exposed to commonly encountered endocrine...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Linking density-dependent survival and growth of juvenile Atlantic salmon to their predators and prey.
- Atlantic salmon -- Growth. Atlantic salmon -- Effect of predation on -- Connecticut River Watershed. Atlantic salmon -- Mortality -- Connecticut River Watershed. Fish populations. Atlantic salmon -- Toxicology -- Connecticut River Watershed. Cottus...
- Juvenile, stream-dwelling salmon are a model system for studies of density dependence. However, while salmon exhibit diverse mechanisms and patterns of density dependence, the factors that drive variation in density dependence are not clear. I used...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions.
- Meadow ecology -- Colorado. Angiosperms -- Nutrition. Angiosperms -- Pollination. Plants -- Effect of nitrogen on. Insect pollinators -- Ecology -- Colorado. Mountain plants -- Ecology -- Colorado. Bees -- Ecology -- Colorado. Bees -- Nutrition --...
- Nutrients play fundamental roles in biological systems, affecting plant growth and quality, community structure, and species interactions. Although the effects of nutrients on primary and secondary production have been well documented, their...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The ecology of Vibrio cholerae: intra- and interspecific interactions.
- Vibrio cholerae -- Ecology. Vibrio cholerae -- Growth. Cyanobacteria -- Ecology.
- In this dissertation, I present an examination of the role of two biotic interactions in the population dynamics of Vibrio cholerae. Traits with a genetic basis such as size, physiological processes, stress tolerance, and even behavior, are key...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Temperature effects on consumer-resource species interactions : integrating thermal physiology and community ecology / by Lauren Elizabeth Culler.
- Climate change is altering the thermal environment for populations at all trophic levels and thus the response of any given population to warming can only be understood in the context of species interactions. Consumer-resource species interactions...
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The ecology of the freshwater sponge.
- Sponges.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- Game-theoretic approaches for adversarial multi-armed bandit scenarios.
- We pose several adversarial variants of the multi-armed bandit scenario and propose new approaches for their play and analysis. Our casino patron seeks to discover information about an unknown system as a means to long-term payoff -- exploration...
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- An investigation of the physiology of a filamentous 'iron bacterium' : iron deposition in the genus Sphaerotilus.
- Bacteria -- Morphology; Iron bacteria; Sphaerotili.
- Dartmouth Dissertations
- The evolution of mate recognition in Oecanthus tree crickets / by Laurel Symes.
- Many organisms recognize and respond to categories: predator, prey, rival, or juvenile. Organisms recognize these ecologically-important categories by assessing diverse sensory stimuli. A primary focus of my research has been understanding how...
- Dartmouth Dissertations

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