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Cassey, Phillip, and n/a. "Comparative Analyses of Successful Establishment Among Introduced Land Birds." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2002. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030915.094001.
Full textSafford, Roger. "Conservation of the forest-living native birds of Mauritius." Thesis, University of Kent, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386987.
Full textMorales, Susana Maria. "Effects of transplanting saguaros on native cavity nesting birds." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278725.
Full textGichohi, Nathan W. "Ecological impacts of biological invasions on native birds in Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4747.
Full textPedersen, Simen. "Effects of native and introduced cervids on small mammals and birds." Doctoral thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for biologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-15935.
Full textNumata, Mihoko, and n/a. "Cytochrome P450 activity and pollutant exposure in New Zealand native birds." University of Otago. School of Pharmacy, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070504.141101.
Full textWhittaker, Kara Ayn. "Dispersal, habitat use, and survival of native forest songbirds in an urban landscape /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5483.
Full textJackson, Sally Graves. "Relationships among Birds, Willows, and Native Ungulates in and around Northern Yellowstone National Park." DigitalCommons@USU, 1992. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/263/.
Full textSullivan, Martin John Patrick. "Predicting the distribution and impacts of non-native birds in the Iberian Peninsula." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48810/.
Full textZajc, Elizabeth. "Modelling native bird diversity in the Greater Toronto Area." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/974.
Full textA database of breeding bird data and landscape information, in a geographic information system platform, was used to investigate the comparative strength of the competing hypotheses for the Greater Toronto Area. A mathematical expression with a Poisson model format was created to represent each hypothesis. The model selection technique based on Kullback-Leibler information using the Akaike Information Criterion was deemed most appropriate for the comparison of the models. Four separate Poisson model competitions were completed using two habitat types and two response variables: species richness and total abundance. In three of the four competitions, the best model included the habitat area and the amount of urbanization in the landscape. In the forth competition, this model was considered as strong as another model which included habitat area, amount of habitat in the landscape and degree of fragmentation. The results from the model competition support the hypothesis that habitat area is important, but landscape variables must also be considered to explain avian richness and total abundance. It appears that maintaining native bird biodiversity in the Greater Toronto Area should focus on preserving and possibly increasing habitat area and decreasing adjacent urbanization. Exploration of the best model in the forest analysis with the richness response variable found that a 10% increase in habitat area cause approximately a 10% increase in species richness, and a 10% increase in urban area caused approximately a 20% decrease in species richness. Consequently, current natural heritage planning in Ontario should consider urban development as an important negative effect on native birds.
Starling, Amanda. "Behavioural plasticity of life history traits in the New Zealand avifauna." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1327.
Full textKerpez, Theodore A. "COMPETITION BETWEEN EUROPEAN STARLINGS AND NATIVE WOODPECKERS FOR NEST CAVITIES IN SAGUAROS (NORTHERN FLICKER, ARIZONA)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276704.
Full textHall, David Graham. "The ecology of black rats Rattus rattus on Mauritius and how their management affects native birds." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414127.
Full textBibles, Brent Dean 1965. "Is there competition between exotic and native cavity-nesting birds in the Sonoran Desert: An experiment." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278158.
Full textGreenfield, Cassandra Joyce. "Low Fruit Set, Pollen Limitation and the Roles of Birds and Insects in Pollination of Native New Zealand Plants." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5182.
Full textMack, Wyatt Mackenzie. "Grassland Birds Community Dynamics, Resource Selection, and Nest Survival on Mixed-Grass Prairie Grazed by Native Colonial and Domestic Herbivores." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28598.
Full textNational Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) (Grant 2011-68004-30052)
United State Department of Agriculture (USDA)
North Dakota State University (NDSU)
Wilkin-Slaney, Katherine. "Becoming - Pakeha questioning the use of native birds in representation as a means of exploring New Zealand post-settler identity in visual art : an exegesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology for the degree of Master of Art and Design, 2008 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/723.
Full textMacFarlane, Archie. "Frugivorous mutualisms in a native New Zealand forest : the good the bad and the ugly." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7636.
Full textKangas, K. (Katja). "Recreation and tourism induced changes in northern boreal environments." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2009. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514292798.
Full textPolak, Bobby J. "Influence of human recreational activities and vegetative characteristics on waterbird abundance /." View online, 2008. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/bioltad/7.
Full textKwok, Hon-kai. "Seasonality of forest birds in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18565177.
Full textMunyenyembe, F. E., and n/a. "Bird density and species richness in suburban Canberra, Australia : relationships with street vegetation, age of suburb and distance from bird source areas of native vegetation." University of Canberra. Applied Science, 1985. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061027.115542.
Full textWarnick, Shae Lewis. "Aviary of the Reverend William J. Long." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7133.
Full textMcChesney, Stephen. "The benthic invertebrate community of the intertidal mudflat at the Mai Po Marshes Nature Reserve, with special reference to resources for migrant shorebirds /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18061977.
Full textNikolakaki, Pantoula. "Landscape ecology as a framework for woodland creation in Sherwood Forest using geographic information systems." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327621.
Full textGuida, Michael. "Birds, bombs, silence : listening to nature during wartime and its aftermath in Britain, 1914-1945." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/75136/.
Full textCozza, Nicola. "Singing like wood-birds : refugee camps and exile in the construction of the Saharawi nation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d9ee198d-3275-4d6e-ae7f-34eb9a2aa101.
Full textPoole, Dana. "The Role of women in the native American civil rights movement /." View abstract, 1998. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1541.html.
Full textThesis advisor: Dr. [Heather Munro] Prescott. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History." Includes bibliographical references (leaves [97]-101).
Bingham, Christie. "Through an Open Window." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799530/.
Full textSilva, Rui Manuel Roque da. "Using data from citizen-science to monitor bird invasions." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/23690.
Full textLor, Socheata K. "Habitat use and home range of American bitterns (Botuarus lentiginosus) and monitoring of inconspicuous marsh birds in northwest Minnesota." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4705.
Full textThe entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on February 15, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
Vermeulen, Michael E. "The Influence of Neighborhood Landscape Characteristics on Native Bird Communities: Implications for Increasing Biodiversity in Our Yards." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5130.
Full textMaughan-Brown, Frances. "The Authority of the Lily and the Bird in Kierkegaard's Lily Discourses." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104816.
Full textThis dissertation presents a systematic reading of the four discourses Kierkegaard wrote on Matthew 6:24-34, which I am calling the Lily Discourses (“What We Learn from the Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air” (1847); “The Cares of the Pagans” (1848); “The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air” (1849); “Christ as Archi-Image” (1851)). Matthew instructs the reader to “consider the lilies,” and in reading this passage Kierkegaard presents the lilies as authoritative, rather than merely “figural” or “metaphoric”. The aim of this dissertation is to describe what Kierkegaard means by the authority of the lily and the bird. Since Kierkegaard engages with and in “figural” language in his pseudonymous as well as his signed texts, what he says about the lily and the bird in these four Discourses is significant for all of Kierkegaard’s work. In the first and the third Discourses Kierkegaard writes lyrically of the beauty of nature, but concludes with a brutal picture of nature’s death and decay. It is not nature, this dissertation argues, but the trace nature leaves in language, that Kierkegaard is investigating. Kierkegaard ends the first Discourse by invoking the positing power of language: he says, “Let the lily wither”. As if in response to the death at the end of the first Discourse, the second is written in praise “on the day all goes black.” If the first two Discourses describe the authority of the lily and the bird in terms of the performative – of positing and praise – the third Discourse describes this authority in terms of receptivity. The lily and the bird are obedient, Kierkegaard says there. He develops an account of obedience that is, on the one hand, required for reading the lily and the bird (for granting authority), and on the other, is the lesson taught by the lily and the bird. In the fourth Discourse Kierkegaard presents the archi-image (Forbillede, previously translated in English as “pattern” or “prototype”) and what corresponds to it: “imitation.” Only when we imitate, rather than ape mimetically or endlessly interpret, can the image (Billede) that we are responding to be the archi-image (Forbillede). The lily and the bird, the dissertation argues, have the authority of the archi-image only if we can read them in a certain way, that is, if our reading is non-mimetic imitation. For Kierkegaard imitation is an act, made by an individual person at a concrete time and place in history; it therefore commits the reader, in her full responsibility (including “social” or “political”) in the risk of reading. The dissertation has four chapters, each devoted to one of Kierkegaard’s Lily Discourses. Accordingly, Chapter One describes Kierkegaard’s account of the authority of the lily and the bird as positing, Chapter Two as praise, Chapter Three as obedience and Chapter Four as imitation
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
Kulwicki, James Howard. "The flower of birds and the dog of Pluto : observations of the North American natural world by the French Jesuit missionaries." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1265459.
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Kasoar, Timothy. "Impacts of flood-mediated disturbance on species of High Nature Value farmland." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287531.
Full textRoberge, Jean-Michel. "Umbrella species as a conservation planning tool : an assessment using resident birds in hemiboreal and boreal forests /." Uppsala : Dept. of Conservation Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2006. http://epsilon.slu.se/200684.pdf.
Full textKreiser, Kilian. "SPAN (Special Protection Area Network) : A platform to protect bird protection areas." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen Designhögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-72662.
Full textMethods Involving all important stakeholders was inevitable to make sure the result will fit their needs. In meetings with coordinators of different existing caretaker networks in Berlin I learned about the organizational aspects and got an holistic perspective on the topic. The creation of blueprint drafts and stakeholder maps in an early phase was an effective way to figure out what kind of touchpoints are needed by which users.Voluntary caretakers who monitor protection areas are the primary users, so I conducted interviews with caretakers of other networks to learn everything about their monitoring work, their needs and experiences.An in-depth analysis and synthesis of my research findings led to the ideation phase where I explored in which ways I could involve, educate, bond and assist caretakers with diverse profiles. Getting their feedback on the ideas helped me to select the most promising concepts and consolidate the final result.
Result SPAN consists of a web-application and a smartphone app performing a wide range of functions for caretakers of protection areas. With their help they can retrieve information, network with other caretakers, conduct monitoring activities and submit reports about the condition of protection areas.With SPAN, caretakers can learn about habitats, species, and other caretakers who help with monitoring them. Together they can plan their activities and exchange information with the shared schedule and annotation tools.With the smartphone app, caretakers can take notes or retrieve location based information while being out in the field. Another mobile feature are customizable print-out forms making the caretakers independent from access to power or signal-coverage.Filled-in forms are digitalized and put into the database with the help of an image recognition scanning tool.With SPAN, caretakers can also lend unmanned photogrammetry vehicles to conduct aerial monitoring in a feasible and easy-to-use way.
SPAN - A platform to monitor bird protection areas.
McChesney, Stephen. "The benthic invertebrate community of the intertidal mudflat at the Mai Po Marshes Nature Reserve, with special reference to resources formigrant shorebirds." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31214435.
Full textDibert, Jennifer Lisa. "Creating Meaning for People Living with Dementia through Nature: Exploring the Process of Bird Tales." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438280273.
Full textMacNeil, Mavis O. "The Liminal Voices." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1490635230545844.
Full textSelf, Joanna F. "Maternal depression and the nature of mother-toddler interaction : infant bids for engagement and maternal responsiveness /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9162.
Full textRiyahi, Sepand. "Local adaptation by birds to human-altered habitats: the great tit and the house sparrow as model species." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/456899.
Full textMatos, Tatiana Possati Vieira de. "Avaliação da conectividade de remanescentes de vegetação nativa em matriz agrícola, considerando os índices ecológicos para aves." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8353.
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The replacement of natural cover, by other land-uses, associate with the forest fragmentation process can result in the decrease of forest connectivity in the landscapes. The diagnosis of landscape structure, through the landscape ecology metrics, intende to direct the restoration activities and the evaluation of forest connectivity. The study aimed at the evaluation of forest connectivity in the the National Forest (FLONA) Capão Bonito and its surrounding area, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. We produced a land-use/land-cover map, through supervised digital classification, and calculated the landscape metrics (patch and class level) for study area. Selected metrics (Area, ENN and Shape) were used in the production of sustainability index (SI). The forest patches were classified in levels of priority for forest restauration, through SI. In order to identify the forest connectivity was calculated the Integral Index Connectivity (IIC) and we realized the redundancy analysis (RDA), the non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) and multiple regression. Detection was performed by the bird fixed points method and the composition of bird community was obtained through the abundance of species. The diversity index of Shannon Weaver (H ') and species richness was calculated. The land-use/land-cover map indicated that the landscape´s matrix is agriculture, with native forests occupying only 24.45%. The main focuses of forest restoration are the fragments associated with the highest values of SI, because they can guarantee the maintenance and/or the restoration of biodiversity. It was obtained that the IIC =1.000 m influenced in the variance of the birds community and, the shape metric was the main factor that influenced in the composition, richness and diversity of birds. We concluded that is possible to evaluate the connectivity axes using avufauna. The RDA permits the identification of maximum spread for birds. The shape of forest fragments is one of the main factors, influencing in bird community because it is relate with edge effect and forest landscape connectivity. The SI is a simple and effective method for express the priority patches for forest restoration.
Atualmente ocorre a substituição da cobertura natural por outros usos do solo e a fragmentação das áreas florestais, podendo diminuir a conectividade da paisagem. O diagnóstico da estrutura da paisagem, realizado pelas métricas de ecologia da paisagem, tem o objetivo de direcionar as ações de restauração e avaliação da conectividade florestal. O estudo teve por objetivo avaliar a conectividade entre os remanescentes florestais da Floresta Nacional (FLONA) de Capão Bonito e sua área de entorno, no estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Para caracterização da estrutura florestal da paisagem produziu-se o mapa de uso e cobertura do solo, por meio de uma classificação digital supervisionada. A partir deste mapa gerou-se métricas de ecologia da paisagem que, por sua vez, compuseram o índice de sustentabilidade (IS). Os remanescentes florestais foram classificados, a partir de IS, quanto a sua prioridade à restauração florestal. Para identificar a conectividade dos remanescentes florestais obteve-se o Índice Integral de Conectividade (IIC). Realizou-se a detecção das aves pelo método de pontos fixos e obteve-se a composição da comunidade por meio da abundância das espécies. Calculou-se o índice de diversidade de Shannon Weaver (H’) e a riqueza de espécies. Para a avaliação da conectividade florestal realizaram-se as análises de redundância (RDA), de escalonamento multidimensional não métrico (NMDS) e de regressão múltipla. O mapa de uso e cobertura do solo indicou que a paisagem é possui uma matriz predominantemente agrícola, com a floresta nativa representando apenas 24,45% da paisagem. Os principais focos da restauração florestal são os fragmentos com maiores valores de IS, visto que eles garantem a manutenção e/ou restauração da biodiversidade. Obteve-se que o valor de IIC 1.000m influencia na variância da comunidade de aves e a métrica shape mostrou-se como principal fator que influencia a composição, a riqueza e a diversidade das aves. Concluiu-se que é possível avaliar os eixos de conectividade usando dados da avifauna, a RDA permite identificar a máxima dispersão para as aves. A forma dos fragmentos florestais é um dos principais fatores que influenciam na comunidade de aves. O IS constituiu-se um método simples e eficaz que permite indicar os fragmentos prioritários a restauração florestal.
Gérard, Agathe. "Naïveté, nouveauté et indigénisation : vers une meilleure compréhension de l’impact des espèces animales invasives sur les faunes natives." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM4328/document.
Full textThe introduction of alien predators are causing rapid extinctions or declines in many native prey species, and these impacts are generally attributed to prey naïveté, i.e. their failure to recognize a novel enemy and respond appropriately, due to a lack of experience, particularly on island ecosystems. Here, we tested behavioral responses of different native species towards invasive species odors for several biological models of native species (squamates, mammals, birds), on island (New Caledonia) and mainland (Mali) ecosystems. We tested different types of species interactions (invasive predators vs native prey, invasive competitors/aggressors vs native competitors), for species introduced since decades, centuries, millennium, or not yet introduced but with a high risk of introduction. Naïveté is a complex phenomenon, that occurs both for mainland and island native species, that varies among species probably as a consequence of time since introduction and of the intensity of the threat posed by invasive species. Studying the consequences of the loss of naïveté improve our understanding of the factors underpinning the persistence, declines or extinctions of native species after alien species introduction and provide insights for developing accurate management strategies of invasive species impacts and limiting the current biodiversity loss
Knight, Elisabeth D. "The Bird Woman Takes Her Stand : Gene Stratton Porter's Conservancy as seen in "A Girl of the Limberlost" and "The Harvester"." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1572903002523117.
Full textBuurmans, Meghan. "Debating the ‘wild’ : What the Oostvaardersplassen can tell us about Dutch constructions of nature." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-433469.
Full textDoody, Brendan J. "Riccarton Bush and the natural and social realities of native trees in Christchurch, New Zealand." Lincoln University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/865.
Full textSeis, Katja [Verfasser], and Albert [Akademischer Betreuer] Reif. "Resilience of native vegetation and bird species to smallholder land use impacts in the Valdivian Coastal Range (Chile) = Resilienz der natürlichen Vegetation und Vogelarten gegenüber Einflüssen von kleinbäuerlicher Landnutzung in der Valdivianischen Küstenkordillere (Chile)." Freiburg : Universität, 2014. http://d-nb.info/112348533X/34.
Full textMonteiro, Lúcia Maria Oliveira. "Modelação e parametrização de índices de importância ecológica (IIE): um contributo para gestão e conservação da natureza." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/16080.
Full textBroshot, Nancy Ellen. "The Effects of Urbanization and Human Disturbance Upon Plant Community Structure and Bird Species Richness, Diversity, and Abundance in a Natural Forested Area (Forest Park) in Portland, Oregon." PDXScholar, 1999. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3962.
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