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Eating the Landscape You Live In: How Can Contemporary Communities Be Incorporated into the Agricultural Landscape?
(2011-11-30)
This thesis explores the idea of creating settlements that function aesthetically, as well as economically, by designing and incorporating human living conditions into productive agrarian landscapes. The project designs a ...
Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956 - 1983
(2006-08-15)
Using a contextual, inside-outsider perspective, this dissertation addresses a gap in the history of American military space technology. Shortly after the inception of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, ...
Ecoimmunological Investigations of the Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
(2011-08-04)
Despite the benefits gained from studying the immune system of non-traditional model organisms, including the discovery of key components of the human immune system, squamates remain the most poorly-understood major ...
Ecological and Genetic Investigations of the Nickel Hyperaccumulator Streptanthus polygaloides (Brassicaceae)
(2018-07-25)
Hyperaccumulators are plants that take up, transport, and sequester large amounts of an element in their tissues. By doing this, they often achieve tissue concentrations that are toxic to most organisms. In this dissertation, ...
Ecological Assessments of the Lesser Prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in Southeastern New Mexico
(2013-04-19)
In this study of lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), I constructed artificial leks using audio playback (aural stimuli) and decoys (visual stimuli) on active leks, as well as on abandoned lekking locations ...
Ecological Associations of Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in the Upper Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Alabama
(2008-12-15)
Relatively little is known about most of the 15 species of bats in Alabama. Especially scarce are data on species occurring in southern Alabama, including the Mobile-Tensaw Delta region. Because there are significant ...
Ecological Distribution of Shrews in the Cumberland Plateau of Alabama
(2015-12-14)
Shrews are small mammals that often occur in sympatry with other species of shrews.
This suggests some form of resource partitioning is occurring. I examined eight habitats in Jackson County, Alabama, and detected ...
Ecological Effects of Deltamethrin Insecticide in
(2016-01-07)
In North America, plague is a relatively novel disease, causing many species to be highly to moderately susceptible to infection. The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is spread between mammals by fleas (Siphonaptera), ...
Ecological Investigation of a Population of Trillium pusillum at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
(2019-01-03)
Trillium pusillum is a state-imperiled spring wildflower. Much information concerning its biology remains largely unknown. Four aspects of T. pusillum biology were investigated during this study. First, edge effects on ...
An Ecological Perspective on Coparenting During Infancy: Exploring Associations among Social Support, Mental Health, and Parental Burnout
(2022-07-25)
The months following the birth of a new child can be a stressful time for parents. The way in which partners work together to share parenting responsibilities (i.e., coparent) is especially important for navigating the ...
An Ecologically-Sustainable Surface Water Withdrawal Framework For Cropland Irrigation-A case study in Alabama
(2009-04-22)
Agricultural production in the State of Alabama, USA, mostly depends on natural rainfall. Because of this and also because of low and uncertain precipitation levels during growing seasons, agricultural production in Alabama ...
The Ecology and Evolution of Coral-Associated Apicomplexans
(2012-12-05)
Apicomplexans are protists within the eukaryotic supergroup S.A.R. that infect a wide- range of animal species and can cause disease. Although apicomplexans are an important parasitic group, little is published regarding ...
Ecology and Management of Plum Curculio, Conotrachelus nenuphar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Alabama Peaches
(2010-08-04)
Peach production is a major industry in Alabama and many other southeastern states of the United States. Over 40,000 acres of fresh and processed peaches worth $65 million are produced annually in Alabama, Georgia, and ...
Ecology of crayfishes in the Ozark Highlands ecoregion of Oklahoma
(2023-04-27)
Crayfishes aid in the transfer of nutrients through aquatic ecosystems and are prey to
many aquatic and terrestrial species. Although their importance in ecosystem dynamics is
generally well recognized, information ...
Ecology of Raccoons in Central Alabama: A Study of Survival, Space Use, and Habitat Selection
(2007-05-15)
Population characteristics of raccoons (Procyon lotor) vary across time and geographic regions; biological information acquired in one region, at one time, may not be pertinent to other regions in other times. In Alabama, ...
Ecology Of Rudbeckia auriculata (Perdue) Kral (Asteraceae)
(2006-05-15)
Rudbeckia auriculata is a rare species endemic to three southeastern states: Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Eight censuses of flowering individuals of the species were conducted from 1992 to 2002. Although the number of ...
The Ecology of Scatterhoarding in a Flooded Ecosystem
(2018-05-16)
Food hoarding is a strategy typically used by species that experience times with little food readily available. Scatterhoarders store single food items in many locations throughout their home range before the food-scarce ...
The Ecology of West Nile Virus in Atlanta, Georgia
(2020-11-12)
West Nile virus (WNV) is a vector-borne virus that has caused hundreds of human deaths
and has cost the United States millions of dollars each year since its first emergence in 1999. To
understand the ecology of West ...
Ecomorphological analysis of cyprinds in the Mobile Bay Basin
(2015-12-10)
Ecomorphology is the study of variations in morphology and how it relates to organisms’ various life histories or ecologies. Phenetic packing/dispersal studies analyzes morphologies of community members and sees how the ...
An Econometric Analysis of Alabama Rural Land Values
(2010-05-17)
Dramatic changes in rural land values played an important role in regional, social, economic, and environmental development. The ability to understand and predict these changes is necessary for the effective design of ...