Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Forestry and Wildlife Science"
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Factors Influencing Post-Capture Survival and Survival of Eastern Wild Turkeys in Alabama
(2018-05-16)
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) has recently initiated research on the eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) population due to perceived declines in abundance throughout ...
Factors Influencing Tropical Forest Conservation: Evidence from the W Reserve
(2018-04-23)
We analyzed the factors that influence tropical forest resource conservation using the W Reserve in West Africa as the case study. Specifically, we first characterized the forms of pressure faced by the Reserve from the ...
Fine Tuning the Environmental Benefits Index to Achieve Cost Savings for the Conservation Reserve Program
(2018-04-24)
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest conservation program in the United States and was established in 1985. Over time, the conservation objectives of the program have broadened to include wildlife habitat, ...
Flood Control in Toulmins Spring Branch Watershed through LID Practices
(2016-08-03)
Urbanization is known to cause increases in volume of stormwater runoff and peak flow rates, which leads to changes in natural flow regime and increases the likelihood of flooding. Conventional stormwater management practices ...
Forest Inventory and Grassland Restoration Planning of Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama
(2023-04-27)
Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is the largest landholding in the Tennessee River Valley of Alabama, encompassing 36,000 acres. This region was once dominated by expansive savannas, largely dominated by oak (Quercus spp.) and pines ...
Four Essays on the Economic Development, Resource and Environmental Economic
(2019-08-16)
The economic structure and household livelihood of Mongolia have been experiencing dramatic changes driven by both the socio-economic transition and the climate change in the past decades. This dissertation investigated ...
From Trees to Lumber: Essays on Forest Management, Logging and Lumber Price
(2021-12-06)
The forestry sector includes silviculture, forest management, logging, and wood utilization. Forestry has been experiencing dramatic transformation due to technological advances, changing markets of labor, capital, and ...
Fundamental considerations and application of acoustics as a nondestructive evaluation technique of wood quality properties
(2017-11-20)
The growing global demand for wood and wood products has resulted in a tremendous investment in tree improvement programs with the aim of improving growth, form, and disease tolerance. There has been significant success ...
Generation and evaluation of forest aboveground biomass and irrigation products for the Southern United States using Earth Observation data
(2023-11-28)
The conservation of natural resources in the southern United States plays a pivotal role in addressing climate change, safeguarding its rich forest resources, maintaining ecological integrity, ensuring food sources, and ...
Genetic Diversity and Connectivity of Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in Alabama.
(2017-04-21)
One of the major concerns in conservation today is the loss of genetic diversity which is a frequent consequence of population isolation and small population sizes. Fragmentation of populations and persecution of carnivores ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Inland Waters in the Conterminous United States: a Process-based Modeling Study
(2019-12-05)
The growing awareness of global warming promotes great interest in investigating the magnitude, spatial, and temporal patterns of the major greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) emissions in the earth systems. The Greenhous ...
Habitat and population modeling as tools for the conservation of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)
(2016-08-03)
Spatial heterogeneity is an inherent part of landscapes and often has important consequences for the movements, distribution, or persistence of many wildlife species. Quantifying the composition, configuration, and ...
Hemicelluloses extraction and nanocellulose addition as a partial replacement for non-renewable adhesives in oriented strand board.
(2019-04-16)
Oriented strand board (OSB) is an engineered wood product used for building wood-based structures (e.g., walls, floors, ceilings, furniture). This composite is manufactured with small pieces of wood (strands) linked together ...
A High-Resolution Hurricane Analysis for the Southeastern United States
(2023-05-11)
This study investigated hurricane trends in the Southeastern United States. First, we developed a high-resolution gridded hurricane dataset, GRID-HURDAT2, and calculated Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index in three ...
How does the major histocompatibility complex influence reproductive success in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)?
(2019-07-23)
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) gene products can influence sexual selection through their impact on the vertebrate immune system. Individuals with greater MHC diversity are generally believed to have more effective ...
The Human Dimensions of Whooping Crane Conservation in Alabama
(2017-05-11)
Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) were historically present throughout Alabama, including coastal and interior regions of the state. However, in the early part of the 20th century, habitat alteration and unregulated human ...
Hydroclimate variability and predictability in the Southeastern United States
(2023-12-05)
The hydroclimate is the study of the hydrological cycle in the climate context, it is defined as the intersection of climatology and hydrology, especially energy and moisture exchanges between and within the two systems. ...
Identification and Distribution of Fungal Pathogens Associated with Loblolly Pine Defoliation and Tree Mortality in the Southeastern United States
(2021-12-03)
Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is a predominant timber species native to the southeastern United States. Since 2016, the species has been experiencing needle defoliation and tree mortality. Symptoms appear as yellowing to ...
Impact of Tree Inoculation by Leptographium terebrantis on Soil Microbial Communities in Commercial Loblolly Pine Stand
(2019-04-17)
A variety of abiotic and biotic stressors, including root-feeding bark beetles and pathogenic ophiostomatoid fungi, are associated with root disease of Pinus spp. Our research goal was to analyze if a tree inoculation by ...
Impacts of Drought and 40% Throughfall Reduction on Water Relations of a Longleaf Pine Stand
(2018-11-05)
Projections of increased frequency and severity of climatic- induced drought have raised concerns about the health, productivity and composition of forests in the southeastern United States. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris ...