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Load Testing, Analysis, and Design of a New Box Culvert Wing Tab 

Voitenko, Pavlo (2018-08-03)
Culverts are critical hydraulic and transportation structures. They are often subjected to complex load conditions such as backfill earth pressure and traffic live load. Culverts may experience total and differential soil ...

Native Ant Biodiversity Response to A Dominant Competitor in Pine-Hardwood Forests of Alabama, USA 

Spencer, Victoria (2022-07-22)  ETD File Embargoed
This thesis explores how invasive species affect native biodiversity. Specifically, I explore how the invasive ant species, Solenopsis invicta influences the recipient native ant community in pine-hardwood forests. These ...

Olfactory Responses and Odor Coding of Culex quinquefasciatus to Human Odorants 

Ye, Zi (2015-07-21)
The southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae), transmits a number of potentially fatal diseases, including West Nile virus (WNV). From 1999 to 2013, WNV caused 39,557 cases of human infection and ...

Phylogenetic Patterns of Diversity in Herbivorous Insects 

Kaczvinsky, Chloe (2019-11-14)
Herbivorous insects comprise an extraordinary amount of the world’s biodiversity, but we do not fully understand what led to the extensive diversification within this group. Popular hypotheses focus on coevolutionary ...

The role of perennial hayfields in retaining predators 

Grider, Amelia (2023-07-27)  ETD File Embargoed
The United States has seen significant native grassland loss, with over 99% decline due to land use conversion to agriculture and industrialization, leading to declines in organisms that utilize grasslands. This is ...

Species Diversity of Hickory-feeding Phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) in the U.S. 

Hamilton, Fredericka (2019-07-23)
During the spring months, hickories throughout the Eastern U.S. become adorned with abnormal growths or galls on the leaf or stem tissue. Many of these galls are caused by phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae: Phylloxera ...

Taxonomy and phylogenetics of fish blood flukes using morphology, life history, and molecular markers 

Orélis-Ribeiro, Raphael (2016-08-05)
Fish blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) are of rapidly progressing and emerging interest to ecology and evolutionary biologists because some lineages may have coevolved with the major lineages of non-tetrapod vertebrates ...