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Community Structure And Ecological Specialization In Plant-Ant Interactions, Paola Barriga
Community Structure And Ecological Specialization In Plant-Ant Interactions, Paola Barriga
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Positive associations among species have contributed to the maintenance of biodiversity. These interactions are typically studied in pairwise fashion where two interacting organisms are the focus. This dissertation uses network theory to analyze positive plant-ant associations in three Neotropical forests. Obligate plant-ant mutualisms were used, where plants host the ants in domatia and provide food bodies while the ants protect the plants and can feed them. A network approach was used to depict all obligate plant-ant interactions within a community. The main questions asked at the community level were: 1) Do network structure and levels of specialization change geographically and, …
Life History Variation Of Common Terns In The Gulf Of Maine, Jeffery Bryant Kimmons
Life History Variation Of Common Terns In The Gulf Of Maine, Jeffery Bryant Kimmons
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Life history is the inheritable rules that determine energy and time allocation towards different competing functions in the energy budget of an organism. Reproductive effort varies as organisms make reproductive decisions based on available energy. Factors influencing life histories are those that change energy and time budgets such as diet, competition, and environmental conditions.
Common tern (Sterna hirundo) life history phenotypes vary between islands in the Gulf of Maine. Common terns on offshore islands (>10km from mainland) and nearshore islands (5 to 10km from mainland) lay smaller clutches, hatching chicks with slower growth rates than common terns …