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Examining The Relationship Between Avifauna And Green Roofs In Mississippi's Humid-Subtropical Climate, Sara Katherine Lamb Aug 2015

Examining The Relationship Between Avifauna And Green Roofs In Mississippi's Humid-Subtropical Climate, Sara Katherine Lamb

Theses and Dissertations

Human settlement displaces and fragments natural habitats. Design choices in the landscape directly affect both local diversity and extinction rates. This study seeks to understand how avifauna are responding to this new technology in Mississippi.


Vegetation Characterization For The Lake Ontario Stopover Project, Erin E. Strobl Mar 2010

Vegetation Characterization For The Lake Ontario Stopover Project, Erin E. Strobl

Theses

Avian conservation is imperative because birds provide many beneficial ecosystem services. Bird mortality is highest during the migratory period due to habitat loss from anthropogenic land cover change. On the way to and from breeding grounds, migrants make many stopovers to refuel and rest for the next leg of their journey. The abundance, distribution, and quality of the stopover habitat are important for a successful migration. The southern shore of Lake Ontario in Western New York has received attention for conservation, because it provides critical stopover habitats for migrants. Performing vegetation and bird surveys, at specific stopover locations, provides useful …


Falling Mythologies, Melissa Mance-Coniglio May 2008

Falling Mythologies, Melissa Mance-Coniglio

Theses

This thesis follows the exploration of the subject of falling within the context of mythology. This mythology is both a personal journey through the process of creating figurative paintings and one that explores archetypes from our cultural past. It links this journey through the process of painting to other artists who have explored their own subjective themes in their work and built relationships between representational work and abstraction. As these paintings have developed I have been driven by the desire to capture the transient nature of flesh and beauty. This seeking to preserve the fragments of movement and sentient being …


Specimen Catalog, Stephen Davenport Jan 1989

Specimen Catalog, Stephen Davenport

Division of Mammals - Field Notes and Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Field Notes, James S. Findley Jan 1986

Field Notes, James S. Findley

Division of Mammals - Field Notes and Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Specimen Catalog, James C. Bednarz Jan 1980

Specimen Catalog, James C. Bednarz

Division of Mammals - Field Notes and Catalogs

No abstract provided.