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Flies As Bioindicators Of Grazing Pressures In Mongolia, Rebecca Clement, C. Riley Nelson
Flies As Bioindicators Of Grazing Pressures In Mongolia, Rebecca Clement, C. Riley Nelson
Journal of Undergraduate Research
For over fifty thousand years, humans have affected their surrounding environments in a negative way. As the human population continues to increase, concerns about extinction and other human-influenced problems including climate change, habitat degradation, pollution and introduction of invasive species are becoming more and more difficult to ignore (Oreskes, 2004). Mongolia, with its low population density and richly diverse biogeographical landscape, has retained much of the biota that has been lost in surrounding more populous Asian countries. Much of the fauna is relatively unknown. A growing concern in Mongolia is the commercialization of grazing. Although grazing has been an integral …
Assessment Of Biodiversity On Mount Timpanogos With A Focus On Flies, Diptera: Agromyzidae, Samantha Smith, Dr. Riley Nelson
Assessment Of Biodiversity On Mount Timpanogos With A Focus On Flies, Diptera: Agromyzidae, Samantha Smith, Dr. Riley Nelson
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Mount Timpanogos, with an elevation of 3,582 meters, is home to an amazing array of insect species. Through much previous effort, many have studied the insects found in American Fork Canyon leading up to Mount Timpanogos. They have still barely scratched the surface of the abundant biodiversity on the mountain. Varied temperature regimes can cause changes in insects’ life cycle and the length of their feeding period, making the collections at different elevations of Mount Timpanogos during different years of particularly great value (Petitt et al 1991). Thus the value of collections along Mount Timpanogos is two-fold; both to study …