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Evaluation Of Alternate Microbial Indicators Of Fecal Pollution In A Non-Point Source Impacted Shellfish Growing Area, Howard I. Kator, Martha Rhodes

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The Modeling And Measurement Of Respiratory Carbon Use And Net Carbon Gain Of Two Agropyron Bunchgrasses, Halldor Thorgeirsson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The rate of photosynthetic carbon fixation and of root and shoot respiratory carbon use was measured in the laboratory and in the field (shoots only) for Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult. and Agropyron spicatum (Pursh) Scribn. and Smith. The rate of respiratory carbon use of the root system declined within hours of the shading or defoliation of the shoot system, resulting in as much as 60% reduction in specific rate of root respiration. The mean whole-plant growth efficiency (the ratio of whole-plant net carbon gain to gross photosynthetic carbon fixation) in full irradiance in the laboratory was 0.53 and …

A New Approach To Forest Site Quality Modeling, David L. Verbyla

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Multiple regression and discriminant analysis procedures are commonly used to develop forest site quality models. 'When they contain many independent variables relative to sample size, these models may be subject to predicton bias. Fit statistics such as R² in regression and classification tables in discriminant analysis show the apparent model accuracy but this may be a biased estimate of the model's actual accuracy. Sample splitting methods such as cross-validation and the bootstrap can be used to get an unbiased actual accuracy estimate.

A discriminant procedure called classification tree analysis uses cross-validation to build the classifier with the greatest estimated …