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Understanding The Impacts Of Urbanization On The Avian Community Of Portland Oregon And Evaluation Of The Portland Oregon Backyard Habitat Certification Program, Andrew Daniel Gibbs
Understanding The Impacts Of Urbanization On The Avian Community Of Portland Oregon And Evaluation Of The Portland Oregon Backyard Habitat Certification Program, Andrew Daniel Gibbs
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Over fifty percent of humans live in cities. The environmental cost of this is massive, as is the potential for utilizing privately held yards as an integral part of conservation in urban areas. The Backyard Habitat Certification Program (BHCP) in Portland, Oregon, was established to reduce invasive plants, support wildlife, and promote conservation. The program involves > 3000 yards certified at three tiers. While onsite inspections are required to verify compliance, there has never been an assessment of the value of these yards to wildlife. Chapter 1 examined the relationships between the urban landscape and bird distributions outside of yards. Chapter …
Examination Of Human Impacts On The Biodiversity And Ecology Of Lichen And Moss Communities, Hannah Marie Prather
Examination Of Human Impacts On The Biodiversity And Ecology Of Lichen And Moss Communities, Hannah Marie Prather
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Globally, more than half of the world's population is living in urban areas and it is well accepted that human activities (e.g. climate warming, pollution, landscape homogenization) pose a multitude of threats to ecosystems. Largely, human-related impacts on biodiversity will hold consequences for larger ecological processes and research looking into human impacts on sensitive epiphytic lichen and moss communities is an emerging area of research. While seemingly small, lichen and moss communities exist on nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth and contribute to whole-system processes (e.g. hydrology, mineral cycling, food web energetics) worldwide. To further examine human impacts on epiphytic …