Browsing 2012 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Department "Forestry (MU)"
Now showing items 1-3 of 3
-
Large-scale forest landscape model, design, validation, and application in management of oak decline
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Forest landscape models (FLMs) have increasingly become important tools for exploring forest landscape changes by predicting forest vegetation dynamics over large spatial scales. However, two challenges confronting FLMs ... -
Measuring and modeling water and nutrient flux between a mid-Missouri stream and forested riparian zone in the central U.S.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)To improve process based understanding of stream water-groundwater interactions, high-frequency water quantity data were collected from four stilling wells and two transects of piezometers (n = 6 each) during the 2011 water ... -
Urban sprawl in the state of Missouri : current trends, driving forces, and predicted growth on Missouri's natural landscape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Missouri reflects a full range of sprawl characteristics that include large metropolitan centers, which led growth in 1980s, and smaller metropolitan and rural areas, which led growth in 1990s. In order to study the ...