Browsing 2016 Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Fisheries and wildlife sciences (MU)"
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Assessing the vulnerability of stream communities and the consistency and use of biotic indices in least-disturbed streams
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)The need in freshwater conservation is to understand the current status of aquatic biota so that we can recognize when degradation or changes occur. Because stream habitats and communities are dynamic, it is important to ... -
Breeding bird response to pine- savanna and woodland restoration in the Ozark-Ouachita interior highlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Savanna and woodland communities have experienced drastic losses in the Midwest within the past century and many early-successional bird species have also experienced sharp population declines as well. Pine- savanna and ... -
Impacts of land management practices on breeding bird and plant communities in an urban residential area
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Our research establishes a base of knowledge which contributes to our understanding of the factors that determine how residents in Columbia, Missouri make management decisions in their yard and how these decisions benefit ... -
Light reflectance patterns of decayed wood with implications for the visual ecology of woodpeckers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Birds rely on eyesight for many aspects of their behavior and ecology, and a majority of diurnal species have thus evolved complex visual systems that include sensitivity to near ultraviolet (UV; 300-399 nm) wavelengths. ... -
Rural land uses of Scott County, Missouri : landowner decisions and bird communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] With the vast majority of Missouri under private ownership, private landowners have a large spatial impact on the landscape and the resulting biotic ... -
Science and management of river-floodplain connectivity for fish movement and recruitment : a case study of a managed wetland on the lower Missouri River
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Restoration projects along the lower Missouri River (LMOR), Missouri, are undertaken to mitigate past channelization and levee construction that severed riverfloodplain connectivity and denied riverine fishes access to ... -
Streams in a changing landscape : identifying candidate reference reaches to assess the physical and biotic integrity of Missouri's wadeable streams
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)North American freshwater resources have grown increasingly imperiled as a result of human-induced landscape alterations, with many present-day stream fish and aquatic invertebrate communities representing only a fraction ...