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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This thesis addresses the growing occurrence of historic dam removals across the United States and the complex balance of interests they entail. Historic dams are often environmentally harmful, but they may also represent ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-06)Although time, weather, and the lack of public visibility present great challenges in the preservation of historic fire lookouts, other issues such as preservation policy and incoherent trends in lookout preservation ...
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(2012)
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) provide numerous services to their plant symbionts. Understanding the effects of climate change on AMF, and the resulting plant responses, is a crucial factor in predicting ecosystem ...
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(2017)Preservation of Pacific Northwest prairie ecosystems depends on our understanding of how climate change will impact levels of biodiversity within these systems. In the PNW, climate change models have predicted significant ...
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The Columbia River's region: Politics, place and environment in the Pacific Northwest, 1933--present (University of Oregon, 2007-12)This dissertation argues that Columbia River management and politics have been shaped ever since the New Deal by a conception of the Columbia River as the defining feature of the Pacific Northwest region. The study examines ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)Over the past two decades, contemporary state-level watershed management burgeoned in the Pacific Northwest. This research offers a comparative analysis of contemporary state-level watershed management frameworks in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Electricity generated from woody biomass material is generally considered renewable energy and has been considered carbon neutral. However, recent criticism from scientists argues that the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-06)Cnidarian jellyfish are ubiquitous predators of pelagic communities, but little is known about their phenology and how food availability affects their nutritional status. Starved medusae tend to decrease somatic growth ...
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(University of Oregon Libraries, 2021-06)Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of forest fires and drought across the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the United States. Due to increasingly variable temperature and precipitation patterns, ...
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(2004)
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(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012)Purpose - This paper describes the international ILL experience of three academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest and analyzes factors impacting the success of international ILL. The authors speculate on three possible ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Anthropogenic climate change significantly affects water resources. River flows in mountainous regions are driven by snowmelt and are therefore highly sensitive to increases in temperature resulting from climate change. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This dissertation addresses features of the displacement paradox in the context of electricity generation, both at the cross-national level and within one region of the United States. The displacement paradox is the empirical ...
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Independent Filmmaking in the Pacific Northwest: A Critical Analysis of the Regional Film Landscape (University of Oregon, 2011-06)Thousands of films are produced every year in the United States, and only a fraction of these is made by mainstream Hollywood film studios. Independent filmmakers working in regional locations produce the majority of these ...
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(University of Oregon School of Law, 2008)During the last thirty years, the State of Washington has been involved in extensive litigation with Indian tribes (with the United States acting as trustee for the tribes) regarding fishing rights and the quality of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-03-19)Fire watchmen have been employed by the United States Government to serve as guardians over the Nation's timber since before the establishment of the USDA Forest Service, originally the National Forest Reserves, at the ...
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(University of Oregon, 1973-03)
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(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Spring plant phenology is often used as an indicator of a community response to climate change. Remote data and low-resolution climate models are typically used to predict phenology across a landscape; however, this tends ...
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