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(2019-03)This study addresses the effects of domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica) grazing on understory vegetation of an oak woodland adjacent to a hazelnut orchard. Oregon white oaks (Quercus garryana) are associated with filbertworms ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)Over the last two decades, frustration with government inaction on climate change has catalyzed a surge of litigation to prompt policy action. Although climate change litigation is constrained by justiciability doctrines ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-06)Squirrels have an incredibly diverse lineage with a global distribution and have dispersed over millions of years from a common ancestor approximately 40-50 MYA. The assumption since the 1980’s has been that squirrels ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021)This thesis explores power and powerlessness with regard to food insecurity, food deserts and food swamps, climate change and methane production, and advertising as they relate to beef and the beef industry. This thesis ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-06)This honors thesis examines the environmental, sociopolitical, and socioeconomical aspects of Cancer Alley, Louisiana, United States of America. Cancer Alley is a name dubbed to an eighty-five-mile-long corridor in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021)We are at a moment in time where environmental crises continue to worsen and impact every aspect of life around the globe. The way people learn about, understand, and respond to the environment is of critical importance. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-04)Environmental justice research has shown that different marginalized populations in the United States have been disproportionately impacted by environmental harms. Most of the research and policy has focused on ethnic ...
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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, 2024-06)Climate change is predicted to alter interannual precipitation patterns and increase drought severity and frequency. Although plant ecologists are actively investigating the impacts of climate change, we still lack robust ...
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(2018-06-04)Variation in plant community composition has been shown to alter the concentrations of soil organic carbon (SOC) within the soil. Climate change, and anthropogenic disturbances have altered dominant plant communities across ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-05)All countries face numerous environmental problems, from air and ocean pollution to the existential threat posed by climate change and many more. In response, many nations have negotiated and joined international environmental ...
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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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(University of Oregon, 2014-12)The goal of this project is to cross-walk the forty-six lessons with a Language Arts focus from the Project Learning Tree (PLT) Environmental Education Activity Guide to the concepts and practices expressed in the five ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-09)Recent studies about Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have shed a new light upon the movement of the island's giant statues ( moai) and platforms ( ahu) showing that they were purposeful projects created by small communities ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-06)Food waste in the United States is a large-scale issue that impacts international and national food systems. The core consequences of food waste are environmental damages, economic losses and exacerbating social costs ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)Prior to Euro-American settlement in the Willamette Valley, the Kalapuya indigenous group conducted prairie burning to incite annual subsistence rounds of native prairie resources. However, the frequency of fire declined ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)Since global warming came to the international stage in the 1980s, mass media, scientists, politicians, and other public figures have avoided addressing the problem for a multitude of reasons—the first being the social and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12)The purpose of this study is to understand how hazelnut orchards in the Willamette Valley, Oregon retain soil moisture throughout the spring and summer months, and how orchard floor treatments can be used to improve soil ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)The practice of seed saving has the potential to play a critical role in enhancing the adaptive capacity of the U.S. agricultural system through the protection the crop genetic resource base. It is therefore of value ...
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