Browsing by Author "Luttbeg, Barney"
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Adaptive Tolerance to Zinc in Freshwater Snails (Physa acuta) Across a Contamination Gradient
Hickey, Joel (2019-07)The Tri-State-Mining district is an area of northeast Oklahoma, southwest Missouri, and southeast Kansas in which zinc and lead mines operated for over 100 years. Metal contamination from wastes left behind by these historic ... -
American Black Bear Ecology in Southeastern Oklahoma: Population Status and Capture Methodology
Pfander, Morgan (2016-05-01)Black bears (Ursus americanus) were extirpated from Oklahoma in the early 1900s but have since recolonized eastern portions of the state after successful reintroductions in Arkansas. After initial demographic studies were ... -
American Black Bear Ecology in the Oklahoma Ozarks: Home Range Estimation, Fragmentation Analysis, and Resource Selection
Lustig, Elliot J. (2018-07-01)Black bears (Ursus americanus) were extirpated from Oklahoma in the late 19th century but have since recolonized eastern portions of the state after successful translocations in Arkansas. Within the last two decades, a ... -
Beyond High Quality Habitat Corridors: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Realistic Alternatives
Knoch, Ashley Rebecca (Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)Increasing connectivity between habitat patches remaining from anthropogenic land conversion is known to mitigate the effects of habitat fragmentation. This is often implemented through corridors, linear strips of habitat ... -
Biotic and abiotic drivers of avian community dynamics
Cady, Samantha M. (2022-05)Birds are an imperiled taxon in North America and have experienced rapid and widespread decline in the most recent century. Here, we use both basic and applied approaches to better understand how bird communities function ... -
Biotic and Abiotic Factors Affecting Abundance of the American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus
Hoops, Jessica N. (2017-07-01)The American burying beetle (ABB) Nicrophorus americanus Oliver (Coleoptera: Silphidae) is one of several species of carrion beetles and is listed as endangered in the United States. Previous research suggests that ABB ... -
Connecting Environmental and Management Factors with Northern Bobwhite (Colinus Virginianus) Movement and Habitat Use
Carroll, James Matthew (Oklahoma State University, 2015-12-01)Temperature is highly variable across space and time at multiple scales, shapes landscape pattern, and dictates ecological processes. Recently, gaining knowledge on the thermal ecology of vulnerable species has been a major ... -
Dear Enemy Effect in Male Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei)
Dawkins, Elizabeth (2019-05-01)In the dear enemy effect, territory owners display more aggression towards unfamiliar strangers and less aggression towards familiar neighbors. This biological phenomenon is found in species that have territories that serve ... -
Effect of social experience on behavior, stress hormone, and reproduction in native and invasive Anolis lizards.
Magana, Jessica (2017-05)Invasive species damage ecosystems, economies, and human health. Understanding the traits that contribute to successful invasion improves our ability to identify and prevent future invasions before damage can occur. Anolis ... -
Effects and associations of the production of the biofuel crop Brassica napus on wild invertebrate pollinator communities in the South Central United States
McCoshum, Shaun Michael (2015-12)The addition of biofuel crops to the agricultural landscape is drastically changing habitats around the world with unknown environmental consequences. Agricultural conversion of land negatively affects pollinators which ... -
Evaluating Predatory Control of Dense, Slow-growing White Crappie Using Hybrid Saugeye
Carl, Dray Daniel (2018-05-01)White Crappie Pomoxis annularis is an important sportfish throughout the U.S., but this species notoriously forms "stunted" (high-density, slow-growth) populations. Fishery managers have used a predatory-control strategy ... -
Factors Affecting Reproductive Investment by a Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus Orbicollis)
Bayley, Kristen Nicole (2016-05-01)Reproductive investment is an important activity in an animal�s life. Organisms must balance multiple tradeoffs in a way that maximizes their lifetime reproductive fitness. This often leads to a conflict of interest between ... -
Genetic Determination Vs. Flexibility: How Plastic Are Behaviors and Underlying Physiological Mechanisms in a System of Locally Adapted Populations?
Doumas, Lenore Therese (Oklahoma State University, 2014-07-01)An important goal in evolutionary biology is to conceptually incorporate phenotypic plasticity into the framework of trait evolution. Here, I used a system of extremophile fish, Poecilia mexicana, locally adapted to all ... -
Genetic Mark-recapture Abundance Estimate and Dietary Preferences in a Recently Re-established American Black Bear Population
Artz, Emily Jo (2016-07-01)American black bears (Ursus americanus) are recolonizing parts of eastern Oklahoma that they have not occupied since the late 1800s. The Ozark region black bears are adapting their diets and foraging behaviors to include ... -
Grassland heterogeneity and pyric herbivory: Implications for ungulate movement, biodiversity conservation, and rangeland productivity in the Anthropocene
McMillan, Nicholas A. (2022-05)How to simultaneously manage grasslands for sustained livestock productivity and biodiversity conservation is a persistent dilemma for rangeland ecologists and conservationists. Moreover, climate change and invasive species ... -
Grassland invasion by non-native grass species: Ecological issues of multiple species at multiple trophic levels
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Individual variation in testosterone levels and parental care in eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis): Interactions with reproductive success and offspring traits
Ambardar, Medhavi (2016-07)Hormones are important regulators of behavior and fitness. We have learned much about the direct effects of hormones on behavior and reproductive success from studies that experimentally manipulate hormone levels. To ... -
Individual variation in the call characteristics of American toads (Anaxyrus americanus)
Augustino, Bailee (2022-12)Recent studies in animal behavior have demonstrated that behaviors are often repeatable. Variation in behaviors arise at many levels, including the level of a single individual, and between individuals in a population. ... -
Influence of landscape heterogeneity on local and regional biodiversity and species composition in natural and experimental metacommunities
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Informational environments and anti-predator behavior in Physa acuta
Ramos, Katerina (2020-12)Informational environments can alter how well predators and prey can find and avoid each other, and change how much certainty individuals experience. The impacts this has on ecological dynamics needs more investigation. ...