Browsing by Author "Patten, Michael"
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Abiotic and biotic drivers of grassland structure: from individual to community responses
Castillioni, Karen (2021-11-02)Climate has long been recognized as an important factor in determining the spatial-temporal distribution and abundance of species, consequently influencing global biological diversity. Model projections point to changes ... -
Ants in Flight: Reproduction, Dispersal and Predation of Ant Queens
Helms, Jackson (2016-05)Flying animals, especially insects, are a prominent feature of most terrestrial environments and make up a majority of the world’s known species. The biomechanical demands of flight shape the biology of flying insects at ... -
Conservation of Neotropical Parrots: Population Responses to Forest Cover Change and Trade Pressure and a Tool to Predict Sensitivity to Deforestation
Hille, David (2022-05-13)The avian order Psittaciformes (parrots) is one the most at-risk group of birds in the world because of the combination of deforestation and overexploitation for wildlife trade. Studies to better understand and quantify ... -
CONSERVATION, ECOLOGY, AND EVOLUTION OF MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR IN THE PAINTED BUNTING (Passerina ciris)
Contina, Andrea (2015)In animal migration studies, determining the migratory connectivity of different species is a crucial step to understand the ecology and evolution of complex behavioral traits as well as to implement effective conservation ... -
Demographic and behavioral characteristics of wintering sparrow populations in a South Carolina salt marsh
Oakley, William (2023-12-15)Throughout the world, coastal communities both human and natural face the existential threat of rapidly rising seawater levels resulting from global climate change. Since 2012, my collaborators and I have been monitoring ... -
Evaluating the use of environmental DNA for surveying semi-aquatic avian fauna
Anaya, Kayleigh (2018)The identification and quantification of DNA shed into aqueous environments can be used to estimate site occupancy and population density of various taxa. It is often easier to sample for environmental DNA (eDNA) than use ... -
The Evolution of Mate Choice in the Genus Limia
Spikes, Montrai (2021-05-14)Mate choice is a discipline of sexual selection research describing the process of an individual biasing resource use to reproduce with preferred mates. Classical theory describes mate choice as only occurring in females ... -
The Evolution Of Reproductive Isolation In A Temporally Complex Passerine Hybrid Zone
Curry, Claire Michelle (2014)Understanding the relative importance of reproductive isolating barriers between populations allows us learn what processes are most prevalent in causing speciation. Hybrid zones, where distinguishable populations interbreed, ... -
EXPERIENCE, NEIGHBHORHOODS, AND HABITATS: BREEDING DISPERSAL OF MALE BLACK-CAPPED VIREOS (VIREO ATRICAPILLA)
Cimprich, Paula (2019-08-01)1. Mechanisms driving breeding dispersal are complex and potentially interactive. These mechanisms are of general interest because dispersal strongly links individual fitness to population dynamics. We examine the ... -
Experimenting with multistressors: intraspecific variation in behaviors, tolerances, and distributions
Adams, Amy (2020-12-18)Understanding organisms’ behavioral, spatial, and physiological responses to stress is critically important for successfully predicting and managing population declines and extinctions. Currently, climate change is ... -
FROM COOPERATION TO COMPETITION: HOW MICROBES AND INVERTEBRATES INTERACT IN A TROPICAL FOREST
Lucas, Jane (2018-05)Microbes and invertebrates are “the little things that run the world” (Wilson 1987, Moreau 2017), but the intricacies of how these organisms impact our environment remains underexplored. Here I investigate how microbes and ... -
From individuals to environment: the relative roles of morphology, flight, density, synchrony, habitat structure, and weather on extra-pair paternity
Roeder, Diane (2016-08)Reproductive success is driven in large part by the mating system of a species, which ultimately determines patterns of gene transmission across generations. In species with socially monogamous mating systems, an important ... -
THE IMPACT OF LONG-TERM ELEVATED ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ON BELOWGROUND MICROBIAL COMMUNITY AT CONTRAST NITROGEN CONDITIONS
Liu, Feifei (2017-12)Global terrestrial ecosystems are subjected to various climate change factors, including the concurrent elevated CO2 (eCO2) and nitrogen deposition (eN). Despite the increasing appreciation that eCO2 and eN can interactively ... -
Impacts of the social environment on male sexual behavior and attention allocation
Burridge, Shelby (2016-12)Social communication occurs within a network and interactions between individuals rarely occur in private. The presence of observing individuals have been shown to affect the behavior of a signaling individual, however ... -
Interaction of climate and space in variation of the functional niche of freshwater mussels (Family: Unionidae)
DuBose, Traci Glyn Popejoy (2020-05-08)Animals are an integral part of ecosystems: they consume and process materials, thus connecting the cycling of nutrients and matter through ecosystems. Freshwater mussels (order Unionoida) are a diverse group of bivalve ... -
On the use of Odonata as ecological indicators
Hjalmarson, Emily (2018)The insect order Odonata, the dragonflies and damselflies, is unique to use as an ecological indicator for water quality because of its close relationship with aquatic ecosystems and relative ease of observation and ... -
Patterns in habitat selection between breeding and wintering grounds of Neotropical migrant passerines
Dantzler-Kyer, Maryanne (2017-05)Migratory animals must select suitable habitat in different locations to take advantage of abundances of resources and escape harsh climates during seasonal changes. Niche tracking occurs when migratory animals fill the ... -
THE ROLE OF BIOGEOCHEMISTRY AND CLIMATE IN A NEOTROPICAL ANT COMMUNITY
Bujan, Jelena (2017)Human activities are rapidly changing nutrient availability and climate across the globe, and this trend is predicted to continue. The effect of biogeochemistry on consumer communities is underexplored in the world’s most ... -
SEASONAL AND CLIMATIC MODEL OF LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN DEMOGRAPHICS
De Angelis, Nathaniel (2017-05)Abstract The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) has suffered substantial losses in both population number and occupied range over the last century. Although the species has been the focus of range-wide ... -
Single-probe Mass Spectrometry as a Bioanalytical Tool for Quantitative Single Cell Analysis: From Cell Lines to Patients
Standke, Shawna (2019-05-10)Cellular processes are traditionally characterized using bulk analysis. However, cell population averaging techniques are unable to accurately characterize these processes as each cell is extremely heterogeneous and can ...