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Synaptic depression and its relation to behavioral habituation within anterior piriform cortex.
(2004)
The onset, time course, and extent of LOT synaptic depression during both in vitro electrical and in vivo odorant stimulation methods were similar. Similar to the odor specificity of cortical odor adaptation in vivo, there ...
An integrative approach to understanding mussel community structure: Linking biodiversity, environmental context and physiology.
(2007)
The focus of my third chapter is an integration of the physiology information collected in chapter two to address how species dominance of two distinct thermal guilds (thermally-tolerant and thermally-sensitive) influences ...
Thermoregulation of the box turtles Terrapene carolina and Terrapene ornata.
(2001)
Terrapene ornata and T. carolina are closely related box turtles that live in different habitats: grasslands and desert edges, and forested areas, respectively. Considering these species' habitat selection, I predicted ...
Olfactory bulb coding and odor discrimination.
(2005)
Olfactory system second-order neurons, mitral-tufted cells, have odorant receptive fields (ORFs) (molecular receptive ranges in odorant space for carbon chain length in organic odorant molecules). This study quantified ...
Correlates of extra-pair paternity and the effects of ectoparasites on nestling growth, parental provisioning and reproductive success in the house sparrow.
(2000)
In addition, I looked at another aspect of the reproductive biology of the House Sparrow, the effects of ectoparasites on nestling growth, parental provisioning and reproductive success. To determine whether Pellonyssus ...
Endocrine mediation of alternative mating tactics in toads: A proximate perspective on ecological patterns and sexual selection.
(2005)
Male Great Plains toads (Bufo cognatus) and Woodhouse's toads (Bufo woodhousii) alternate between one of two mating tactics; they may either vocalize to attract mates or they may adopt a non-calling "satellite" tactic. ...
Predicting breeding-bird occurrences in Oklahoma: Relationship of species distributions to land-cover and climatic variation.
(2007)
Predictive modeling for species distributions has received considerable attention in the past decade. As more data sets and better satellite images become available it is of interest to know how well modeling techniques ...
Trophic spatial ecology of invertivorous stream fishes.
(2007)
In Chapter 1, I studied the relationship between Bigeye Shiner populations and variables of habitat patches within the stream, and the land adjacent to the stream (the riparian zone). This work was done in Brier Creek, a ...
The effects of woody patches of habitat on grassland small mammals.
(2002)
To understand better the influence of habitat modifications on grassland ecosystems, I examined the effects of woody patches on the species richness, species diversity, and total density of grassland small mammals; the ...
Factors affecting mercury contamination in fish from Caddo Lake, Texas.
(2007)
We conducted a survey of mercury contamination in largemouth bass ( Micropterus salmoides) from Caddo Lake, Texas, and found that largemouth bass collected from forested wetland habitats had higher concentrations of mercury ...