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1. The Role of Land Cover Change in Long-Term Climate Change

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Open Access
Author:
Lamptey, Benjamin Lantei
Title:
The Role of Land Cover Change in Long-Term Climate Change
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
urbanization
global and regional climate modeling
climate change
vegetation
land-use/land-cover change
File:
Download Lamptey-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Eric James Barron, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member
Toby Nahum Carlson, Committee Member
Paul Plassmann, Committee Member

2. THE RESPONSE OF ARCTIC VEGETATION TO CLIMATE WARMING IN AN UNGULATE GRAZING SYSTEM

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Open Access
Author:
Pedersen, Christian
Title:
THE RESPONSE OF ARCTIC VEGETATION TO CLIMATE WARMING IN AN UNGULATE GRAZING SYSTEM
Graduate Program:
Biology
Keywords:
climate change
herbivory
phenology
ungulates
arctic
vegetation
grazing
reproduction
flowering
File:
Download Chr_Pedersen_PhD_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Christopher Uhl, Committee Member

3. Plants, Precipitation, and People in Dhofar, Oman: Dryland Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing World

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Open Access
Author:
Horisk, Kaitlyn
Title:
Plants, Precipitation, and People in Dhofar, Oman: Dryland Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing World
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Paleoecology
climate change
vegetation
Arabia
pastoralism
taxonomic turnover
isotopes
pollen
Agent-based model
File:
Download Horisk_DoctoralDissertation.2024.pdf
Committee Members:
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Erin DiMaggio, Major Field Member
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Ivory, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joy McCorriston, Special Member
Kate Freeman, Major Field Member

4. Origins of Icehouse Vegetation in Southern South America: Climate Change and Turnover in Eocene and Oligocene Patagonian Fossil Floras

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Author:
Harris, Gabriella
Title:
Origins of Icehouse Vegetation in Southern South America: Climate Change and Turnover in Eocene and Oligocene Patagonian Fossil Floras
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Argentina
Patagonia
Río Pichileufú
Laguna del Hunco
fossil leaves
leaf architecture
Araucaria
Austrocedrus
Oligocene
Eocene
climate change
Araucariaceae
Cupressaceae
conifers
EECO
total evidence phylogeny
rainforest
Gondwana
South America
Adobe Bridge
diversity
turnover
mosaic evolution
paleoecology
morphology
vegetation
paleobotany
seasonality
Splendid Isolation
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Committee Members:
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Mark Patzkowsky, Major Field Member
Peter Wilf, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sarah Ivory, Major Field Member
Jesse Lasky, Outside Unit & Field Member

5. Impacts of Sodium Chloride on Nutrient, Heavy Metals, and Total Suspended Solids Removal by Bioretention Mesocosms with Varied Vegetation and Saturation

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Author:
Brown, Alexander
Title:
Impacts of Sodium Chloride on Nutrient, Heavy Metals, and Total Suspended Solids Removal by Bioretention Mesocosms with Varied Vegetation and Saturation
Graduate Program:
Environmental Engineering
Keywords:
bioretention
deicing salt
stormwater
green infrastructure
bioinfiltration
heavy metals
nutrients
nitrogen
phosphorus
copper
zinc
stormwater control measure
best management practice
sediment
internal water storage
vegetation
removal efficiency
water quality
loading
urban
runoff
nonpoint pollution
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Committee Members:
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Lauren Mc Phillips, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Margaret Crowley Hoffman, Committee Member