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This work examined the transformation of the concept of biodiversity into natural resource policies of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank through 1988. The study identified ...
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2. [Article] Soil Property Effects on Willamette Daisy (Erigeron decumbens) within William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge
Plant species diversity plays an important role in maintaining ecosystem function and the services that ecosystems provide. Diversity is threatened by habitat loss, invasive species, and global climate ...Citation -
3. [Article] Human Visitation in the Rocky Intertidal and its Effects on Abundance of Algal and Invertebrate Species
The rocky intertidal is a diverse ecosystem with a variety of species and ecological interactions. Many biotic and abiotic interactions act together to restrict the abundance and distribution of species. ...Citation -
4. [Article] The development of a distribution- and growth-prediction model for the environmental grid
Further development of an environmental grid for interpreting plant distribution and growth took place this last year as an attempt to solve problems associated with spatial diversity in ecosystems. Special ...Citation -
Access to this item has been restricted by repository administrators at the request of the publisher, Elsevier, until July 29, 2017.
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6. [Article] Stand Structure of Old Growth Dry Mixed Conifer Forests in the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests.
Old-growth dry-mixed conifer forests are valued as habitats for late seral forest species, for the ecosystem services and landscape diversity they provide, and for their aesthetic appeal. The structure ...Citation -
This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the author(s) and published by Elsevier. The published article can be found at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/deep-sea-rese...
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8. [Article] Assessment of the vulnerability of Oregon and Washington's natural areas to climate change
There are currently more than 580 natural areas in Oregon and Washington managed by 20 federal, state, local, and private agencies and organizations. The natural areas network is unparalleled in its representation ...Citation -
Metagenomics has revealed that the marine microbial biosphere is immensely more diverse than originally considered, and is an almost untapped reservoir for the potential discovery of microbial natural ...
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To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this paper were federal employees when contributing to this work. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the American ...
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11. [Article] Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape
Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors ...Citation -
In 1978, a ten year project was begun to examine the synecological effects of livestock grazing riparian ecosystems. A multitude of biotic arid physical factors, many which were unique to riparian ecosystems, ...
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This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the author(s) and published by the Frontiers Research Foundation. The published article can be found at: http://www.frontiersi...
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This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the author(s) and published by SpringerOpen. The published article can be found at: http://link.springer.com/journal/40693
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16. [Article] The Schultz Fire : an interdisciplinary perspective on its history, management, and ecological effects
This thesis examines the Schultz Fire as a case study to explain the complex history of fire suppression management in America’s forests, and to gain further understanding of how management practices have ...Citation -
The earth is undergoing a “biodiversity crisis” characterized by loss of populations, species, genetic diversity, and ecosystem services. Part of this crisis consists of population declines, extinctions, ...
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18. [Article] An edaphic study of the Mt. Pisgah Arboretum water garden, Coast Fork of the Willamette River
Wetlands are widely identified as providing important and fundamental processes valuable for maintaining ecosystem health and diversity. Located in the southern Willamette Valley, the Mt. Pisgah Arboretum ...Citation -
19. [Article] What is killing the corals? Viral and bacterial interrogations using metagenomics and microscopy
Corals have multiple roles in maintaining ocean health and are some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. The coral animal is host to a multitude of taxa, including symbiotic dinoflagellate algae, fungi, ...Citation -
Adaptive ecosystem management is a new paradigm for managing federal forests which requires regular monitoring of ecosystem function and diversity to measure the effects of management. Managers need new ...
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Salvage-logging and artificial seeding of grass following wildfire are common practices in coniferous forests of the western United States, yet few studies have quantified the ecological effects of these ...
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22. [Article] Predictability and Constraints on the Structure of Ecological Communities in the Context of Climate Change
Ecologists must increasingly balance the need for accurate predictions about how ecosystems will be affected by climate change, against the fact that making such predictions at the ecosystem-level may ...Citation -
23. [Article] The ecological consequences of the reduction of species diversity : experimental approaches
The influence of loss of diversity on community dynamics and ecosystem functioning has recently received considerable attention. Although study of biodiversity has a long history within ecology, empirical ...Citation -
24. [Article] Fishermen, Markets, and Population Diversity
Fishing impacts biodiversity on multiple levels, potentially resulting in unintended feedbacks to economic performance of the fishery over time. For example, targeting observable traits within a population ...Citation -
25. [Article] Native bee diversity and floral resource availability in two Willamette Valley Oregon ecosystems
The importance of pollinators in native and managed landscapes is well known, and recent interest is directed towards investigating the role of native bees as providers of pollination ecosystem services. ...Citation -
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Elsevier and can be found at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/marine-policy/.
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When we talk about indigenous cultural practices we are in fact talking about responsibilities that have evolved into unwritten tribal laws over millennia. These responsibilities and laws are directly ...
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This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by Ecological Society of America and can be found at: http://esa.org/.
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This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the author(s) and published by Ecological Society of America. The published article can be found at: http://esajournals.online...
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31. [Article] A community-based approach for evaluating tradeoffs across marine ecosystem services in Oregon
As competing uses of our coastlines increase, natural resource agencies are employing marine spatial planning (MSP) to designate areas for different uses or activities in order to reduce conflicts while ...Citation -
32. [Article] Investing upstream : a social-ecological systems perspective on water utility investments in ecosystem services
The concept of ecosystem services broadens perspectives on nature to include not only intrinsic value but also the utilitarian value it provides to society. Viewing nature through this lens informs our ...Citation -
To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this paper were federal employees when contributing to this work. This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the Nature ...
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34. [Article] A choice experiment analysis of public preferences for conservation of biological diversity in the Oregon Coast Range
Ecosystem management has become an increasingly mainstream paradigm for natural resource management. Nowhere is this more evident than on the public and private forestland of the Pacific Northwest. While ...Citation -
35. [Article] Ecosystem services markets for family foresters
This is a report produced as part of a class led by John Bliss, Sally Duncan and James Johnston under a grant from the American Forest Foundation.Citation -
This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by Springer and can be found at: http://link.springer.com/journal/10021. To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this ...
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37. [Article] Hydrology shapes taxonomic and functional structure of desert stream invertebrate communities
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The article is copyrighted by The Society for Freshwater Science and published by The University of Chicago Press. It can ...Citation -
38. [Article] Comparative Composition, Diversity and Trophic Ecology of Sediment Macrofauna at Vents, Seeps and Organic Falls
This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the Public Library of Science and can be found at: http://www.plosone.org/home.action.Citation -
39. [Article] Hydroclimatic and hydrochemical controls on Plecoptera diversity and distribution in northern freshwater ecosystems
To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this paper were federal employees when contributing to this work. This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by Springer ...Citation -
40. [Article] Obligations to Protect Marine Ecosystems Under International Conventions and other Legal Instruments
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41. [Article] Laboratory studies of successional patterns in assemblages of attached estuarine diatoms
Successional patterns of attached estuarine diatoms were investigated using laboratory model ecosystems. Artificial substrates of acrylic plastic were exposed to 0, 4, and 10 hours of desiccation per day. ...Citation -
42. [Article] Environmental variability and system heterogeneity in terrestrial biogeochemical models
Ecosystems are highly heterogeneous systems subjected to important levels of environmental variability; however, it is common in terrestrial biogeochemical models to assume homogeneous properties of the ...Citation -
43. [Article] Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by Annual Reviews and can be found at: http://www.annualreviews.org/.Citation -
44. [Article] Resource waves: phenological diversity enhances foraging opportunities for mobile consumers
To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this paper were federal employees when contributing to this work. This is the publisher’s final pdf. The article is copyrighted by the Ecological Society ...Citation -
Supporting information can be located at: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0135135#sec014
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46. [Article] Determinants of moth diversity and community in a temperate mountain landscape: vegetation, topography, and seasonality
This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the author(s) and published by the Ecological Society of America. The published article can be found at: http://www.esajournal...Citation -
47. [Article] Diversity and productivity of hypogeous fungal sporocarps in a variably thinned Douglas-fir forest
Although ecosystem management techniques are designed to enhance species diversity in managed forests, no comprehensive study has been conducted to evaluate effects of such techniques on diversity and ...Citation -
48. [Article] Multi-scale relationships between aspen and birds in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem
I conducted a multi-scale evaluation of aspen – bird relationships in the northern ungulate winter range of the northern Yellowstone ecosystem during June 2001-03. Questions addressed were: (1) Does bird ...Citation -
49. [Article] Modeling ocean ecosystems: The PARADIGM program
THE ROLE OF THE OCEANS in Earth systems ecology, and the effects of climate variability on the ocean and its ecosystems, can be understood only by observing, describing, and ultimately predicting the state ...Citation -
50. [Article] Grazing, nutrients, and marine benthic algae : insights into the drivers and protection of diversity
Two of the most powerful ways in which humans have altered ecosystems are by increasing productivity and changing the densities of important consumers. The bottom-up effects of productivity and the top-down ...Citation