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Dissertations from 2024

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To Eat or Not To Eat? That is the Question: Nutrient Source Shifts in Carnivorous Plants, Emmi Kurosawa

Dissertations from 2022

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Beyond the Single Story: Integrating Human and Natural Systems to Understand Environmental Change, Michael Steven Roy

Dissertations from 2021

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Response of Socio-Ecological Systems to Climate Change in the Alpine Ecosystems of the Himalaya, Tenzing Ingty

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Of Bivalves and Bacteria: Oyster Microbiomes and Oyster-Associated Vibrio Species in the Aquaculture Environment, Casandra J. Lyons

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Population Genetics, Clonal Diversity, and Molecular Evolution of Weedy Dandelions (Taraxacum Sp.), Lisa Bhattacharyya Mazumder

Dissertations from 2020

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Using Passive Acoustic Data to Track Changes in Baleen Whale Distribution Throughout the Western North Atlantic Ocean, Genevieve E. Davis

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Identifying Drivers of and Quantifying North Atlantic Right Whale Local Abundance, Laura C. Ganley

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Cross-Ecosystem Predators Control Species Interactions, Multifunctionality and Resilience in Coastal Marshes, Marc J.S. Hensel

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Impact of Disturbance Regimes on Community and Landscape Biodiversity in Atlantic Coastal Pine Barren Ecoregion Streams, Sean T. McCanty

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Mosquito Microbiomes: Understanding the Interface Between Microbiome, Environment, and Human Pathogens, Amanda G. Tokash-Peters

Dissertations from 2018

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The Effects of Global Change Drivers on Water Quality in an Urban Northeastern Coastal Ecoregion, Nicole D. Henderson

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Evolutionary Effects of Urbanization on the Tropical Lizard Genus Anolis, Kristin M. Winchell

Dissertations from 2017

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The Effect of Abiotic Conditions on Microbial Community Structure and the Genes Responsible for Several Geochemical Processes in Salt Marsh Sediments, John H. Angell III

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Microbial Communities inside Permeable Reactive Barriers Designed to Stop Eutrophication and their Effects on Nitrous Oxide and Methylmercury Production, Kenly A. Hiller

Dissertations from 2016

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Examining the Relationship between Microorganisms and Seafood: A Focus on the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea Virginica) and American Lobster (Homarus Americanus), Sarah G. Feinman

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Evolution in the Deep Sea: Scales and Mechanisms of Population Divergence, Amanda E. Glazier

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When Carbon Becomes a Commodity: Ecological, Economic and Social Impacts of Community Forestry in the Age of Climate Change, Sujata Shrestha

Dissertations from 2015

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Examining Sociological Differences and the Influence of Prey Distribution and Environmental Variability in the Distribution of a Top Marine Predator, the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus), Stefanie K. Gazda

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Identifying Regional Shifts in Complex Species Interactions in the Gulf of Maine Mid-Intertidal, Scott L. Morello

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Critical Forces that Structure Subtidal Ecological Communities in the Gulf of Maine, and the Integration of Invasive Species into these Communities, Martine C. Wagstaff

Dissertations from 2014

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Chasing Interconnections: Mountains, Mushrooms and People, Uttam Baba Shrestha

Dissertations from 2012

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Management of Land Use Land Cover Through the Application of Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Simulation, Praveen Jha

Dissertations from 2011

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Plant Invasion: An Experimental and Mathematical Look at Plant-Soil Feedbacks, Anna Gray Aguilera

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Evolutionary Patterns in Deep-Sea Mollusks, Elizabeth Ellen Boyle

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Transboundary Conservation in Kangchenjunga Landscape in the Eastern Himalayas, Pashupati Chaudhary

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The Conservation and Habitat Ecology of Antillean Manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) in the Drowned Cayes Area of Belize, Central America, Katherine Spencer LaCommare