Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Pre-European"”.
-
Assiniboine Places and Belonging
… of Assiniboine oral history, moving through Pre European Contact to the present</p>
-
Age, forest structure, and disturbance history of five potential old-growth forests in eastern Kentucky's Cumberland Plateau
… to average OG density, volume of CWD, snags and pre-European trees/ha. A change in establishment environment during the mid-1800's suggests AH might have been selectively logged. Gladie Creek (GC) and Natural Bridge (NB) exhibit disturbance during the 1890's likely the result of human land use. …
-
Studies on the conservation of waterlogged wood in New Zealand
… woods are those which were commonly used by the pre-european Maori to make artefacts, and the properties are those which affect the way these artefacts can be conserved after they have been removed from wet archaeological sites. The properties studied were (a) the species of wood used (b) the …
-
The (Un)Settling of America: Science and the Search for the First Americans
… of unstabilized power relationships in the present. Although science traditionally is believed to speak truth to governmental power, federal law dictates that American Indian traditions hold an epistemological status equal to the methods of science when determining the cultural affiliation …
-
Republic of Shade : the emergence of the American elm as a cultural and urban design element in nineteenth-century New England
… begins with a description of the tree in the pre-European era, and explains how cultural disturbance by both native Americans and colonists amplified the elm's presence in the landscape. Subsequent chapters examine the tree first as a solitary or totemic artifact in the landscape, and then as …
-
Assessing changes in connectivity and abundance through time for fisher in the southern Sierra Nevada
… I conclude that this population became isolated pre-European settlement, and that portions of the southern Sierra Nevada subsequently experienced another more recent bottleneck post-European settlement. I found that the southern Sierra Nevada fisher population is not highly genetically subdivided …
-
Assessing changes in connectivity and abundance through time for fisher in the southern Sierra Nevada
… I conclude that this population became isolated pre-European settlement, and that portions of the southern Sierra Nevada subsequently experienced another more recent bottleneck post-European settlement. I found that the southern Sierra Nevada fisher population is not highly genetically subdivided …
-
Impacts of Fire on Bats in the Central Appalachians
Fire occurrence was widespread in the central Appalachians pre-European settlement due to Native American ignition and occasional lightning strikes, and continued through European settlement. During this time, low to mixed severity burns supported a suite of ecological communities that were fire …
-
Natural and anthropogenic influences on recent sediment characteristics in the Knysna Estuary, South Africa and Yangtze River Estuary, China
… strong hydrodynamics, estuarine tidal flats are preferential sites for the accumulation of fine-grained sediment, organic matter and metals from various marine and terrestrial sources including those of natural and anthropogenic origin. The coastal zone performs many key ecosystem service …
-
Life history of fluvial and lacustrine land-locked koaro (Galaxias brevipinnis) Günther (Pisces: galaxiidae) in the Tarawera lakes
… Koaro were once abundant in these lakes, and pre-European harvest in both its juvenile (whitebait) and adult (kokopu) form, comprised an important food resource for inland Maori. Since the introduction of recreational trout species to these lakes in the late 1880s, followed by the introduction …
-
Multiproxy Analyses of Past Vegetation, Climate, and Sediment Dynamics in Hudson River Wetlands
… Estuarine Research Reserve marshes; and 2) pre and post industrialization sediment composition analysis across a North-South transect of the river. Knowledge about past ecosystem structure and ecosystem response to anthropogenic and climatic changes can provide insights on how future changes …