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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"monitoring protocol"”.
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Evaluation of Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration Success in Southeast Asia
… lack of project documentation, and the lack of monitoring data are the three main reasons for the failure of many mangrove ecosystem restoration projects as well as the inability to compare restoration approaches. Therefore, careful planning has to be implemented before restoration occurs. I …
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The bioecology of Dacus ciliatus (Diptera: Tephritidae) in a butternut squash production system within the Western Cape of South Africa
… on its bioecology and the absence of effective monitoring protocols have constrained the development of sustainable Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This thesis investigated the bioecology of D. ciliatus in a commercial butternut production system with the primary aims of optimising an adult …
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A study of energy-related occupancy activities in a sample of monitored domestic buildings in the UK
… UK, usually require major investment. Long-term monitoring and longitudinal observation are two major features in these major investment projects. The former approach refers to the frequent measurement of indoor / outdoor environments and energy use conducted over at least two heating seasons, in …
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Examining the Influence of Environmental Opportunities and Exposures on Children's Sleep Duration
… STEAM (Spatial Temporal Environmental Activity Monitoring) protocol which involved completion of a survey, daily activity diary, and tracking the time they spent in different environments with a portable Global Position System. This thesis incorporates an innovative analytical approach which …
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Assessing the impacts of white-nose syndrome induced mortality on the monitoring of a bat community at Fort Drum Military Installation
… Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), acoustic monitoring is now likely more effective than traditional capture methodologies. In the summers of 2011 and 2012, I implemented intensive acoustic sampling using Anabat detectors at Fort Drum to develop a summer acoustic monitoring protocol that is …
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Impact of Large Herbivore Use in Meadows on Lentic Function, Wetland Extent and Vegetation Hydric Status
… modified draft lentic assessment, inventory, and monitoring protocol informed the interpretation of riparian proper functioning condition (PFC) assessments about management for PFC. Lentic PFC assessments indicate that none of the study lentic areas have maintained their size, now less than 60% of …
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Environmental Flow Regime Recommendations for the Promotion of Salicaceae Seedling Recruitment in California’s Central Valley
… regimes are effective. It is recommended that monitoring protocol be implemented that assesses the effectiveness of the Central Valley environmental flow regime. Recommendations have also been made to improve flow planning framework and implement an adaptive management approach to river …
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Ecological Effects of Overwater Structures on Subtidal Kelp, Northern Puget Sound, Washington
… subtidal kelp beds and to create a subtidal kelp monitoring protocol. Three sets of floating docks and paired controls were sampled twice during the summer of 2017 for subtidal kelp distribution, biomass, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), substrate, and fish presence. Georeferenced …
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The Effects of Youth Football on the Developing Brain: A Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Study
… this work and develop a novel neuroimaging-based monitoring protocol for both subconcussive and concussive head impacts to enhance brain health in the pediatric population. These methods have the potential to enlighten future clinical management and biomarker development. This dissertation will …
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Cities for birds, birds for cities: The urban ecology of birds across scales from global sampling to individual responses
… birds across scales, from a global standardized monitoring framework to city-level drivers of species prevalence and individual behavioural responses to human activity in an urban songbird. In Chapter 2, I describe and validate the Global Urban Bird Survey, a standardized acoustic monitoring …
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GENETIC POPULATION STRUCTURE AND CONSERVATION OF BULL TROUT IN THE EAST FORK BITTERROOT RIVER DRAINAGE, MONTANA
… their existence. The evaluation of the current monitoring protocol revealed that redd count surveys are not useful. Even though mark-recapture surveys are common, there are few locations where population estimates are obtained. Improving the protocols and combining approaches may improve our …
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GENETIC POPULATION STRUCTURE AND CONSERVATION OF BULL TROUT IN THE EAST FORK BITTERROOT RIVER DRAINAGE, MONTANA
… their existence. The evaluation of the current monitoring protocol revealed that redd count surveys are not useful. Even though mark-recapture surveys are common, there are few locations where population estimates are obtained. Improving the protocols and combining approaches may improve our …
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Lower Scotts Creek Floodplain and Habitat Enhancement Project
… and Wildlife’s (CDFW) salmonid habitat survey protocol (Flosi et al. 2010), and topographic survey techniques and data analysis adapted from Columbia Habitat Monitoring Protocol (Bouwes et al. 2011). Preliminary results indicated that LWCs remained stable and functional. In addition, …
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Diversity of methane and short chain hydrocarbon degrading bacteria with an emphasis on methane biofilter systems
… application of methanotrophic communities in protocol design for monitoring methane biofilter systems, and the analyses of single cell genomes containing new CuMMO-encoding genes. CuMMOs are encoded by three genes, usually in an operon of xmoCAB, and oxidize ammonia, methane, and short chain …
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A camera trap assessment of factors influencing leopard (Panthera pardus) habitat use in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo
… part of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) project - Terrestrial Vertebrate (Camera Trapping) Monitoring Protocol, to estimate the species richness of mammals, the relative abundance of leopard prey species and leopard habitat use in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park (NNNP) …
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A single-centre Preterm infant Retrospective Analysis of post 6-week Immunisation SideEffects, ‘PRAISE' study, in a busy neonatal unit in the Western Cape, South Africa between 2016-2018
… proposed 48–72-hour cardio-respiratory monitoring recommendations which have not been uniformly adopted and may not be feasible in Low-and-Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Objectives: The main objective of this study is to identify the prevalence of major AEs following 6-week …
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Apparent Stress Estimates of Seismic Events Associated with Underground Mining Operations in Sedimentary Rock Units: Implications for Improving Underground Roof Collapse Warning Systems
… mining operations and were initially used by the monitoring systems at the two mines to evaluate the potential for roof failure based on the temporal and spatial distribution of the seismic activity. In an earlier study, the roof failures at the two underground mine locations were found to be the …
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Evaluation of Green Stormwater Infrastructure Monitoring Protocols
… installed without any requirement of long-term monitoring; instead relying on lab-tested or assumed pollutant removal efficiencies that often do not translate into field implementation and do not perform as intended and required by regulatory agencies. Monitoring studies have often been applied …
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Evaluating the Use of Autonomous Recording Units to Monitor Yellow Rails, Nelson's Sparrows, and Le Conte's Sparrows
… planning and guide management. A standardized protocol for monitoring secretive marsh birds exists (Conway 2009, 2011); however, these species call at night and may be missed during early-morning marsh bird surveys. I tested the effectiveness of autonomous recording units (ARUs) to survey these …
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Comparisons of Fish Species Inside and Outside of Marine Protected Areas off the South Central Coast of California
… were designated as MPAs in 2007. Sampling protocols of these two different studies differed in bait used and size of commercial fish trap. An experiment was conducted to simultaneously compare the different trapping and baiting protocols from the prior studies to find a conversion factor …
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