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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"multispecies"”.
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Multispecies Design
… of human-animal interaction. In this thesis, Multispecies Design is proposed and developed as a theoretical framework for supporting the shift to more biodiverse human habitats. The research addresses both the physical and socio-cultural requirements of such a shift. Three distinct views …
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Analysis of multispecies microcosm experiments
… the community structure inherent in ecosystems. Multispecies microcosm experiments are gaining widespread acceptance as an important vehicle in understanding the nature and magnitude of effects for more complex systems. Microcosm experiments are complex and costly to conduct. Consequently, sample …
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Myco-scapes: Multispecies Entanglements in Artmaking
Myco-scapes: Multispecies Entanglements in Artmaking is a body of ephemeral fiber sculptures. These weavings and digital fabrications are the result of collaborations with dynamic materials and other species, primarily fungi. The artworks (or artifacts) of the artist's material intra-actions …
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Interactions, Heterogeneity, and the Determinants of Multispecies Coexistence
… how interactions shape biodiversity in complex, multispecies communities with environmental heterogeneity, which is of paramount importance in the changing world that we inhabit. In this thesis, I combine the most recent advances in ecological theory with thorough empirical data to explore how …
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Multispecies Syntopia: Collaborative Survival in the Nuclear Anthropocene
My thesis paper argues that we—a multispecies assemblage of humans and non-humans occupying different ecologies—are living in the era of the “Nuclear Anthropocene.” From nuclear contamination to climate change, we find ourselves enmeshed in accumulating ecological crises ever since the Cold War. To …
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Exploring multispecies evolutionary dynamics using model microbial ecosystems
… explore the question of whether evolution in a multispecies community is deterministic or random. We let many replicates of a multispecies laboratory bacterial ecosystem evolve in parallel for hundreds of generations. We found that after evolution, relative abundances of individual species …
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Food Habits of Fish In A Multispecies Farm Pond
Food habits of yellow perch, bluegill, and black crappie were studied during 1970 and 1971 in Abbey Pond, South Dakota. Aquatic insects, zooplankton, mollusks, and fish were the most frequently consumed food items by the three species. Yellow perch led primarily on aquatic insects, zooplankton, and …
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Multispecies reactor design for fluorination reduction of lunar regolith
Citronellal was converted over sulphonated polystyrene resin catalysts of different acid loading. The catalysts had been prepared sulphonating a commercial polystyrene resin with sulfuric acid. Catalyst activities were screened in the liquid phase and in the gas phase in a temperature range of 50 …
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The Effects of Multispecies Grazing on Pasture Management and Utilization
<p>Multispecies grazing research was conducted using meat-type goats (Capra hircus L.) and Jersey heifers (Bos taurus L.) to determine the relationships between multiple grazing treatments and pasture utilization. The study was conducted for 60 days on the Western Kentucky University Farm in …
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Multispecies ion acceleration from intense laser interactions with thin foils
The understanding and demonstration of novel laser driven ion acceleration mechanisms is key to overcoming the limitations of both well understood laser based processes and becoming competitive with conventional particle accelerators. This thesis presents two methods of enhancing the ion energies …
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Multispecies Entanglements and Rural Mental Wellbeing: An Ethnographic Situational Analysis
… discursive interrogation, analytic mapping, and multispecies ethnographic storytelling, this project reimagines rural mental health not as a singular, clinical problem to be solved, but as a complex and plural field of relational and more-than-human entanglements. The resulting work offers both …
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Impact of free living protozoa and bacterial interactions on multispecies biofilms
… of complex microbial communities, including multispecies biofilm. Multispecies biofilms are ubiquitous in most natural and man-made environments; their presence is now subject to ever-increasing attention. Several studies have shown that bacterial species living in complex bacterial …
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Avian brood parasitism as a model system for studying multispecies interactions
… pairwise interactions, the examination of multispecies interactions remains rare despite most brood parasites being known to parasitise multiple species of host and hosts often subject to parasitism by multiple brood parasite species. With little attention paid to these more complex …
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The visitor centre: artistic reconfigurations of multispecies relationships in an urban environment
… thesis focus is predominately on non-reciprocal multispecies relationships between humans and wild and semi-wild species that occur in urban ecosystems. Cartesian dualism has conditioned humans to objectify and “other” nonhuman species, and in identifying this problem, this study examines …
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Me and My Monsters: A multispecies study on schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa
… surrounding schistosomiasis through a multispecies lens. Tsing et al.'s (2017) ‘monsters' is utilised to argue that schistosomiasis is a man-made disease, and our influence of nature only exacerbates the situation. Secondly, the purpose of this dissertation is to bring illness …
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Effectiveness of GentleWave CleanFlow on Multispecies Endodontic Biofilm Removal in Single Rooted Extracted Teeth
… posterior instrument’s ability to remove a multispecies biofilm from a single canaled extracted tooth compared to traditional irrigation techniques. Materials and Methods: Thirty-six single rooted premolar teeth with single canals were prepared to a uniform size, instrumented to size 25.06 …
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Ecotourism and Human-Bear Relations in Ontario: Working for Multispecies Respect and Economic Sustainability
… of targeted, semi-structured interviews and a multispecies reimagining of an Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis (IBPA) framework. Three industry specialists were interviewed in order to interrogate the policy benefits and limitations of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement, as well as bear …
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A Companion Object: Materialising a multispecies sensibility through creative practice in an ecological crisis
How may multispecies fieldwork expand creative practice to promote a decentred human relationship with nature? A case-study using citizen-science moth recording in the UK. This practice-based research develops concepts and methods for decentring the human in relationships with the natural world …
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Multispecies toxicity tests using indigenous organisms: predicting the effects of hazardous materials in streams
The purpose of the investigation presented in chapter 1 was to determine which of the following artificial stream designs would be most logistically simple yet effective in maintaining riffle insects during a 30-d bioassay: 1) static and no current (S-NC); 2) flow-through and no current (FT-NC); 3) …
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