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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"willows"”.
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Phytoremediation of Metal Contamination Using Salix (Willows)
… characteristics of three montane willows native to the Rocky Mountains: <em>Salix drummondiana</em>, <em>S. monticola</em>, and <em>S. planifolia</em>. I tested the willows’ accumulation and tolerance characteristics of cadmium and lead contamination. I found that <em>S. …
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Phytoremediation of Weathered Petroleum in Groundwater by Arroyo Willows in Nutrient Amended On-Site Mesocosms
… OF WEATHERED PETROLEUM IN GROUNDWATER BY ARROYO WILLOWS IN NUTRIENT AMENDED ON-SITE MESOCOSMS SARAH BRAGG-FLAVAN A large-scale mesocosm study was conducted to determine if vegetation with willow trees enhances biodegradation and to evaluate the mechanisms of natural biodegradation of weathered …
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Riparian willow dynamics and their interaction with environmental and biological factors in the elk winter range of Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado) - a multi-scale analysis
… and physiological characteristic of willows protected and unprotected from elk browsing were compared. Browsing induced plant canopy changes and reduced the relative amount of carbon allocated belowground, but aboveground productivity was not changed. By suppressing height growth, elk …
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Riparian willow decline in Colorado: interactions of ungulate browsing, native birds and fungi
Willows (Salix spp.) are critical components of Rocky Mountain riparian ecosystems. They provide food for ungulates and beavers; habitat for resident and migratory bird populations, and amphibians; and are integral components of the structure and function of montane riparian ecosystems. In Rocky …
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Effects of herbivory as an ecological constraint of willow growth at a restored riparian corridor
… of deer browse on growth of recently planted willows. My study design consisted of measuring the difference in growth (height, mean canopy diameter, estimated aerial percent cover, and volume) in relation to three factors (exclusionary deer fencing, side of bank, and willow age) during the …
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Willa Cather and Her Novels
… glistening white sand-bars half overgrown with willows.
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Vegetation Succession and Environmental Relations at the Illisarvik Drained Lake Experiment, Western Arctic Coast, Canada
… increased in cover since drainage. Erect willows have become well-established since 1993, and the increased vegetation height has resulted in deeper snow packs. Surveys of other environmental characteristics in the basin indicated that volumetric water content and vegetation height were …
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The Relationship Between English Language Learners' Phonemic Awareness and Decoding Skills
… during early reading development (Ehri, Nunes, Willows, Schuster, Yaghoub-Zadeh, & Shanahan, 2001). This study was designed to discover if ELLs and non-ELLs show similar relationships between these two variables. There were 11 non-ELLs and 23 ELLs from a rural school in northern California in …
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"""Forms of Some Intenser Life"": Genre and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century"
… The Snake’s Pass, and Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows.” This concentration of generic discontinuities not only demonstrates genre’s formal instability but also its inability to function as a symbolic solution to the real socio-economic contradictions of empire. While these texts reflect the …
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Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets
… than males. This study, based on the findings of Willows (2012), is a literature-based dissertation that investigates gender differences among mutual fund investors and mutual fund managers, as well as the gender differences in mutual fund investors in both developed markets and emerging markets. …
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Bridging the_Gap: Using design thinking to move FMCG NPD from incremental to radical innovation
This paper explores three distinct layers of impact within the seafood industry: a transformation in professional practice, a resolved product and implementation plan and a new design-led FMCG framework that can be applied across the FMCG sector. Within these three layers of impact are five key …
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She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender
Research in behavioural finance has shown that individuals do not always behave rationally. As a result of this they do not make investment decisions in such a way as to maximise their expect- ed utility. Certain behavioural biases have been found to explain this behaviour. Furthermore, differences …
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Bald Eagle Foraging Habitats Along the James River in Missouri: Protection From Human Developments
… mix pixels, for example, water with trees, water willows, and gravel bars within the river. Remote sensing maps indicated favorable edges and wooded areas for bald eagle foraging habitats by the use of a white-stippled pattern over these areas. For protection of these preferred bald eagle …
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"Reading Is Meant For Training": Maps, Nation, and Empire In British Children's Literature, 1800-1940
… books: Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The four texts and their accompanying maps suggest a shift away from the goal-oriented maps of foreign countries that characterized the …
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Auditory Training and its Effect on the Phonemic Awareness Development of Individuals with Dyslexia Who Have a Deficit in Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
… together to create a new word (Ehri, Nunes, Willows, Schuster, Yaghoub-Zadeh, and Shanahan, 2001). <p>Auditory training in this study required the participant to discriminate and isolate between sounds, distinguish between qualities of sound through major and minor chords, and included …
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Factors influencing the distribution of late-seral woody species along the upper Missouri River in central Montana
… on early seral species such as cottonwoods and willows, other woody species, including green ash, box-elder, chokecherry, serviceberry, currant, and red-osier dogwood, also provide important structure and diversity to riparian forests. These species, called late-seral woody species, are …
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Factors influencing the distribution of late-seral woody species along the upper Missouri River in central Montana
… on early seral species such as cottonwoods and willows, other woody species, including green ash, box-elder, chokecherry, serviceberry, currant, and red-osier dogwood, also provide important structure and diversity to riparian forests. These species, called late-seral woody species, are …
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