• Spider Phylogenomics: Untangling the Spider Tree of Life 

  Garrison, Nicole L.; Rodriguez, Juanita; Agnarsson, Ingi; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Griswold, Charles E.; Hamilton, Christopher A.; Hedin, Marshal; Kocot, Kevin M.; Ledford, Joel M.; Bond, Jason E. (2016)

  Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over 380 million years. Spiders have long served as evolutionary ...
• Characterizing Growing Season Length of Subtropical Coniferous Forests with a Phenological Model 

  Gong, Yuan; Staudhammer, Christina L.; Wiesner, Susanne; Starr, Gregory; Zhang, Yinlong (2021)

  Understanding plant phenological change is of great concern in the context of global climate change. Phenological models can aid in understanding and predicting growing season changes and can be parameterized with gross ...
• Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Two Scaphopod Molluscs 

  Kocot, Kevin M.; Wollesen, Tim; Varney, Rebecca M.; Schwartz, Megan L.; Steiner, Gerhard; Wanninger, Andreas (2019)

  Complete mitochondrial genomes were determined for two scaphopod molluscs: the dentaliid Antalis entalis and an unidentified Antarctic gadilid. Both genomes are complete except, in Gadilida sp. indet., a short stretch of ...
• The Stoichiometry of Larval Anuran Development in Natural Wetlands 

  McLeay, Scott M.; Smith, Lora L.; Atkinson, Carla L. (2019)

  Understanding the influence of growth and development on the stoichiometry of organisms with complex lifecycles is necessary to understand the spatial and temporal extent of consumer-driven nutrient dynamics. This can be ...
• The effect of Hurricane Michael on the structure and function of longleaf pine woodlands 

  Kenney, Gavin Ross (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Hurricanes are increasing in intensity due to climate change and can physically alter ecosystems, causing immediate and potentially long-lasting effects on carbon dynamics. On October 10, 2018, Hurricane Michael hit the ...
• Assembly and annotation of diverse genomes using long-read sequencing technologies 

  Sutton, John Michael (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The creation of high-quality reference genomes has become increasingly feasible for researchers with the democratization of DNA sequencing brought on by third generation sequencing platforms. New tools are now in the hands ...
• Biomineralization in the radula of the chiton acanthopleura granulata 

  Varney, Rebecca Michelle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Chitons (Polyplacophora; Mollusca) are an emerging model for studies of biomineralization because they build a wide array of hardened structures from several different materials. Chitons make iron-clad teeth by coating ...
• Variation and Adaptation in the Imported Fire Ant Solenopsis Saevissima Richteri Forel in the Gulf States 

  Willson, Edward O. (1950)

  The imported fire ant, Solenopsis saevissima richteri Forel, is the southernmost race of a widespread and highly variable South American ant. It was introduced into the port of Mobile, Alabama, sometime around 1918 and by ...
• Influence of lab adapted natural diet, genotype, and microbiota on drosophila melanogaster larvae 

  Bombin, Andrei (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)

  Obesity is an increasing pandemic and is caused by multiple factors including genotype, psychological stress, and gut microbiota. Our project investigated the effects produced by microbiota community, acquired from the ...
• Multi-faceted “mudbugs”: how ecology, hydrogeology, and geomorphology influence burrowing crayfish biodiversity in alabama’s black belt prairie 

  Bearden, Rebecca Ann (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)

  Aquatic species are facing imperilment at a disproportionate rate compared to terrestrial species and thus higher probabilities of extinction. The southeastern United States has an exceptionally high level of freshwater ...
• Fungal succession and carbon quality as drivers of nitrogen removal capacity in a constructed salt marsh 

  Starr, Sommer Faith (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Coastal wetlands mitigate excess nutrient inputs by acting as important sites of denitrification. Despite their role in removing excess nitrogen, coastal wetland area has declined by more than 50% in the 20th century, ...
• Constructing a graphical model of the Drosophila melanogaster metabolome 

  Oza, Vishal Himanshu (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Metabolomics, a relatively late entrant in the ’omics’ pyramid, aims to capture a complete snapshot of the metabolome of an organism at any given point in time. Recent advances in mass spectrometry techniques have allowed ...
• Effects of Herbivory, Competition, and Disturbance on a Wetland Plant Community with Emphasis on the Dominant Aquatic Macrophyte, Nymphaea Odorata Aiton 

  Cherry, Julia Adelaide (University of Alabama Libraries, 2005)

  To examine the contribution of seed banks to the formation of distinct plant assemblages after a physical disturbance, plant percent cover on and off floating islands was assessed in the field. A controlled greenhouse seed ...
• Development and life-history traits affect larval anuran stoichiometry: a framework for understanding the role of larval anurans in wetland nutrient storage 

  Knapp, Daniel David (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Larval anurans may constitute the primary biomass of animals in geographically isolated wetlands (GIWs), but few studies have attempted to identify factors that influence larval body stoichiometry or their role in nutrient ...
• Investigating the population genomic effects of inhabiting heterogeneous landscapes across multiple spatial and time scales in montane bumble bees 

  Jackson, Jason (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Heterogeneous landscapes and the complex combinations of abiotic variation in both terrain and environmental variables such as temperature can drive patterns of genomic divergence and diversification across multiple ...
• The impact of nutrient loading on nitrogen removal and carbon dynamics in a juncus roemerianus and spartina alterniflora dominated salt marsh in the northern Gulf of Mexico 

  Ledford, Taylor (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Increased anthropogenic nutrient loading of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to estuaries and bays can lead to eutrophication, anoxia or hypoxia, and/or loss of native or other important species. Coastal salt marshes help ...
• A Systematic Revision of the Genus Heteranthera (sensu lato; Pontederiaceae) 

  Horn, Charles Norman (University of Alabama Libraries, 1985)

  The genus Heteranthera Ruiz and Pavon (sensu lato) contains species which grow submersed or emersed in streams and marshes. Species of the genus are found mainly in tropical and subtropical areas of the New World and Africa. ...
• The Occurence, Abundance and Distribution of Populations of Larval Fishes in Wheeler Reservoir, Alabama 

  Mundy, Phillip Roy (1973)

  This study of the larval fishes of Wheeler Reservoir deals with the data from the first year (1971) of a continuing, preoperational icthyofaunal monitoring program in the area of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Electric Generating ...
• Using C. elegans to investigate neuroprotective and risk-associated genes in Alzheimer’s disease 

  Griffin, Edward Franklin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Intracellular accumulation of toxic protein aggregates is the hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s (PD), Alzheimer’s (AD), and Huntington’s. Despite the association of AD with amyloid plaques, ...
• Influence of native freshwater mussel functional traits and community structure on nitrogen removal in stream sediments 

  Nickerson, Zachary Lynn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Animals physically and chemically modify their environment as a result of their functional traits. These effects are particularly influential in freshwater benthic environments where animal aggregations can impact the ...

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