Delgado, Alysa Marie(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Belize has the potential to be a sea turtle refuge because of historical nesting activity and a wealth of critical nesting and foraging habitat. The last known nationwide assessment was completed in 1992 as a part of the ...
Barefoot, Carson Reid(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
Commercial thinning and prescribed fire are tools used to accomplish forest management objectives such as increased timber revenue, fuel reductions, and increased biodiversity. Silvicultural treatments can alter forest ...
Sweetman, Brenna(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
This study examines temporal changes in water quality of the Port Honduras Marine Reserve (PHMR), Belize. Trends in dissolved oxygen (DO), salinity, temperature and pH were analyzed from ten sites throughout PHMR for ...
Skeeter, Walker J.(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
The Southeastern United States is a region where increases in temperature have been largely muted when compared to other regions of the country, although extremes in both temperature and precipitation have become more ...
Willson, Kevin(University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)
The ground flora stratum affects stand structure, resource acquisition, nutrient cycling, and taxonomic richness in forest ecosystems. Disturbances, such as thinning and prescribed fire, alter understory growing conditions ...
Shuster, Robert Lewis(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
The applicability of using a boat’s size and speed to predict remotely the energy in its wake was studied. A portion of the Georgiana slough, a tributary of the Sacramento River, was instrumented with a data logger, camera, ...
McGinnis, Cynthia Jolene(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
In 2015-2016, Florida Bay, within Everglades National Park (ENP), experienced a significant seagrass die-off. The park has estimated over 16,000 hectares of the seagrass beds have been affected by the die-off (NPS fact ...
Lombardi, Rachel(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
Flood hazard is a reality in the Southeastern U.S., which is exacerbated by the high uncertainty of flood hazard as a result of short, discontinuous stream gauge records. Extreme flood events captured in the instrumental ...
Nanayakkara Munasinghe, Dinuke Sashi(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
Hydrologic variability plays a major role in structuring the riparian vegetation within river ecosystems. This study evaluates the spatial and temporal response of riparian vegetation to altered flow regimes below 16 river ...
On June 24, 1876, a large military force of the United States Army 7th Cavalry
converged on the lower Little Bighorn Valley in the Montana Territory, aiming to capture a large
number of Native Americans. A major military ...
Buege, Emily(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
Cichlids are among the most diversified families of fish in Central America and thus represent an important component of aquatic biodiversity. Cichlid nesting site selection is important for assemblages that face an uncertain ...
Davis, Kelsi Lyn(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
The process tropical aboveground biomass (AGB) plays in the global carbon cycle is imperative to preserve in the efforts to combat the effects of climate change through climate mitigation strategies. However, there is ...
McWhorter, William(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining is a way of life for many individuals living in developing countries, especially Africa. This subsistence form of mining provides many households with an income to provide food and ...
Bates, Bradford Lee(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
This research uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide a broad perspective on the location of Belizean Bonefish, Permit, and Tarpon (BPT) fisheries and their threats. Participatory mapping and ethnographic surveying ...
With the arrival of Big Data Age, how to mining useful information hidden behind big data has become a hot topic in Geographic Information Science (GIScience). This study examined the spatio-temporal variation of regional ...
Rifat, Shaikh Abdullah Al(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
Landfalling tropical cyclones (TC) in the USA cost 5-10 billion dollars annually. Tropical cyclone related losses can be influenced by the characteristics of a tropical cyclone itself as well as the levels of social ...
Kleinman, Jonathan Samuel(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
Compound disturbances may result in novel forest successional and developmental patterns. This study investigated effects of post-wind disturbance salvage harvesting, a unique compound disturbance of which the ecological ...
Cissell, Jordan Robert(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
The mangrove forests of Ciénaga de Zapata, Cuba, are of critical importance from both biodiversity and ecosystem service perspectives. The peninsula is home to more than 1,000 invertebrate species, more than 80 percent of ...
Ford, Scott(University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
Natural disturbances alter the biophysical conditions of ecosystems, influencing patterns of structure, composition, and successional dynamics. These disturbances often create structural legacies that promote biodiversity ...
Carter, Shawn Michael(University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)
Human industry and agriculture have long-term effects on the erosion and transport of sediment from the continental surface to the ocean. Riverine suspended sediment flux can be increased where soils are exposed to erosion ...