Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Comparative phylogeography in conservation biology: unravelling the evolutionary histories of disjunct and invasive species around the Laurentian Great Lakes

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Ciotir, Claudia Elena, Thesis advisor (ths): Freeland, Joanna, Degree committee member (dgc): Dorken, Marcel, Degree committee member (dgc): Wilson, Christopher, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Phylogeographic histories of taxa around the Great Lakes region in North America are relevant to a range of ongoing issues including conservation management and biological invasions. In this thesis I investigated the comparative phylogeographic histories of plant species with disjunct distributions and plant species with continuous distributions around the Great Lakes region; this is a… more

Expression and characterization of cytochrome b5 from Giardia lamblia

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Alam, Samiah Ashraf, Thesis advisor (ths): Rafferty, Steven P, Degree committee member (dgc): Yee, Janet, Degree committee member (dgc): Stock, Naomi, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite found globally in freshwater systems that is responsible for endemic outbreaks of infectious diarrhea. As a unicellular parasite that lacks mitochondria, a respiratory chain and lives in the anaerobic environment of its host's intestine, Giardia was assumed for decades to lack heme proteins. However, its genome encodes several putative heme… more

Groundwater Recharge in a Managed Forest on the Oak Ridges Moraine, Southern Ontario

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Bialkowski, Robert John, Thesis advisor (ths): Buttle, James M, Degree committee member (dgc): Metcalfe, Robert M, Degree committee member (dgc): Lafleur, Peter M, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Groundwater recharge was estimated and compared in two open grasslands, three mixed deciduous forest stands (100+ years in age), three young red pine plantations (27 ¨C 29 years in age) and two old red pine plantations (62 ¨C 63 years in age) on the Oak Ridges Moraine, southern Ontario, Canada. Recharge was estimated using a 1-d water balance with measured precipitation, throughfall,… more

Sexual Dimporphism and Population Dynamics of Sub-Arctic Breding Dunlin (Calidris alpina hudsonia) near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Koloski, Laura, Thesis advisor (ths): Nol, Erica, Degree committee member (dgc): Abraham, Ken, Degree committee member (dgc): Schaefer, Jim, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Around the world, many populations of migratory shorebirds appear to be declining. Conservation strategies to reverse declining trends rely on, among other information, a firm understanding of breeding ground population dynamics. From 2010 to 2014, I studied a breeding population of Dunlin (Calidris alpina hudsonia) near Churchill, Manitoba using mark-recapture methods. I found that… more

Calcium in the Muskoka River Watershed- Patterns, trends, the potential impact of forest harvesting and steps toward an ecosystem approach to mitigation

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Reid, Carolyn Roberta, Thesis advisor (ths): Watmough, Shaun A, Degree committee member (dgc): Aherne, Julian, Degree committee member (dgc): Whitfield, Colin J, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Decreasing lake calcium (Ca) concentration, in lakes located in base poor</p><p>catchments of the Muskoka River Watershed (MRW) in south-central Ontario, is a well- established acid-rain driven legacy effect threatening the health and integrity of aquatic ecosystems that can be compounded by additional Ca removals through forest harvesting. The objectives of this thesis were… more