Browsing Master's Theses by Author "McCoy, Michael"
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Borrowing ecological principles: Influence of reef placement and habitat complexity on free-living and parasite diversity
Woodard, Nina Cecilia (East Carolina University, 2022-07-25)Environmental factors often shape and regulate the distribution of community assemblages throughout an ecosystem. For example, in the rocky intertidal zones, marine ecologists have identified abiotic forces and biotic ... -
Determining the Drivers of Mosquito and Fish Distributions In An Urban, Riverine Rock Pool Metacommunity
Kernstine, Melissa A (East Carolina University, 2021-07-20)Metacommunities and metapopulations are comprised of interconnected patches of habitat linked by dispersal, which has traditionally been considered a stochastic process in which organisms move across space randomly. Recently ... -
Evaluating a Predator-Induced Phenotype in a Mixed Species Context
Baker, Eleanor Anne (East Carolina University, 2021-07-22)Phenotypic plasticity, a single genotype producing multiple phenotypes in response to environmental change, is crucical to our understanding ecological and evolutionary processes. Adaptive plasticity describes phenotypic ... -
PULSED PREDATION DETERMINES FRESHWATER POND COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY
Titus, Ellen (East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)Historically, community ecologists have assumed constant consumer pressure when modeling predator-prey interactions, however, we know that interactions in most natural systems are dynamic. Inconstant predation may account ...