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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The Ovipositor of the Cicada
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The Larridae of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1913)This paper is the result of about two years of study on that group of insect-catching wasps known as the Larridae. The work done embraces the field observations and collections of three consecutive summers (1910-1912),spent ... -
The Influence of Food and Temperature Upon the Growth and Development of the Green Bug
(University of Kansas, 1913-05-15) -
Membracidae
(University of Kansas, 1912-02) -
Some Fungi Attacking Corn
(University of Kansas, 1910) -
Essential and Fixed Oils of Kansas Plants
(University of Kansas, 1908)The following report deals with those Kansas plants (one or two trees included) which are known to yield or are suspected of yielding essential and fixed oils . No cultivated plants have been considered. Bernard B, ... -
The Anatomical Considerations of Ectopic Gestation
(University of Kansas, 1908) -
On the Dorsal Glands as Characters of Constant Specific Value in the Coccid Genus, Parlatoria
(University of Kansas, 1904) -
Pollination in the Genus Solanum
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Dipterological Contributions
(University of Kansas, 1903) -
The Spermatocyte Divisions of the Lucustidae
(University of Kansas, 1902) -
Not Easy Being Mead's: Comparative Herbivory on Three Milkweeds, Including Threatened Mead's Milkweed (Asclepias meadii), and Seedling Ecology of Mead's Milkweed
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Chapter 1: Comparative Herbivory and Herbivore Effects on Reproduction for Three Milkweeds (Asclepias) in Two Landscape Contexts. The ability of herbivores to regulate plant populations depends on many factors including ... -
What constrains directional selection on complex traits in the wild?
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)The fact that abundant genetic variation persists within populations despite strong directional selection on complex traits is one of the unresolved conundrums in evolutionary biology. In this dissertation, I employed a ... -
Pollinator attractors: petaloidy and petal epidermal cell shape in close relatives of snapdragon
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)The diversity of angiosperms in floral form and development has been an area of interest for biologists. A multitude of studies investigating the evolution of flowering plants have attempted to determine why angiosperms ... -
New Behavioral Insights Into Home Range Orientation of the House Mouse (Mus musculus)
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-06)Home-range orientation is a necessity for an animal that maintains an area of daily activity. The ability to navigate efficiently among goals not perceived at the starting point requires the animal to rely on place recognition ... -
Natural History, Learning, And Social Behavior in Solitary Sweat Bees (Hymenoptera, Halictidae)
(University of Kansas, 1991-04-02)The natural history of two Costa Rican species of sweat bees was studied to better understand the advantages and disadvantages associated with group-living and cooperative behavior in bees. One of the bees was a new species, ... -
Behavioral and Physiological Ecology and Community Structure of Tropical Cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria)
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A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Bee Tribe Epeolini, with a Review of the Genus Triepeolus
(University of Kansas, 2006)A generic-level cladistic analysis of the cleptoparasitic bee tribe Epeolini (Apinae: Nomadinae) is presented. One hundred and two characters of adult external morphology are identified and coded for 32 species representing ... -
Ecological Gradients in Diversity and Abundance: A Search for Patterns and Processes in Small Mammal Communities
(University of Kansas, 2003)One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is: what are the patterns of diversity and the mechanisms that produce them? Many biological theories have been proposed to explain latitudinal and elevational diversity ... -
Carbon Dynamics in Aquatic Ecosystems in Response to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Altered Nutrients Availability
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-26)Aquatic ecosystems will experience altered inorganic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous availability in the future due to elevated atmospheric CO2, stronger stratification and anthropogenic activities. Despite its importance ...