Thesis Abstracts

A list of Masters thesis abstracts from 1995 - 1999.

2001

Janna Ostoya , Evaluation of a Parametric Bootstrap Goodness-of-Fit Test for Logistic Regression Models

Ayna Savage , A Behavioral Model for Roosevelt Elk.

2000

Brian David Purcell , A Comparitive Study of the Biases and Efficiencies of Tree Density Estimators Using Variable Plot Fixed Plot Sampling in Uneven Aged Stands.

1999

David W. Gilbert , A Population Density Model for the Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) on Humboldt Bay While Affected by an Oil Spill.

Teresa Ann Matsumoto , Sampling Threatened and Endangered Species with Non-constant Occurrence and Detectability: A Sensitivity Analysis of Power when Sampling Low-Occurrence Populations with Varying Probability Parameters.

Barry K. McKee , Modeling Population Presponses of Rainbow Trout to Fishing Pressure in the Henry's Fork of the Snake River in Eastern Idaho.

Indika Rajapakse , A Geometric Analysis of Forest Pest Dynamics

1998

Elizabeth Coleman , An Iterative Mathematical Model for Simulating Gastropod Shell Growth.

Chris Lanning , Modeling Sign-station Data and Pellet-group Count Data Using the Negative Binomial Distribution.

Annjanette M. Dodd , Modeling the Movement of Sediment Slugs in a Channel

David Marshall , A stochastic Spatial Traffic Model for the City of Arcata.

Sonja Manor , Strategies for Optimizing the Monitoring of Avian Populations Occupying Fragmented Landscapes.

Jeffrey A. Detrick , Two Models for the Dynamics of Breeding Mallard ( Anas platyrhynchos) Populations.

1997

Tim Payer , Cohort Based Intraspecific Competition for Refuge Space and It's Effect on Predator-Prey Persistence: A Simulation Model.

Garrett C. Gregor , Modeling the Juvenile Bottleneck on Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) Caused by Threadfin Shad (Dorosoma petenense).

Neil B. McConlogue , Optimizing Habitat Preference Using Natural Selection: A Spatially Explicit Simulator.

1996

Virginia A. Somes , A Model for the Dynamics of the Pygmy Nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea) and Ponderosa Pine Snags in Managed Forest Lands.

Justin E. Heavilin , A Model of Intraspecific Competition for a Dynamically Modeled Resource.

1995

Randall George Binks , Bifurcation in Natural Convection in Horizontal Cylindrical Annuli using Spectral Expansions.

Allison Kimber DeLong , A Habitat Fragmentation Model for the Ovenbird.

Margaret I. Martin , A Model for the Relationship Between the Population Dynamics of Hippopotamus Amphibious and River Flow Rates in Kruger National Park, South America.

Philip M. Zastrow , Tribal Extinction: A Model for the Long-term Consequences of Tribal Enrollment Rules.