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Lights Out Buckeyes - Factors Influencing Avian Window Collisions
Glanville, Kandace ( 2019-05 )Migratory songbirds migrate primarily at night. Artificial lighting disrupts this natural phenomenon by disorienting and drawing in birds that migrate through urban landscapes each spring and fall. In the United States, ... -
Lights Out Buckeyes – Landscape and Architectural Influences on Avian Window Collisions
Ficker, Tyler ( 2020-05 )Window collisions due to both glass reflectivity and lights at night are the second leading cause of bird death in the United States (Klem 1990). Many efforts have begun across the country to more accurately assess the ... -
The Long-Term Consequences of Deer Browse in Temperate and Boreal Forests
Reed, Samuel ( 2017-05 )White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) overabundance has sparked dramatic changes in forests throughout North America. In Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest and Quebec’s Anticosti Island, I investigated how deer ... -
Looking Long-Term: Do Environmental Education Programs Have Lasting Impacts on Perceptions of Nature?
Rhodes, Sarah ( 2013-08 )Environmental education seeks to develop a population that is concerned about the environment and its associated problems, and which is dedicated to solving these issues. Much of prior research has focused on the short-term ... -
Measuring the Implicit Value of Subsurface Mineral Rights in Eastern Ohio
Cultice, Brian ( 2016-05 )Shale gas development has proliferated in eastern Ohio, leading to questions about the economic impacts of the influx of entities seeking to explore and extract minerals in the region. A major source of economic gain for ... -
The moderating effect of stress on the relationship between air pollution and self-rated health in minorities
Brown, Kathryn ( 2018-05 )Minorities have long been discriminated against in the United States, and redlining policies pursued in the 1920s-60s prevented African-Americans from moving outside polluted inner city neighborhoods. This resulted in the ... -
The Optokinetic Response of Fishes to Different Levels of Turbidity
Robbins, Jeffrey ( 2016-05 )Many fish need light to school, reproduce, and forage. Without enough light penetrating into an aquatic system fish may not be able to accomplish these tasks, thus compromising their ability to persist. Turbidity, or ... -
Perceived Impacts of Community Gardens: Analysis by Structure and Funding Sources
Kitchen, Dustin ( 2017-05 )Community gardening programs are present in many communities throughout Ohio. Little research has looked into the relationship of structural factors of a garden and the perceived impacts garden leaders see from their work. ... -
Playing the Game: Trout Unlimited’s engagement with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in advocating dam removal on the Clyde River, VT and the Kennebec River, ME
Meyer, Kurtis ( 2011-03 )This paper examines interactions between the non-profit interest group Trout Unlimited (TU) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) during debates over dam removal. It uses one case study on the Clyde River in ... -
Poor Pawpaw Production in Woodland Patches- What's the Explanation?
Brigner, Liberty ( 2016-05 )The pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is a small fruit-bearing tree in the Annonaceae family, known for being the only tree native to the United States that bears large edible fruit (Callaway, 1990). These trees are of high cultural ... -
Predicting Sustainable Lifestyle Behaviors: A Comparison Against Environmental Behaviors
Perzynski, David ( 2013-08 )Owing to empirical data from Environmental Psychology and Environmental Policymaking, measures such as political ideology, worldview, age, gender and income are commonly used to predict environmental behavior. The purpose ... -
Prediction of Stage, Bathymetry, and Riparian Vegetation of the Lower Olentangy River After Removal of the Fifth Avenue Dam
Naegele, Alexandra ( 2010-06 )The Olentangy River is a third order stream as it passes through urban Columbus, Ohio with an average flow of 191 ± 13 cfs and an annual peak flow of 2372 cfs (67.2 m3/sec). As it passes through the city, it is impounded ... -
Promoting Cover Crop Adoption to Improve Water Quality in Agricultural Landscapes
Carros, Olivia ( 2018-05 )Nutrient loading and associated algal blooms resulting from agricultural runoff are a pressing environmental concern for the Great Lakes. Cover crops are an important Best Management Practice (BMP) useful for reducing ... -
Quantifying Differences in Water Quality Metrics in the South Fork and East Branch Tributaries of the Sugar Creek Watershed, Ohio
Anderson, Roxanne ( 2014-08 )One of the most influential factors of water quality is nutrient pollution, notably agricultural inputs of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) compounds, which have been a growing problem for the last few decades, contributing ... -
Quantifying the Ecological Footprint of the Ohio State University
Janis, Jaclyn ( 2007-06 )Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) was introduced in the 1990s to measure the environmental impact of individual nations by calculating their resource use and converting it into a measure of ecologically-productive land ... -
Quantifying the Water Footprint: Growing Crops Sustainably in Northwest India
Holcomb, Megan ( 2011-06 )When the Green Revolution was ushered in India in the 1960s, the historically-diverse and rain-fed agricultural practices followed for millennia changed dramatically. The decline in groundwater resources across Northern ... -
The relationship between turbidity and carotenoid-based coloration of centrarchid fishes in urban streams
Atkinson, Tiffany ( 2016-05 )Agricultural and urbanization practices cause runoff of nutrients and sediments into aquatic systems, leading to elevated turbidity levels (i.e., amount of suspended particles in the water) and loss of aquatic biodiversity. ... -
Relationships between Status Perception and Pro-Environmental Behaviors
De Nardo, Matheus ( 2014-08 )This study explores the perceived social status associated with a variety of environmentally-friendly behaviors among individuals in groups who differ in their environmental orientation. Individuals in both the environmental ... -
Religious and Environmental Values: Discovering the Landscape
Richards, Jamie ( 2019-05 )Religion has had a contested identity within the environmental movement. Some have argued that religion has had an historically problematic environmental influence, and may still be of limited utility to the solution of ... -
Researching the Effectiveness of Agricultural Programs: An Analysis of Conservation Engagement in Four Great Lakes Watersheds
Tellez, Callia ( 2020-05 )Agricultural producers in the Great Lakes Basin have received over $100 million from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for agricultural conservation practices intended to influence on-farm decision making and improve ...