ABSTRACT ESTABLISHING UNDERSTORY PLANTS INTO RESTORED RIPARIAN FOREST ON THE MIDDLE SACRAMENTO RIVER by Prairie L. Johnston Master of Science in Botany California State University, Chico Spring 2009 Restorationists commonly plant overstory and underst . . .

ABSTRACT BILATERAL ASYMMETRY IN TWO SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS IN THE WESTERN FENCE LIZARD (SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS): IMPLICATIONS FOR A CORRELATION WITH LATERALIZED AGGRESSION by Jackson D. Shedd Master of Science in Biological Sciences California S . . .

ABSTRACT HABITAT USE OF JUVENILE CALIFORNIA SPOTTED OWLS (STRIX OCCIDENTALIS OCCIDENTALIS) DURING THE POST-FLEDGING DEPENDENCY PERIOD IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA by Master of Science in Biological Sciences California State University, Chico Spring 2009 . . .

P has long been considered a biologically inert yet essential element to all living organisms. However, our understanding of how P compounds are converted and made available for growth in the environment is greatly lacking. This deficit in our knowled . . .

ABSTRACT BEETLE RESPONSE TO SEASONAL PRESCRIBED FIRE IN BLUE OAK (Quercus douglasii) WOODLANDS OF BIG CHICO CREEK ECOLOGICAL RESERVE by Mark Louis Lynch Master of Science in Biological Sciences California State University, Chico Spring 2011 Fire is an . . .

ABSTRACT IT WAS BUILT… DID THEY COME? HABITAT CHARACTERISTICS OF YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO IN RESTORED RIPARIAN FORESTS ALONG THE SACRAMENTO RIVER, CALIFORNIA by Jessica E. Hammond Master of Science in Biological Sciences California State University, Chico . . .

Rare species can play important roles in the maintenance of ecosystem processes and the associated ecosystem goods and services on which humans rely for their well-being. Conservation of a rare species requires a thorough understanding of how it funct . . .

ABSTRACT INVERTEBRATE DRIFT IN NEIGHBORING PERENNIAL AND SEASONAL TRIBUTARIES OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER by Gina Marie Benigno Master of Science in Biological Sciences California State University, Chico Summer 2011 While seasonal floodplains are known to . . .

Cooperative or eusocial behavior is not unknown among gall-inducing insects, but the ecological and evolutionary contexts which produce such behaviors vary in their details. In Northern California, the manzanita leaf-gall aphid Tamalia coweni has show . . .

ABSTRACT PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SULPHUR DIOXIDE INDUCED STRESS ON VEGETATION UNDER NATURAL CONDITIONS by Michael W. Jenkins Master of Science in Biological Sciences California State University, Chico Spring 2011 This research incorporated a series o . . .