Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The predator vs. prey dynamic is an omnipresent factor in ecological systems that may drive changes in life history patterns in prey animals through behavioural, morphological, and physiological changes. Predation risk can have profound effects on the life history events of an animal, and is influenced by the neuroendocrine stress response. Activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-… more Full Text: TIME-DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF PREDATION RISK ON STRESSOR REACTIVITY AND GROWTH IN DEVELOPING LARVAL ANURANS (Lithobates pipiens) A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of …
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Ogungbemide, Damilare Immanuel, Thesis advisor (ths): McKenna Neuman, Cheryl, Degree committee member (dgc): Lafleur, Peter, Degree committee member (dgc): Buttle, Jim, Degree committee member (dgc): Hill, Stephen, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>A set of experiments was designed to investigate the factors—atmospheric and surficial—controlling fugitive dust emissions from the tailings ponds of UNIMIN Canada, a mining company that extracts and produces nepheline syenite (feldspar) at two adjacent sites (Nephton and Blue Mountain) located north of Havelock, Ontario. Using wind tunnel measurements, the combined influence of relative… more Full Text: INVESTIGATION OF FUGITIVE DUST EMISSIONS FROM NEPHELINE SYENITE MINE TAILINGS NEAR NEPHTON, ONTARIO A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of …
