Browsing by Subject "Adaptation"
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A Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for the City of Atlanta, Georgia
(2010-04-28)The Southeastern United States will experience several impacts from climate change over the coming decades, including average temperature increases of several degrees, more frequent droughts, and heavier rain and flood events. ... -
A Ripe Future? Coastal Climate Perceptions and Adaptations among the Long Island Wine Industry
(2017-04-28)Coastal climates have distinctive effects on the growth, quality, and quantity produced of wine grapes. A changing coastal climate could alter these interactions and impact regional wine style and variety. There is a need ... -
Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws
(2012)This dissertation examines the adaptability of civic cults during the Hellenistic period. Faced with shifting populations, increasing social tensions, economic changes, and political pressures, Hellenistic communities devised ... -
Analysis of Climate Adaptation Strategies for Southeast U.S. Coastal Cities
(2008-04-25)The realities of climate change are no longer future predictions to address in years to come. Impacts to Southeast coastal communities from rising sea levels, strange weather, and stronger storms caused by a warming planet ... -
Climate science strategy of the US National Marine Fisheries Service
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Darfur, Conflict and Climate Change
(2008-04-25)The issue of climate change poses to be one of the most pressing challenges facing community of nation states in the 21st century. While both developed and developing nations will feel the far-reaching impacts of climate ... -
Dopaminergic modulation of retinal processing from starlight to sunlight.
(Journal of pharmacological sciences, 2019-05-04)Neuromodulators such as dopamine, enable context-dependent plasticity of neural circuit function throughout the central nervous system. For example, in the retina, dopamine tunes visual processing for daylight and nightlight ... -
Identifying branch-specific positive selection throughout the regulatory genome using an appropriate proxy neutral.
(BMC genomics, 2020-05-13)BACKGROUND:Adaptive changes in cis-regulatory elements are an essential component of evolution by natural selection. Identifying adaptive and functional noncoding DNA elements throughout the genome is therefore crucial for ... -
Investigating the Genetic, Evolutionary, and Functional Mechanisms of Adaptations to Copper Mine Tailings in Mimulus guttatus
(2017)The evolution of copper tolerance in the common yellow monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus, is a classic example of rapid adaptation in plants; however, little is yet known about the genetic, functional, and evolutionary mechanisms ... -
Parental Conflict, Parent of Origin Effects, and the Evolution of Hybrid Seed Failure in Mimulus
(2018)The earth is home to roughly 9 million eukaryotic species. The formation and maintenance of this diversity requires the accumulation of barriers to reproduction. One of the most common post-zygotic barriers in plants is ... -
Retelling Dmitri Karamazov’s Story in an Interactive Graphic Novel
(2018)This thesis discusses the subject and media of Dmitri Karamazov an interactive graphic novel with Augmented Reality component. Dmitri Karamazov is adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel the Brothers Karamazov. The author uses a ... -
Stochastic Dynamics and Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expression: from Stimulus Response to Evolutionary Adaptation
(2016)How organisms adapt and survive in continuously fluctuating environments is a central question of evolutionary biology. Additionally, organisms have to deal with the inherent stochasticity in all cellular processes. The ... -
The Evolution of the Glucosinolate Pathway in the Brassicaceae
(2013)Understanding the mechanisms that underlie the formation of, and innovation in biochemical pathways is an important goal in evolutionary biology. The following work addresses the problem of biochemical pathway evolution ... -
The Political Economy of Climate Adaptation and Environmental Health: The Case of Ethiopia
(2016)The environment affects our health, livelihoods, and the social and political institutions within which we interact. Indeed, nearly a quarter of the global disease burden is attributed to environmental factors, and many ... -
The role of dispersal and adaptive divergence in the diversification and speciation of the tribe Brassiceae and genus Cakile
(2013)Adaptation is central to our understanding of the origin of biological diversity. Yet whether adaptive divergence promotes the formation of new lineages remains poorly understood. My dissertation addresses the role of adaptive ... -
Theoretical and Emperical Investigations into Adaptation
(2010)The problem is two fold: how does natural selection operate on systems of interacting genes and how does natural selection operate in natural populations. To address the first problem, I have conducted a theoretical investigation ... -
Two Antarctic penguin genomes reveal insights into their evolutionary history and molecular changes related to the Antarctic environment.
(Gigascience, 2014)BACKGROUND: Penguins are flightless aquatic birds widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The distinctive morphological and physiological features of penguins allow them to live an aquatic life, and some of them have ...
