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Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Ouyang, Jenny Q."
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Effects of Artificial Light at Night on Zebra Finch Nocturnal Behavior
Kjer, Kelsey (5/1/2020)With more of the world's population living in urban areas every year, artificial light is becoming an increasingly pervasive pollutant worldwide. It is important to study the potential effects of artificial light at night ... -
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Extraction Protocol for Hormones in Avian Eggs: A Literature Review
Swanbeck, Sarah (5/1/2020)This literature review aims to understand a variety of protocols used in hormone extraction. Hormone extraction from various samples including blood serum, egg yolks, feces, and other biological substances, has been conducted ... -
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Food Availability Influencing Songbird Fitness in Urbanized Landscapes
Tran, Jacquelynn P.V. (5/1/2020)Urbanization can have negative impacts on wildlife diversity through habitat destruction and threats to dependable food sources. In this study, we investigate caterpillars, a food source birds rely on to feed their young, ... -
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Measuring Noise-Induced Stress in Rural and Urban Songbirds
Haddad, Nicole (2017)With landscapes becoming increasingly urban worldwide, it is important for wildlife conservation efforts to monitor the effects that such urbanization has on wildlife and figure out why some individuals become urban adapters ... -
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Pair Coordination of House Wrens, Troglodytes aedon, in Rural and Urban Environments
Becker, Jordyn Noelle (5/1/2020)Urbanization of the environment poses many challenges to biparental avian species, however, it is unknown if urbanization affects pair coordination of provisioning behavior. We observed the parental behavior of pairs of ... -
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The Effects of Exogenous ACTH on Aggression in Mountain Chickadees
Ferguson, Morgan (2018)Aggression, especially male-male aggression, has been well documented in many taxa to be caused by an increase of the sex hormone, testosterone. However, in birds the link between testosterone and aggression is equivocal. ... -
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Untangling the role of glucocorticoids and territory use on nest success in a free-living songbird
Grant, Avery (2019)Glucocorticoids (GC) are hormones that mediate many physiological and behavioral traits and, consequently, play a role in an organism’s reproduction and survival. Researchers have attempted to use baseline and stress-induced ...