Browsing Student Theses and Honors Collection by Author "Ballantine, Kate"
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Are We in Hot Water?: Comparing Macroinvertebrate Communities and Water Quality over Time
Cook, Shannon (2018-05-08)Freshwater ecosystems, which support a significant portion of the world’s biodiversity, are often plagued by pollution, particularly excess nitrogen and phosphorus. Additionally, freshwater ecosystems are strongly impacted ... -
Denitrification Along a Restoration Gradient of Southeastern Massachusetts Cranberry Bogs
Pierce, Erin (2015-06-22)American cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon, is a wetland fruit native to North America. Cranberries are commercially grown in bogs, which are a type of wetland. The industry has dominated southeastern Massachusetts for over ... -
Do ectomycorrhizae follow market law? An analysis of functional trait distribution in response to anthropogenic environmental change
Michaud, Talia (2020-05-07)Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are considered instrumental mediators of numerous element cycles, including carbon (C). The ectomycorrhizal guild, however, is functionally diverse, rendering C mediation community-specific. ... -
The Groundwater and Surface Water Hydrology of Project Stream, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Shilling, Allison (2017-05-09)The research in this study contains a combination of high-resolution time series data sets taken in intervals ranging from ten seconds to thirty minutes. These data sets were utilized for a quantitative assessment of the ... -
Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: Interpretation of a marl record from Kelly Lake
Wrobleski, Emmy (2019-07-01)Kelly Lake, located in the lowland of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, is a non-glacial, organic-rich, subaqueous spring-fed lake. A sediment core (KLY18-4) recovered from 4 m water depth offers multiple proxies including ... -
Promoting denitrification in restored wetlands: The importance of soil carbon quality
Yao, Si Qi (Cindy) (2015-06-29)Wetlands contribute a wide variety of ecosystem functions, one of which is the improvement of water quality through denitrification. In order to offset the negative environmental impact of destroying wetlands for the sake ... -
“Where the pillars of the earth are standing:” Centering spiritual, political, and ecological power in Uganda’s Lubigi wetland
Stock, Adele (2019-06-27)While most Ugandans remember that Idi Amin was ousted in a war fought by forces of the NRM led by Yoweri Museveni, the healer and python medium Sekyoka Nalubega Muzana Bemba Musota, describes a different war, fought with ...