The impact of climate change and land use change on species population dynamics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Two of the most important drivers of species loss are climate change and land use change. Although climate change and land use change are widely studied, we know little about the interaction of changing climate and habitat degradation on a population's dynamics or how a population will respond to increasing environmental variability. To understand how both of these factors affect species population dynamics, I use a variety of methods, including simulation-based and theoretical approaches, and the application of empirical data. In this thesis, I (1) downscale extreme event modeling to an ecologically-relevant spatial scale using generalized extreme value theory and apply this method to a hurricane-disturbed subtropical understory shrub in Southeast Florida, (2) analyze the sensitivity of the stochastic growth rate to changes in transitions between environmental states, and (3) use a simulation-based study of the interaction of climate change and habitat degradation on a population's time to extinction.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Rypkema, Diana |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Tuljapurkar, Shripad, 1951- |
| Thesis advisor | Tuljapurkar, Shripad, 1951- |
| Thesis advisor | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Thesis advisor | Fukami, Tadashi, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Horvitz, Carol Cecile, 1950- |
| Degree committee member | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Degree committee member | Fukami, Tadashi, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Horvitz, Carol Cecile, 1950- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Biology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Diana Rypkema. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Biology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Diana Rypkema
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
Also listed in
Loading usage metrics...