"The role of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex owyheei) in desert pavement
formation in the Summer Lake sand dunes, south central Oregon"
Katherine Leonard's MS Thesis, Portland State University, June
2002
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Chapter 2 (1.8 mb, study area)
Chapter 3 (1.1 mb, desert pavement)
Chapter 4 (0.6 mb, remote sensing)
Chapter 5 (1 mb, ant colonies)
Chapter 6 (1.6 mb, ant transport)
Chapter 7 (1.4 mb, micromorphology)
Chapter 8 (0.5 mb, pebble particle
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Future Work)
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Appendix A (1.3 mb, sand dune
particle sizes)
Appendix B (356 k, sand dune
particle sizes from a different site)
Appendix C (6.3 mb, aerial
photographs)
Appendix D (256 k, remote sensing
results)
Appendix E (700 k, anthill density
plots)
Appendix F (468 k, anthill volume
calculations)
Appendix G (196 k, resin data)
Appendix H (1.7 mb, thin sections)
Appendix I (336 k, alluvium particle
sizes)
Appendix J (280 k, anthill particle
sizes)
Appendix K (196 k, desert pavement
particle sizes)