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Shorebird habitat availability assessment of agricultural fields using a digital aerial video system
Field and wetland conditions in the rice prairies of Louisiana and Texas are highly dynamic habitats. Rice prairies are important habitat for many species of migratory birds, including shorebirds, wading birds, and waterfowl. Ground sampling a variety of fields to assess habitat availability is very labor intensive, and accessibility to private lands makes statistical habitat sampling almost impos
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Clinton W. Jeske, Scott A. Wilson, Paul C. Chadwick, Wylie Barrow
An exploratory assessment of Cuban Treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis) tadpoles as predators of native and nonindigenous tadpoles in Florida
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Kevin G. Smith
Guidelines for the use of fishes in research
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J.G. Nickum, H.L. Bart, P.R. Bowser, I.E. Greer, C. Hubbs, Jill A. Jenkins, J.R. MacMillan, J.W. Rachlin, J. D. Rose, P. W. Sorenson, J.R. Tomasso
Light attenuation profiling as an indicator of structural changes in coastal marshes
To best respond to natural and human-induced stresses, resource managers and researchers require remote sensing techniques that can map the biophysical characteristics of natural resources on regional and local scales. The implementation of advanced measurement techniques would provide significant improvements in the quantity, quality, and timeliness of biophysical data useful in understanding the
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Elijah Ramsey III, Gene Nelson, Frank Baarnes, R. Spell
Gulf coast states wood stork tracking project
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Tommy Michot, Clinton W. Jeske
Soils and sediment: Understanding wetland biogeochemistry
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Stephen Faulkner
Evaluating the effect of salinity on a simulated American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) population with applications to conservation and Everglades restoration
Everglades restoration will alter the hydrology of South Florida, affecting both water depth and salinity levels in the southern fringes of the Everglades, the habitat of the endangered American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). A key question is what the effects of these hydrologic changes will be on the crocodile population. Reliable predictions of the viability of endangered species under a variet
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Paul M. Richards, Wolf M. Mooij, Donald L. DeAngelis
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Synthesis and perspectives
Does diversity matter in restored communities? This edited book explores the diversity–function debate, which has raged in ecology during the past several decades. The diversity–function question is relevant in restoration, but the question has not yet received a straightforward hearing in the field of restoration science. None of the authors of this book explicitly relate their ideas to restorati
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Beth A. Middleton, James B. Grace
Characterization of the habitat of Lythrum salicaria L. in floodplain forests in western Turkey—Effects on stem height and seed production
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) is an invasive wetland perennial in North America native to Eurasia. Because light environment may limit the species’ distribution, information on the relationship of forest canopy coverage to relative height and seed set in its native environment could give insight into its control in North America. This study examined the effect of various light environment
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Cengiz Ture, Nuket Akanil Bingol, Beth A. Middleton
Evolutionary stability of mutualism: interspecific population regulation as an evolutionarily stable strategy
Interspecific mutualisms are often vulnerable to instability because low benefit : cost ratios can rapidly lead to extinction or to the conversion of mutualism to parasite–host or predator–prey interactions. We hypothesize that the evolutionary stability of mutualism can depend on how benefits and costs to one mutualist vary with the population density of its partner, and that stability can be mai
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J. Nathaniel Holland, Donald L. DeAngelis, Stewart T. Schultz
The effects of mixotrophy on the stability and dynamics of a simple planktonic food web
Recognition of the microbial loop as an important part of aquatic ecosystems disrupted the notion of simple linear food chains. However, current research suggests that even the microbial loop paradigm is a gross simplification of microbial interactions due to the presence of mixotrophs—organisms that both photosynthesize and graze. We present a simple food web model with four trophic species, thre
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Christian Jost, Cathryn A. Lawrence, Francesca Campolongo, van de Bund Wouter, Sheryl Hill, Donald L. DeAngelis
Urbanization impacts on the structure and function of forested wetlands
The exponential increase in population has fueled a significant demographic shift: 60% of the Earth's population will live in urban areas by 2030. While this population growth is significant in its magnitude, the ecological footprint of natural resource consumption and use required to sustain urban populations is even greater. The land use and cover changes accompanying urbanization (increasing hu
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Stephen Faulkner