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Lead poisoning in the globally threatened marbled teal and white‐headed duck in Spain
Marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris) and white‐headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala) are the two European ducks threatened with global extinction. We investigated lead (Pb) poisoning in stifftails (Oxyura spp., n = 83) and marbled teal (n = 80) shot or found dead or moribund in Spanish wetlands via gizzard examination and liver, bone, and blood Pb analysis. Ingested Pb shot was present in 32% of
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Rafael Mateo, A.J. Green, Clinton W. Jeske, Vicente Urios, Cati Gerique
The Cajun Prairie Restoration Project
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Malcolm Vidrine, Charles Allen, Bruno Borsari, Larry K. Allain, Stephen R. Johnson
Pattern and process of land loss in the Mississippi Delta: A spatial and temporal analysis of wetland habitat change
An earlier investigation (Turner 1997) concluded that most of the coastal wetland loss in Louisiana was caused by the effects of canal dredging, that loss was near zero in the absence of canals, and that land loss had decreased to near zero by the late 1990s. This analysis was based on a 15-min quadrangle (approximately 68,000 ha) scale that is too large to isolate processes responsible for small-
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John W. Day, Louis D. Britsch, Suzanne Hawes, Gary P. Shaffer, Denise J. Reed, Donald R. Cahoon
Observations on an autumn flowering population of Prairie Nymph (Herbertia lahue ssp. caerulea) in Southwestern Louisiana
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Stephen R. Johnson
Fire in eastern ecosystems
Prior to Euro-American settlement, fire was a ubiquitous force across most of the Eastern United States. Fire regimes spanned a time-scale from chronic to centuries. Fire severity varied from benign to extreme (fig. 1-2). Today, fire is still a major force on the landscape. In some ecosystems fire stabilizes succession at a particular sere, while in others, succession is set back to pioneer specie
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Dale D. Wade, Brent L. Brock, Patrick H. Brose, James B. Grace, G. A. Hoch, William A. Patterson III
Disruption and restoration of en route habitat, a case study: The Chenier Plain
Cheniers (relict beach ridges) and other habitats adjacent to ecological barriers may be critical linkages in the migratory pathways of long-distance migratory birds. It is important that these wooded habitats provide enough food and cover at the right time to support these birds’ requirements. To date, little attention has been given to the conservation of coastal woodlands, habitats in which en
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Wylie C. Barrow, Chao-Chieh Chen, Robert B. Hamilton, Keith Ouchley, Terry J. Spengler
Comparison of wintering redhead populations in four Gulf of Mexico seagrass beds
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Thomas C. Michot
The hidden costs of coastal hazards: Implications for risk assessment and mitigation
Two-year study undertaken by the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment to develop new strategies to identify and reduce the costs of weather-related hazards associated with rapidly increasing coastal development activities.
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H. Kunreuther, R. Platt, S. Baruch, R. L. Bernknopf, M. Buckley, V. Burkett, D. Conrad, T. Davidson, K. Deutsch, D. Geis, M. Jannereth, A. Knap, H. Lane, G. Ljung, M. McCauley, D. Mileti, T. Miller, B. Morrow, J. Meyers, R. Pielke, A. Pratt, J. Tripp
Nest-site selection by the loggerhead sea turtle in Florida's Ten Thousand Islands
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Ahjond S. Garmestani, H. Franklin Percival, Kenneth M. Portier, Kenneth G. Rice
Summer nesting of turtles in alligator nests in Florida
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Kevin M. Enge, H. Franklin Percival, Kenneth G. Rice, Michael L. Jennings, Gregory R. Masson, Allan R. Woodward
Conveying multiple, complex themes and classes for natural resource assessments
Two methods were used to convey the spatial association between a classified forested landscape, the distribution of a hurricane impact, and the subsequent recovery of the habitat from the storm. The first method used a constant hue matrix with varying intensity to visually represent combinations of impact and recovery magnitudes. The second combined two colors of constant hue to represent the imp
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Elijah Ramsey III, Marshall L. Strong