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Did intense volcanism trigger the first Late Ordovician icehouse? REPLY
We appreciate the Comment by Herrmann et al. (2011) to our paper (Buggisch et al., 2010). When we compiled the data set for our publication, we were aware that we had not enough pre-Deicke conodont oxygen isotope data because Webers’ (1966) conodont collections from the Pecatonica Member did not yield enough specimens for isotope analysis. At that time, the recently published data of Herrmann et a
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Werner Buggisch, Michael M. Joachimski, Oliver Lehnert, Stig M. Bergström, John E. Repetski
Conodont biostratigraphy and stable isotope stratigraphy across the Ordovician Knox/Beekmantown unconformity in the central Appalachians
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Stephen A. Leslie, Matthew R. Saltzman, S. M. Bergström, J. E. Repetski, A. Howard, A.M. Seward
Barite
The article discusses the latest developments in the barite or baryte industry, particularly in the U.S., as of June 2011. It claims that the bulk of barites production in the country comes from four mines in Nevada, including the Big Ledge Mine, the Rossi Mine and the Greystone Mine. It cites that barite is mainly used as a weighting agent in natural gas and oil field drilling muds. Barite is als
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M. Miller
Multi-species attributes as the condition for adaptive sampling of rare species using two-stage sequential sampling with an auxiliary variable
Assessing populations of rare species is challenging because of the large effort required to locate patches of occupied habitat and achieve precise estimates of density and abundance. The presence of a rare species has been shown to be correlated with presence or abundance of more common species. Thus, ecological community richness or abundance can be used to inform sampling of rare species. Adapt
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B. Panahbehagh, D. R. Smith, M.M. Salehi, D.J. Hornbach, D.J. Brown
Introduction; Concluding remarks
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Jari Niemela, Jiirgen Breuste, Thomas Elmqvist, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Philip James, Nancy McIntyre
Mortality of American alligators attributed to cannibalism
Mortality of juvenile (
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Michael F. Delany, Allan R. Woodward, Richard A. Kiltie, Clinton T. Moore
Movement patterns of Bar-headed Geese Anser indicus during breeding and post-breeding periods at Qinghai Lake, China
The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 outbreak at Qinghai Lake, China, in 2005 caused the death of over 6,000 migratory birds, half of which were Bar-headed Geese Anser indicus. Understanding the movements of this species may inform monitoring of outbreak risks for HPAI viruses; thus, we investigated the movement patterns of 29 Bar-headed Geese at Qinghai Lake, China during 2007 and 20
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Peng Cui, Yuansheng Hou, Mingjie Tang, Haiting Zhang, Yuanchun Zuohua, Zuohua Yin, Tianxian Li, Shan Guo, Zhi Xing, Yubang He, Diann J. Prosser, Scott H. Newman, John Y. Takekawa, Baoping Yan, Fumin Lei
Monitoring bald eagles using lists of nests: Response to Watts and Duerr
The post-delisting monitoring plan for bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) roposed use of a dual-frame sample design, in which sampling of known nest sites in combination with additional area-based sampling is used to estimate total number of nesting bald eagle pairs. Watts and Duerr (2010) used data from repeated observations of bald eagle nests in Virginia, USA to estimate a nest turnover rat
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John R. Sauer, Mark C. Otto, William L. Kendall, Guthrie S. Zimmerman
Migration strategies of Swan Geese Anser cygnoides from northeast Mongolia
In 2006–2008, 25 Swan Geese Anser cygnoides were marked with solar-powered GPS satellite transmitters in northeast Mongolia to examine the timing and pathways of their migration. Most geese began their autumn migration in August, flying southeast toward a staging area at the Yalu River Estuary on the China-North Korea border. After staging for several weeks, the Swan Geese continued to their winte
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Nyambayar Batbayar, John Y. Takekawa, Scott H. Newman, Diann J. Prosser, Tseveenmyadag Natsagdorj, Xiangming Xiao
Methane hydrates and contemporary climate change
As the evidence for warming climate became better established in the latter part of the 20th century (IPCC 2001), some scientists raised the alarm that large quantities of methane (CH4) might be liberated by widespread destabilization of climate-sensitive gas hydrate deposits trapped in marine and permafrost-associated sediments (Bohannon 2008, Krey et al. 2009, Mascarelli 2009). Even if only a fr
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Carolyn D. Ruppel
Modelling the distribution of domestic ducks in Monsoon Asia
Domestic ducks are considered to be an important reservoir of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), as shown by a number of geospatial studies in which they have been identified as a significant risk factor associated with disease presence. Despite their importance in HPAI epidemiology, their large-scale distribution in Monsoon Asia is poorly understood. In this study, we created a spatial dat
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Thomas P. Van Bockel, Diann Prosser, Gianluca Franceschini, Chandra Biradar, William Wint, Tim Robinson, Marius Gilbert