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Amphibians of the Neotropical Realm
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F. Bolaños, F. Castro, C. Cortez, I. De la Riva, T. Grant, B. Hedges, R. Heyer, R. Ibañez, E. La Marca, E. Lavilla, D. Leite Silvano, S. Lotters, G. Parra Olea, S. Reichle, R. Reynolds, L. Rodriguez, G. Santos Barrera, N. Scott, C. Ubeda, A. Veloso, M. Wilkinson, B. Young
Anti-tick biological control agents: assessment and future perspectives
Widespread and increasing resistance to most available acaracides threatens both global livestock industries and public health. This necessitates better understanding of ticks and the diseases they transmit in the development of new control strategies. Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control is written by an international collection of experts and covers in-depth information on aspects of the biology
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M. Samish, H. S. Ginsberg, I. Glazer
Auditory monitoring of anuran populations: Chapter 16
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Michael E Dorcas, Steven J. Price, Susan C. Walls, William J. Barichivich
Behavior comparisons for whooping cranes raised by costumed caregivers and trained for an ultralight-led migration
The successful reintroduction program being run by the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership using whooping cranes (Grus americana) trained to fly behind ultralight aircraft depends on a supply of these trained crane colts each year. The crane colts are hatched from eggs contributed by the various partners and trained to follow costume clad humans and ultralight aircraft at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Re
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Glenn H. Olsen
Biological and societal dimensions of lead poisoning in birds in the USA
The ingestion of spent lead shot was known to cause mortality in wild waterfowl in the US a century before the implementation of nontoxic shot regulations began in 1972. The biological foundation for this transition was strongly supported by both field observations and structured scientific investigations. Despite the overwhelming evidence, various societal factors forestalled the full transition
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Milton Friend, J. Christian Franson, William L. Anderson
Bird response to silviculture induced change in forest structure within bottomland hardwood forests
Silvicultural treatments prescribed to encourage development of desired stand structure (i.e., wildlife-forestry) should result in increased abundance of many bird species of management concern, especially species using dense understory habitat. Desired forest conditions within bottomland vary among sites, but average 60-70% overstory canopy that is heterogeneously distributed with >5 dominant tr
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D.J. Twedt, S.G. Somershoe
Boulder Creek: A stream ecosystem in an urban landscape
The Boulder Creek Watershed, within the Front Range region of Colorado, is typical of many western watersheds because it is composed of a high-gradient upper reach mostly fed by snowmelt, a substantial change in gradient at the range front, and an urban corridor within the lower gradient section. A stream ecosystem within an urban landscape not only can provide water for municipal, industrial, and
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Philip L. Verplanck, Sheila F. Murphy, Peter W. Birkeland, Pitlick, Larry B. Barber, Travis S. Schmidt
Coordinating across scales: Building a regional marsh bird monitoring program from national and state Initiatives
Salt marsh breeding bird populations (rails, bitterns, sparrows, etc.) in eastern North America are high conservation priorities in need of site specific and regional monitoring designed to detect population changes over time. The present status and trends of these species are unknown but anecdotal evidence of declines in many of the species has raised conservation concerns. Most of these specie
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G.W. Shriver, J.R. Sauer
Design for a region-wide adaptive search for the ivorybilled woodpecker with the objective of estimating occupancy and related parameters
We describe a survey design and field protocol for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) search effort that will: (1) allow estimation of occupancy, use, and detection probability for habitats at two spatial scales within the bird?s former range, (2) assess relationships between occupancy, use, and habitat characteristics at those scales, (3) eventually allow the development of a p
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R.J. Cooper, Rua S. Mordecai, B.G. Mattsson, M.J. Conroy, K. Pacifici, J.T. Peterson, C. T. Moore
Diplotriaena, Serratospiculum, and Serratospiculoides
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Mauritz C. Sterner, Rebecca A. Cole