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A spatially explicit approach for evaluating relationships among coastal cutthroat trout, habitat, and disturbance in small Oregon streams
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R. E. Gresswell, C.E. Torgersen, D.S. Bateman, T.J. Guy, S.R. Hendricks, J. E. B. Wofford
A unified strategy for monitoring changes in abundance of birds associated with North American tidal marshes
An effective approach to species conservation involves efforts to prevent species from becoming threatened with extinction before they become listed as endangered. Standardized monitoring efforts provide the data necessary to estimate population trajectories of many species so that management agencies can identify declining species before they reach the point of endangerment. Species that occur
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C.J. Conway, Sam Droege
Adaptive harvest management of North American waterfowl populations - recent successes and future prospects
The history of North American waterfowl harvest management has been characterized by attempts to use population monitoring data to make informed harvest management decisions. Early attempts can be characterized as intuitive decision processes, and later efforts were guided increasingly by population models and associated predictions. In 1995, a formal adaptive management process was implemented,
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J. D. Nichols, M.C. Runge, F.A. Johnson, B.K. Williams
Applied historical ecology: Using the past to manage for the future
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Thomas W. Swetnam, Craig D. Allen, Julio L. Betancourt
Atlantic Seaduck Project
Atlantic Seaduck Project is being conducted to learn more about the breeding and moulting areas of seaducks in northern Canada and more about their feeding ecology on wintering areas, especially Chesapeake Bay. Satellite telemetry is being used to track surf scoters wintering in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland and black scoters on migrational staging areas in New Brunswick, Canada to breeding and moulti
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M. C. Perry
Attitudes and perceptions about prairie dogs
We sometimes get the impression that all ranchers and farmers of the western United States hate prairie dogs, and that people everywhere else love them. This generality contains elements of truth, but better documentation of attitudes and perceptions is paramount for good conservation. In this chapter we examine attitudes and perceptions about prairie dogs, and how state and federal actions affect
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Berton Lee Lamb, Richard P. Reading, William F. Andelt
Characterization of breeding habitats for black and surf scoters in the eastern boreal forest and subarctic regions of Canada
We analyzed characteristics of wetland habitats used by breeding black scoters (Melanitta nigra) and surf scoters (M. perspicillata) in the eastern boreal forest and subarctic regions of Canada based on satellite telemetry data collected in the spring and summer. During 2002 and 2004, nine black scoters (four males, five females) were tracked to breeding areas in Quebec, Manitoba, and Northwest T
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M. C. Perry, D.M. Kidwell, A.M. Wells, E.J.R. Lohnes, P.C. Osenton, S.H. Altmann
Climate and land use interactions with vegetation change and disturbance processes in mountain ecosystems of the Southwestern USA
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Craig D. Allen
Coastal groundwater/surface-water interactions: a Great Lakes case study
Key similarities exist between marine and Great Lakes coastal environments. Water and nutrient fluxes across lakebeds in the Great Lakes are influenced by seiche and wind set-up and set-down, analogous to tidal influence in marine settings. Groundwater/surface-water interactions also commonly involve a saline-fresh water interface, although in the Great-Lakes cases, it is groundwater that is commo
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Brian P. Neff, Sheridan K. Haack, Donald O. Rosenberry, Jacqueline F. Savino, Scott C. Lundstrom
Coastal wetland vulnerability to relative sea-level rise: wetland elevation trends and process controls
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Donald R. Cahoon, P.F. Hensel, Terri Spencer, D.J. Reed, K.L. McKee, N. Saintilan
Conservation of prairie dogs in areas with plague
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J.F. Cully, Dean E. Biggins, D.B. Seery
Development of a banding database for North Pacific albatross: Implications for future data collection
The effects of fishery practices on black-footed (Phoebastria nigripes) and Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) continue to be a source of contention and uncertainty. Some of this uncertainty is a result of a lack of estimates of albatross demographic parameters such as survival. To begin to address these informational needs, a database of albatross banding and encounter records was const
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P.F. Doherty, W. L. Kendall, S. Sillett, M. Gustafson, B. Flint, M. Naughton, C.S. Robbins, P. Pyle