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Assessing climate change effects on mountain ecosystems using integrated models: A case study

Mountain systems are characterized by strong environmental gradients, rugged topography and extreme spatial heterogeneity in ecosystem structure and composition. Consequently, most mountainous areas have relatively high rates of endemism and biodiversity, and function as species refugia in many areas of the world. Mountains have long been recognized as critical entities in regional climatic and hy
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Daniel B. Fagre, Steven W. Running, Robert E. Keane, David L. Peterson

Availability of SQGs to estimate effects of sediment-associated contaminants in laboratory toxicity tests or in benthic community assessments

No abstract available.
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C.G. Ingersoll, S.M. Bay, J.L. Crane, L.J. Field, T. H. Gries, J. L. Hyland, E.R. Long, D.D. MacDonald, T.P. O'Connor

Batrachoseps pacificus (Cope, 1865), Channel Islands Slender Salamander

No abstract available at this time
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Robert W. Hansen, David B. Wake, Gary M. Fellers

Bottomland hardwood establishment and avian colonization of reforested sites in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley

Reforestation of bottomland hardwood sites in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley has markedly increased in recent years, primarily due to financial incentive programs such as the Wetland Reserve Program, Partners for Wildlife Program, and state and private conservation programs. An avian conservation plan for the Mississippi Alluvial Valley proposes returning a substantial area of cropland to forest
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R.R. Wilson, D.J. Twedt

Bottomland hardwood restoration in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley: Looking past the trees to see the forest

Planned restoration of bottomland hardwoods is important to adequately address negative consequences resulting from the severe loss and fragmentation of forested wetlands in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Reforestation efforts have been promoted through government initiatives of state and federal agencies (e.g. Wetland Reserve Program) and private conservation groups. To clarify discussions of
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R.R. Wilson, J.M. Oliver, D.J. Twedt, W.B. Uihlein

Bufo alvarius Girard, 1859: Colorado River toad

No abstract available.
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M.J. Fouquette, C.W. Painter, P. Nanjappa

Bufo boreas Baird and Girard, 1852(b): western toad

No abstract available.
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E. Muths, P. Nanjappa

Bufo exsul (Myers, 1942): Black toad

No abstract available.
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Gary M. Fellers

California giant salamander, Dicamptodon ensatus Eschscholtz

No abstract available at this time
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Gary M. Fellers, Shawn R. Kuchta

Capture-recapture methods in practice

No abstract available.
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Bryan F.J. Manly, Steven C. Amstrup, Trent L. McDonald