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High elevation ecosystem responses to atmospheric deposition of nitrogen in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA
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Authors
Jill Baron, K. R. Nydick, H.M. Rueth, B. M. LaFrancois, A.P. Wolfe
Inducible defenses in food webs: Chapter 3.4
This chapter reviews the predicted effects of induced defenses on trophic structure and two aspects of stability, “local” stability and persistence, as well as presenting novel results on a third, resilience. Food webs are structures of populations in a given location organized according to their predator–prey interactions. Interaction strengths and, therefore, prey defenses are generally recogniz
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Matthijs Vos, Bob W. Kooi, Donald L. DeAngelis, Wolf M. Mooij
Initial training of cranes for an airship migration
We describe the first year of our efforts to train cranes to accept the unnatural stimuli associated with being transported south in cages suspended beneath an airship. All 4 experimental cranes readily acclimated to entering a suspended cage and were trained to accept being jostled while in the cage, even when the cage was transported in the back of a pickup truck. With minor changes, the train
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D. H. Ellis, Glenn H. Olsen, J. Kwitowski
Introduction to the handbook
In September of 1802, Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827) used a capture– recapture type of approach to estimate the size of the human population of France (Cochran 1978; Stigler 1986). At that time, live births were recorded for all of France on an annual basis. In the year prior to September 1802, Laplace estimated the number of such births to be approximately X = 1,000,000. These newly born indivi
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Bryan F.J. Manly, Trent L. McDonald, Steven C. Amstrup
Lake Michigan wetlands: classification, concerns, and management opportunities
The wetlands that border Lake Michigan are an extremely important component of the lake ecosystem. In this paper, I will review the status of wetland classifications used for Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes, as well as the major management concerns and opportunities presented by Lake Michigan wetlands.
Authors
Douglas A. Wilcox
Landscape level reforestation priorities for forest breeding landbirds in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley
Thousands of ha of cleared wetlands are being reforested annually in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV). Despite the expansive and long-term impacts of reforestation on the biological communities of the MAV, there is generally a lack of landscape level planning in its implementation. To address this deficiency we used raster-based digital data to assess the value of forest restoration to migr
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D.J. Twedt, W.B. Uihlein
Late Quaternary history of the Atacama Desert
Of the major subtropical deserts found in the Southern Hemisphere, the Atacama Desert is the driest. Throughout the Quaternary, the most pervasive climatic influence on the desert has been millennial-scale changes in the frequency and seasonality of the scant rainfall, and associated shifts in plant and animal distributions with elevation along the eastern margin of the desert. Over the past six y
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Claudio Latorre, Julio L. Betancourt, Jason A. Rech, Jay Quade, Camille Holmgren, Christa Placzek, Antonio Maldonado, Mathias Vuille, Kate A. Rylander
Lesser scaup Aythya affinis
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Jane E. Austin, Christine M. Custer, Alan D. Afton
Linear models: permutation methods
Permutation tests (see Permutation Based Inference) for the linear model have applications in behavioral studies when traditional parametric assumptions about the error term in a linear model are not tenable. Improved validity of Type I error rates can be achieved with properly constructed permutation tests. Perhaps more importantly, increased statistical power, improved robustness to effects of
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B.S. Cade
Management of ticks and tick-borne diseases
The mainstays of tick management and protection from tick-borne diseases have traditionally been personal precautions and the application of acaricides. These techniques maintain their value, and current innovations hold considerable promise for future improvement in effective targeting of materials for tick control. Furthermore, an explosion of research in the past few decades has resulted in t
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H. S. Ginsberg, K.C. Stafford
Managing inland wetlands for wildlife
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Authors
M.K. Laubhan, S.L. King, L.H. Fredrickson