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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Agricultural intensity"”.
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Nestling Diet, Quality, and Post-fledging Survival: Comparing Two Species of Aerial Insectivores in a Gradient of Agricultural Intensity in Saskatchewan, Canada
… of prey abundance and quality caused by agricultural intensification have been implicated in their decline. The quality of nestling nutrition mediated by parental selection of insect prey types (aquatic versus terrestrial) can be an important determinant of offspring health and …
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Empirical Relationships between Water Quality and Agricultural Land Use in Rural Maine
… between water quality and catchment land use. Agricultural land use is a large driver of excess nutrient export to lakes, including in Maine, and can result in toxic cyanobacterial blooms, decreased water clarity, and fish kills. I developed a statistical relationship to quantitatively link …
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A Physiological Assessment of Wetland Habitats for Spring-migrating Ducks in the Agricultural Landscapes of the Southern Prairie Pothole Region
… the early 1900s. The legacy of ever-increasing agricultural intensity in the southern portions of the PPR, including eastern South Dakota, has left many wetland ecosystems in a matrix of intensive agricultural production. With little surrounding nesting cover, these wetlands are thought to have …
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Regional summer climate variability and change over North America in the 20th Century
… GHG concentrations but by rapid and extensive agricultural LULC changes. These land use changes can be broken into three components: expansion of agriculture, expansion of irrigated cropland, and agricultural intensification in the form of linear productivity gains for corn and soybean. The …
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Behavioral Reconstruction of the Kerma Era Nubians
… increase in workload with an increase in agricultural intensity/social complexity, as both the urban and rural populations had much more intensive agriculture and were more socially complex than the subsistence based population. This increase in workload with the advent of agriculture …
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Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Land Use on Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) Presence and Health in Central Saskatchewan
… sites near Saskatoon, SK along a gradient of agricultural intensity with two grassland sites (Allan and St. Denis) and three cropland sites (Burr, Colonsay, and Humboldt). I collected data on water quality including nutrients and pesticides, wetland habitat, and surrounding land use and used …