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Landscape Genetics of the Marbled Salamander (Ambystoma Opacum) at Mammoth Cave National Park
… opacum) in highly connected forested habitat at Mammoth Cave National Park. This investigation of gene flow among ponds within a mostly continuous landscape provides data that can be compared with patterns observed in more fragmented landscapes. These comparisons can provide a means of …
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Internet GIS as a Historic Place-Making Tool for Mammoth Cave National Park
… and discovery of the past communities of the Mammoth Cave Park area. The emergence of Internet Web 2.0 design along with distributed GIS services allows for anyone to interact with and add to the information found on central Internet sites. Historical geography often relies upon public …
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Field Test of a Calcite Dissolution Rate Law: Fort’s Funnel Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park
… experiment in Buffalo Creek within Fort’s Funnel Cave, which lies within a pristine, forested catchment of Mammoth Cave National Park. Continuous water chemistry sampling over the same period allowed a time-integrated prediction of the dissolution based on the Plummer et al (1978) expression. …
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An Isotopic Examination of Cave, Spring and Epigean Trophic Structures in Mammoth Cave National Park
<p>AN ISOTOPIC EXAMINATION OF CAVE, SPRING AND EPIGEAN TROPHIC STRUCTURES IN MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK</p> <p>Name: Zacchaeus Greg Compson Date: October 15, 2004 Pages: 56</p> <p>Directed by: Philip Lienesch, Doug McElroy, Michael Stokes and Richard Bowker</p> <p>Department of Biology Western …
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Conservation Studies of Insect Cave Faunas in Mammoth Cave National Park and Ghana, West Africa
… of a long term ecological monitoring effort at Mammoth Cave National Park, a blind cave beetle, Neaphaenops tellkampfi, was collected and data on populations trends gathered from September 2005 through December 2006 in Great Onyx Cave. The sex and age of each individual in each of 15 sites were …
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Eastern Deciduous Forest Phenology and Vegetative Vigor Trends From 2000 to 2013, Mammoth Cave National Park, KY
… the photosynthetic activity of vegetation at Mammoth Cave National Park (MACA) is tracked from 2000 to 2013. Three methods were employed to examine the changes and climate influences in vegetation over the study period: 1) aggregating the NDVI of the Park by year and by summer months (June, …
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Factors Affecting Distribution and Abundance of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in Autumnal Wetlands in Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, USA
… were collected from ten autumnal wetlands at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, U.S.A., in an effort to elucidate the environmental variables (EV's) that affected both between- and within-pond macroinvertebrate distribution and abundance. Canonical correspondence analyses performed with …
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Flow Reversal Events Increase the Abundance of Nontroglobitic Fish in the Subterranean Rivers of Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
Mammoth Cave National Park (MCNP) is home to the longest cave system in the World and is dissected by the Green River, one of the most speciose watersheds on the continent. Cave springs create a direct aquatic link between subterranean waterways and the Green River. The history of these …
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Assessing the effects of prescribed fire on foraging bats at Mammoth Cave National Park after the arrival of White-nose Syndrome
… is unclear in relation to prescribed fire. Mammoth Cave National Park (MACA) has employed a prescribed fire regime since 2002 and WNS was detected on MACA in 2013. Bat activity was monitored across burned and unburned sites at MACA before (2010-2012) and after the detection of WNS …
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Analysis of Mammoth Cave Pre-Park Communities
Before the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park, this area was home to numerous communities, each with a sense of identity. To prepare for the creation of the National Park, all residents living within these communities were relocated, and many of these communities were lost to the passage of …
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Transport of the Herbicide Atrazine on Suspended Sediments During a Spring Storm Event in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
… collected from a well at the Hawkins River in Mammoth Cave National Park during a spring storm and tested for atrazine. Atrazine was found in concentrations exceeding 3 |ig/l in all of the sediment samples collected. Concentrations of atrazine in the cave stream's water were low, ranging from …
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Local impacts of White-nose Syndrome on the foraging ecology of insectivorous bats
… wild-caught using an illuminated substrate at Mammoth Cave National Park in June – July 2015. No energetic differences were detected for size class or wing condition of T. ni. Additionally, no differences were detected in the caloric yields of the species analyzed, except between Ma. americanum …
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Atrazine Contamination and Suspended Sediment Transport within Logsdon River, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
… by sediment-sorbed pesticides is important for cave conservation efforts in agricultural landscapes. Flow rate, water quality parameters and suspended sediment concentrations were measured in Logsdon River, a ~10km karst conduit within the Turnhole Spring Groundwater Basin of Mammoth Cave …
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Density and Age Distributions of Trees in Upland and Lowland Oldfields 60 Years After Abandonment: The Role of Dispersal
… and lowland oldfields, I conducted research at Mammoth Cave National Park. I studied three species, the seeds of which are dispersed by three different modes: Juniperus virginiana, a predominantly bird-dispersed species; Acer rubrum, a predominantly winddispersed species; and Fagus grandifolia, …
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Mathematical Modeling of Convective Heat Transfer in Mammoth Cave
… ago, changes were made to the entrances of Mammoth Cave and its passages. Today the Historic Entrance to Mammoth Cave is enlarged and the passage just beyond the entrance known as Houchins' Narrows has been cleared of rubble and filled with sediments. These enlargements have resulted in an …
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Teacher Perceptions of the Impacts of Environmental Education on the Teaching Process and on Student Learning
… and Recreation Western Kentucky University The Mammoth Cave National Park Environmental Education Partnership (EEP) has worked with schools and teachers to provide the students with curriculum-based environmental education programs on a regular basis throughout the school year. Because of this …
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The Relationship Between Meteorological Patterns and Rural Ground Ozone Concentration
… ground O3 day. Hourly ground O3 data for Mammoth Cave National Park from the years, 1998 through 2003 were analyzed. Once analyzed, a combination of meteorological variables is used in a simple linear regression to create the coefficients for empirical predictive model based on 1998-2000 …
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Effects of Management and Population Size on Genetic Diversity of Eggert's Sunflower (HELIANTHUS EGGERTII; ASTERACEAE)
… diversity. Genetic diversity is high at both Mammoth Cave National Park (.5246) and Arnold Engineering and Development Center(.4555). The high genetic diversity observed suggests that while clones may exist in a population, seedling establishment is actively putting new genetically diverse …
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Hydrologic and Geochemical Cycling within Karst Versus Non-Karst Basins within the Interior Low Plateau Province of South-Central Kentucky
… for a period of one year for two basins within Mammoth Cave National Park. Twelve percent carbonate rocks underlie one basin, while the other consists of 48 percent carbonate rocks. The carbonate rock exposures within both basins exhibit karstification. The hydrologic and geochemical differences …
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Dye Tracing to Delineate Drainage Basins and Determine Groundwater Sensitivity, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky; with Special Reference to Potential Groundwater Contamination from Spills Along Interstate I-65
<p>The Mammoth Cave System of south central Kentucky encompasses more than 560 km of surveyed cave passages. The largest groundwater basin (244 km2) found within this cave system emerges from the Turnhole Bend Spring on the Green River. During high flow conditions, water from this groundwater basin …
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