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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Multi-scale Studies"”.
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Multi-scale studies of aging, rejuvenation, and extrinsic self-healing in bituminous materials
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Multi-Scale Studies to Develop a Holistic Understanding of Solid Fuel Combustion at Residential Scale
… energy poverty by 2030.</p><p>Research on multiple fronts seeks to provide cleaner cooking energy by engineering either the cooking systems or the fuel. Developing more efficient solid fuel stoves, called improved cookstoves (ICS), has received the highest attention but the low adoption and …
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Multi-scale Studies of Microbial Mats and Biocrusts: Integrating Remote Sensing with Field Investigations in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys
… spectral detectability of patchy biocrusts using multispectral satellite imagery to examine the environments in which biocrusts occur, finding that spectral unmixing of satellite imagery can successfully detect the presence of biocrust and its association with seasonal snow patches. As a direct …
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Ecological scale and species-habitat modeling: studies on the Northern flying squirrel.
Although scale is consistently identified as the central problem in ecology, empirical examinations of its importance in ecological research are rare and fundamental concepts remain either largely misunderstood or incorrectly applied. Due to the mobile and wide-ranging nature of wildlife …
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Canopy Characteristics Affecting Avian Reproductive Success: The Golden-cheeked Warbler
… the surrounding environment at different spatial scales. Thus, multi-scale studies on bird abundance and reproductive success is necessary for evaluating the effects of habitat alterations. The golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia) is a Neotropical migrant songbird that breeds exclusively …
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EFFECTS OF SCALE AND HABITAT MANAGEMENT ON GRASSLAND BIRD RESPONSE IN CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM FIELDS IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS
… past several decades. Grassland birds respond to multiple scales which encompass a spectrum of habitat variables, and the habitat scale of importance may depend on the response of interest. For practitioners, having knowledge of the effect of scale is useful because conservation efforts can be …