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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Wildlife Ecology"”.
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Profiling Bacterial Community Dynamics For Wildlife Ecology and Geological Mineral Exploration
… as a contributing factor to the survival of wildlife populations. In the second study I explore how microbial genetic-based methods have the potential to complement current geophysical and geochemical approaches to mineral exploration. Mineral-associated metals are hypothesized to dissociate …
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Interactions among invading ticks, wildlife, and zoonotic pathogens
… D.)--Michigan State University. Fisheries and Wildlife - Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior, 2010
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THE BROWN BEAR GUT MICROBIOME: A NOVEL TOOL FOR CONSERVATION & MANAGEMENT
… GMBs play in host health, the role of GMBs in wildlife ecology and conservation has yet to be realized fully. Here, I use brown bears (<em>Ursus arctos</em>) as an ecological model to investigate (1) how both extrinsic and intrinsic factors influence GMB community membership and structure; and …
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The Politics of Predation: Exploring the Rise of Coyotes in North American Cities
… geographies, animal studies, urban geography and wildlife ecology - to explore how humans respond to coyotes and how these adapters are navigating urban regions with special attention to the City of Chicago. As a component of their behaviour plasticity, coyotes can adapt to a wide range of …
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A dynamic white-tailed deer population simulator and lessons from its use
… deer populations and for educating students on wildlife ecology and management. The concept that achieving a constant sex ratio can be used to stabilize a population was explored. The results indicate that a population will stabilize with any sex ratio when all management activities are oriented …
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Development of an ontology of animals in context within the OBO Foundry framework from a SNOMED-CT extension and subset
… involved in disciplines as diverse as wildlife ecology and dairy science. The Animals in Context Ontology (ACO) was created from an extension and subset of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine — Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT). The principles of the Open Biological and Biomedical …
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Elk (Cervus elaphus) response to anthropogenic disturbance: hunting, land use, and climate change
… underlying the distribution and abundance of wildlife species remains a central question of wildlife ecology and has become increasingly complex as humans continue to alter landscape conditions. During the past 50 years, elk in eastern Washington have expanded their year-long ranges into lower …
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Spatial Ecology of a Vulnerable Species: Home Range Dynamics, Resource Use, and Genetic Differentiation of Eastern Spotted Skunks in Central Appalachia
… risk of predation. A key aspect in the study of wildlife ecology is understanding how a species evaluates its surroundings and selects habitat that offers advantages to survival and reproductive success. In theory, an individual should select habitat that offers adequate resources to meet its …
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The Sleepless Forest Observers : Ecologists are using remote observation to advance their understanding of environments. Are they losing something in the process?
… an ecologist at OSU who studies quantitative wildlife ecology, conservation, and environmental genetics at the Andrews. A review article published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution found that the number of scientific publications with the keyword “eDNA” tripled from 2015 to 2018, the …
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Habitat selection and spatial personalities of Belizean white-tailed deer
Understanding movement ecology – broadly defined as the study of how environmental conditions shape animal movement – can provide inference into the environmental traits required to sustain viable wildlife populations. Therefore, movement models have emerged as important tools for wildlife …
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The ecology of translocated greater sage-grouse in Strawberry Valley, Utah
… No. 3 Equivalence testing in the field of wildlife ecology has been underutilized. Mistakenly, many researchers have concluded that two groups are the same based on failure to reject a null hypothesis of no difference. We used equivalence testing to provide preliminary evidence that …
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Habitat Selection and Resource Use by Bighorn Sheep Following Translocation
… of wild sheep, elk, deer, goats, and other wildlife. One of the most effective restoration tools to emerge from this era was translocation of individuals by physically moving them from healthy source populations to formerly occupied habitats. This process became an essential management tool, …
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Landscape genetics and CWD in white-tailed deer
… populations contributes to our understanding of wildlife ecology. By quantifying genetic structure across the landscape we have identified populations with high and low admixture and discovered gender specific barriers to deer movement that may contribute to CWD spread via dispersal. We found …
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Spatial Patterns and Population Performance of Mule Deer: Responses to Water Provisioning in Mojave National Preserve, California
… of water is expected to benefit populations of wildlife. Development of water sources in arid regions of the western United States has been a common practice used by wildlife and range managers in both state and federal agencies since the early 20th century (Broyles 1995, Rosenstock et al. 2001, …
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Simulation of protected area and forestry cutblock design in the boreal plain ecoregion
Spatial and statistical analyses are becoming more commonplace in planning for conservation and land-use programs. I used specific spatial and statistical analyses to examine their potential for answering questions posed by stakeholders in the boreal plain ecoregion regarding the strategic …
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Characteristics Of Rest Sites Used By Raccoons (procyon Lotor) In Richmond, Kentucky
<p>The raccoon (<em>Procyon lotor</em>) is one of many species that have adapted to living in urban/suburban environments. In this study, radio-tagged raccoons within the city limits of Richmond, KY, were monitored to locate rest sites. A rest site is defined as any site occupied by a raccoon …