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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"area-sensitive"”.
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Relations between forest and prairie fragmentation and depredation of artificial nests in Missouri
… existing flora and fauna within the remaining areas. Principles derived from island biogeography offer possibilities for conserving species in fragmented habitats. MacArthur and Wilson (1967) proposed that the number of species on an island is a balance between immigration and extinction rates; …
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Considerations for Conservation of Shrubland Birds in Early Successional Forest Habitat
… Our first objective was to determine how patch area, patch shape, and extent of forest cover in the surrounding landscape affect shrubland bird species’ occupancy of early-successional forest habitat patches and, for species that were area-sensitive, we sought to identify minimum area …
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The effect of urbanization on the stopover ecology of neotropical migrant songbirds
… forest patches in the Chicago, IL metropolitan area in 2012 and 2013. The forest patch selection was designed to test the effects of patch size, distance from the Lake Michigan shoreline and degree of urbanization. I conducted exploratory analysis to search for potential relationships. …
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Grassland and Woodland Bird Occurrence and Habitat Selection in the Prairie-Forest Transition Zone of Minnesota
… how selected grassland obligate birds and area sensitive woodland birds are associated with habitat variables that were measured on multiple spatial scales (landscape, patch, and local scales), and to 3) create spatially explicit models using a geographic information system for individual …
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High-throughput plasma nanomanufacturing and its applications
… involve nanoscale pre-patterning, surface-area-sensitive assembly processes or extreme fabrication conditions; therefore, none of them meets the requirements of scalable and translational nanomanufacturing processes in one or more aspects, and thus they all lack industry compatibility. The …
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Avian Occurrence in Woodlands and Grasslands on Public Areas Throughout Eastern South Dakota
… and 425 planted) woodland patches on 307 public areas in eastern South Dakota using belt transects. Woodlands were surveyed once during either the 1997 or 1998 breeding season. Woodlands were surveyed completely with the exception of extremely large (> 7 5 ha) tracts ( < 1 % of the sample). A …