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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"cougars"”.
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The Economic Impacts of Cougars in Western Washington
… for changes in policy regarding management of cougars, as well as land use management.
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Distribution and Abundance of American Martens and Cougars in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming
American martens (Martes americana) and cougars (Puma concolor) are 2 carnivores that have become reestablished in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. I predicted current distributions and estimated population sizes for both species in the Black Hills. Using geographical information system …
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Population Demographics of Cougars in the Black Hills: Survival, Dispersal, Morphometry, Genetic Structure, and Associated Interactions with Density Dependence
… is the remnant apex predator of South Dakota. Cougars were extirpated from the majority of the Dakotas by the early 1900s, and severely reduced or extirpated from the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming during this same time. Many factors led to the demise of cougars throughout North …
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Lead exposure in large carnivores in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem
… gut piles as a food source while others, such as cougars (Puma concolor), avoid areas with high levels of human hunting pressure. I investigated whether large carnivores in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem were exposed to lead, and if so, if ammunition ingested from hunter-harvested gut piles was …
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Lead exposure in large carnivores in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem
… gut piles as a food source while others, such as cougars (Puma concolor), avoid areas with high levels of human hunting pressure. I investigated whether large carnivores in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem were exposed to lead, and if so, if ammunition ingested from hunter-harvested gut piles was …
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Tracking the Cougar: Performing the Over-Thirty-Five Single Woman In Everyday Life and Media Representations
… who dated younger men began to be known as cougars and concomitantly, representations of cougars began to appear in various media. In this thesis I ask how women are discursively and socially constituted as cougars and how our choices are thereby limited. Given that I arrive at this topic …
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Short-term effects of wildfire on Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep habitat ecology
… biomass and spatial models of predation risk by cougars (Puma concolor), the main predator of Sierra bighorn. In the first year post-wildfire, Sierra bighorn increased selection for new growth herbaceous biomass in response to the reduced biomass caused by wildfire. While wildfire initially …
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Short-term effects of wildfire on Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep habitat ecology
… biomass and spatial models of predation risk by cougars (Puma concolor), the main predator of Sierra bighorn. In the first year post-wildfire, Sierra bighorn increased selection for new growth herbaceous biomass in response to the reduced biomass caused by wildfire. While wildfire initially …
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FIV-FCA and FIV-PCO Reverse Transcriptases: Expression, Purification and Activity Comparison
… virus from domestic cats (FIV-Fca) and cougars (FIV-Pco) are genetically related but they have significantly different evolutionary rates and virulence in their natural hosts. Additionally, recombination in FIV infested cats is common but there is no evidence for recombination in endemic …
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FIV-FCA and FIV-PCO Reverse Transcriptases: Expression, Purification and Activity Comparison
… virus from domestic cats (FIV-Fca) and cougars (FIV-Pco) are genetically related but they have significantly different evolutionary rates and virulence in their natural hosts. Additionally, recombination in FIV infested cats is common but there is no evidence for recombination in endemic …
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CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY OF DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP LAMBS IN THE FRA CRISTOBAL MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO, USA
… at sites where adults and lambs were killed by cougars and paired control sites, and derived habitat characteristics at predation sites, relocation sites representing used areas, and random sites representing available areas. Visibility was lower at predation than control sites, while slope, …
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CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY OF DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP LAMBS IN THE FRA CRISTOBAL MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO, USA
… at sites where adults and lambs were killed by cougars and paired control sites, and derived habitat characteristics at predation sites, relocation sites representing used areas, and random sites representing available areas. Visibility was lower at predation than control sites, while slope, …