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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"glades"”.
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A Vegetative Analysis of Hercules Glades Wilderness
Cedar glades of Southwest Missouri were studied quantitatively. The Bray-Curtis ordination technique of indirect gradient analysis was applied to the sample plot data in an attempt to determine whether sites located on varying percent slope, exposure, aspect, or stage of successful would group …
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Visibility in Hercules Glades Wilderness, Taney County, Missouri: a Study of Baseline Conditions
… to collect baseline visibility data in Hercules Glades Wilderness in Taney County, Missouri. With the establishment of baseline conditions, future monitoring activities can use these data as the beginning standard. The recommendation was that monitoring should be continued for a ten year baseline …
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Effects of Burning and Cutting on Plant Diversity on Ozark Cedar Glades in Stone and Taney County, Missouri
… changes in plant diversity in Missouri Ozark glades where eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) was cut with the use of a chainsaw, but not removed, and the glade was subsequently burned. Glades in Missouri are rocky openings within forested habitats characterized by thin nutrient-poor …
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Vegetation and Soil Patterns at a Mountain Wetland Ecotone
… patterns present within the Cranberry Glades, a bog wetland complex located in the mountains of West Virginia. The Cranberry Glades are comprised of four open bog meadows, which provide unique habitat to several rare and endangered plant species. However, these meadows are filling in …
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Regional Rarity: Consequences of Dispersal Limitation and Strategies for Reintroduction
… establishment of plant species in restored xeric glades in the Missouri Ozarks: USA). First, I used a trait analysis of species in restored glades to determine whether traits related to niche breadth, persistence, or dispersal ability are related to species distributions. The results from this …
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A Reexamination of the Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris collaris) in Arkansas
… collaris</em>) are habitat specialists on glades. Both <em>C. c. collaris</em> and glade habitats are rare and of special concern in the state of Arkansas. Many glade populations have already been extirpated in the Ozarks of Arkansas and Missouri. Increasing knowledge of the distribution, …
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Incomplete concerted evolution in the non-hybrid diploid Clematic fremontii S. Watston (Rananculaceae)
… that occurs in isolated populations in the cedar glades of Missouri and the mixed-grass prairies of Kansas and Nebraska. Based on geographical isolation and morphological differences, this species was formerly subdivided into two varieties, the autonymic prairie variety and the glade variety, C. …
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Lonely Monsters
… an economic divide between the Estates and the Glades makes for a ripe, troublesome environment for a foul modern-day aristocrat who masquerades as a grandiose and romantic prince. The story's protagonist, Fisher Franklin, loses two key relationships—as well as her sound mind—in the wake of the …
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Breeding System, Heterozygosity, and Seed Germination in a Population of Missouri Bladder-Pod, Lesquerella Filiformis Rollins
… species, is a rare endemic of limestone glades in southwest Missouri. Although highly restricted in its range, populations of L. filiformis are highly polymorphic and significant genetic differentiation occurs among them (Graham 1994). To better understand the presence of such high levels …
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Inbreeding Depression in the Partially Selfing Perennial, Ruellia Humilis
… herb found commonly in dry prairies and glades within the highly fragmented tallgrass prairie ecosystem. This species is characterized by showy chasmogamous flowers that promote outcrossing via hawkmoths and automatically self-fertilizing cleistogamous flowers which have ensured a long …
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The reproductive ecology of Minuartia patula Michx. Mattf. (Caryophyllaceae)
… is a winter annual found in barrens, glades, rocky outcrops, and dolomite prairies of the eastern and central United States. This species is rare in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio; and vulnerable in Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia. Though research on environmental pollution, seed …
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A stable isotope and macro-charcoal sediment record spanning the Pleistocene-Holocene transition from Maple Pond in the southern Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA
… Spring (aka Hack) Pond, Twin Pond and Cranberry Glades), supporting the interpretation that sinkhole ponds and wetlands throughout the Shenandoah Valley underwent similar environmental evolutions across major Late Quaternary climatic transitions.
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Ecology, history, management and conservation of the multipurpose Forest of Wyre
… this activity by promoting small randomly spaced glades throughout the forest which are cut on a more natural rotation cycle. Deer numbers should be governed according to the extent of damage they exert on the forest vegetation. Both plantation and natural forest could be managed on a selective …
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Metapopulations and metacommunities in dry forest openings in southern Illinois
… (commonly called barrens, hill prairies, or glades) are habitats found on ridgetops which are characterized by having thin or nutrient-poor soil, high sunlight exposure, and relatively low soil moisture when compared to nearby forest habitats. Forest openings commonly contain plant species …
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Geospatial and field-based techniques for physical geography and environmental change
… patterns at the rare and imperiled Cranberry Glades Botanical Area, a high-elevation peatland in the Allegheny highlands of West Virginia. We used Lidar and Geomorphon analysis to reconstruct shifting patterns of surface hydrology associated with Beaver ponds and dams over the past three …