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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"landscape characteristics"”.
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The Relationship Between Wildlife Biodiversity and Landscape Characteristics in Virginia
… relationship between wildlife biodiversity and landscape characteristics in Virginia. The goal is to produce predictive models of biodiversity within the Commonwealth using environmental characteristics, including fragmentation metrics at the class- and landscape-levels, as well as other …
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Characterization of dissolved fluvial carbon from landscape characteristics across High Arctic headwater streams
… streams in order to understand the role of landscape characteristics on carbon transfer from High Arctic watersheds to the Arctic Ocean. Water chemistry data were obtained from 146 streams across four regions on Axel Heiberg Island, NU and the Sabine Peninsula on Melville Island, NU. …
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Avian nest predation: relationships with landscape characteristics and influences on adult and nestling behavior.
… between predator-specific nest predation and landscape composition dependent on the spatial scale at which it is examined, (2) are the nest defense behaviors of parent birds influenced by public information regarding nest predation risk, and (3) does nest predation risk influence the timing of …
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Assessing the Influence of Landscape Characteristics on Bat Fatalities at South Texas Wind Energy Facilities
… of my thesis was to assess the influence of landscape characteristics surrounding wind energy facilities and around specific turbines on the number of bat fatalities. I systematically searched 200 wind turbines and collected 1,067 bat carcasses at Hidalgo and Los Vientos Wind Energy …
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Relationship of Ruffed Grouse Home Range Size and Movement to Landscape Characteristics in Southwestern Virginia
I addressed the effects of landscape characteristics on ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) home range size and movement, and examined grouse selection for specific landscape characteristics and cover types. Grouse home ranges and movement patterns derived from telemetry data gathered from fall 1996 …
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Landscape Characteristics Affecting Habitat Use and Productivity of Avifauna on Stock Ponds in Western South Dakota
The effects of local- and landscape-level characteristics on nongarne wetland bird occurrence and density and waterfowl pair and brood density and rates of productivity (broods/ 1 00 pairs) were evaluated in 1 999 and 2000 in western South Dakota. Nongame wetland bird use for the 1 0 most common …
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Nocturnal roost tree, roost site and landscape characteristics of Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorynchus latirostris) on the Swan Coastal Plain
… they are an ideal model species to test the characteristics or factors that are associated with roost sites. Known roost sites distributed across the Swan Coastal Plain were identified and selected through the Great Cocky Count project. A minimum of five and maximum of ten individual trees …
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A study of the impacts of fragmentation on the North Kent grazing marshes landscape characteristics, features and vegetation communities
… interms of their vegetation communities or their landscape characteristics. This study sought to define coastal grazing marshes in terms of the landscape characteristics and features, and to identify the range of vegetation communities, which are typical of the North Kent Marshes. The methodology …
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Impacts of habitat and landscape characteristics on reproductive ecology of female lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) in the boreal forests of Alberta
… understand how changes in habitat features and landscape changes could negatively impact breeding scaup; this information could also help to guide waterfowl conservation and management programs. It has been hypothesized that landscape modifications, such as agricultural and oil exploitation …
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Spatiotemporal Drivers of Municipal Water Consumption
… joint influences of social, urban, and physical landscape characteristics on patterns of municipal water consumption at the county scale for the state of Texas using a cross-sectional research design on three distinct temporal slices (1990, 2000, and 2010). Global multiple linear regression …
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Franz Josef, township of Waiho Gorge : an alternative extension proposal
This study attempts to draw attention to landscape characteristics important in development, and specific to the Franz Josef region. The landscape study involves a survey of the existing village with regard to its regional context. This is undertaken in order to identify characteristic features. …
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Multivariate Analysis of Canadian Water Quality Data
… (WT), pH, SC and TP; for a subset of 42 sites. Landscape characteristics were calculated for each water quality monitoring site and their importance in explaining water quality data was examined through redundancy analysis. The first principal components in the analyses of Matrix A and B were …
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An econometric model of determinants of visitor use on western national forests
… public land visitation and individual site characteristics and facilities. In an attempt to predict visitation on both BLM and USFS lands, forty National Forests in the Western US were chosen for their spatial and landscape resemblance to BLM lands. Using multiple regressions, facility and …
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Raptor abundance and diversity and red-shouldered hawk ( Buteo lineatus) habitat characteristics on reclaimed mountaintop mines in southern West Virginia
… fill mines in southern West Virginia. Habitat characteristics of Red-shouldered Hawks (Buteo lineatus) were examined at landscape and microhabitat scales. Forty-eight points were surveyed monthly (Feb. 2000--Jan. 2001) using broadcast calls. I quantified microhabitat characteristics within an …
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Dirt Roads and Dual-Sports: Geography and Mobility of the Trans-America Trail
… motorcycle route changes across space, how the characteristics of adventure motorcyclists have created the representation of the TAT, and how the mobility of this route can be described in terms of Cresswell's six politics of mobility––motivation, speed, rhythm, route, experience, and friction. …
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Influence of habitat complexity on diversity and community structure of arboreal spiders in grassland-shrub systems
… is influenced by abiotic (e.g., temperature, landscape characteristics, and nutrients) and biotic (e.g., food availability) factors through both direct and indirect mechanisms. Many of these niche factors can influence the spatial position of plants in a landscape. Plant communities often …
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Fitness Landscape Analysis for the Differential Evolution Algorithm
… parameter configurations and problem-specific landscape characteristics. This thesis undertakes a comprehensive investigation into three foundational aspects of DE design: the critical role and intricate interplay of its control parameters; the influence of fitness landscape characteristics …
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Airport landscape as open-ended heritage the future of Class A airfields in the UK
… of Class A airfields should focus on general landscape characteristics—with emphasis on scale, patterns, and spatial relationships—rather than original functions and material conditions. Also, alternative uses or development should be allowed on a limited basis. To help guide preservation …
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