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Ecology of Glacial Relict Fishes in South Dakota's Sandhills Region
<p>Native stream fish zoogeography has changed substantially across North America during the last century as habitat degradation, stream fragmentation and introductions of nonnative species have led to numerous extinctions, extirpations and altered distributions. Insufficient information regarding …
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Recruitment of Bluegill and Yellow Perch in Nebraska Sandhills Lakes: Integrating Multiple Life Stages
… are important, native sport fishes to Nebraska Sandhills lakes. Recruitment dynamics of the fish populations within a given community will ultimately structure the fish communities. I conducted a multiple life-stage investigation of bluegill and yellow perch recruitment in Nebraska Sandhills …
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The Role of Gopher Tortoise Burrows (Gopherus polyphemus) in Shaping Herpetofaunal Diversity in the Sandhills of Southeast Georgia
<p> Author's abstract: Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) are known to have large numbers of invertebrate and vertebrate species associated with their burrows. I compared herpetofaunal species diversity and richness at Gopher Tortoise burrows and random points not near burrows on a sandhill in …
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A Comparison of Movements and Burrow Usage Between Indigenous and Relocated Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in a Fall Line Sandhills Community
<p>The movements and burrow use of twenty (ten relocated and ten indigenous to the relocation site) adult gopher tortoises {Gopherus polyphemus) were followed during the late spring, summer and early autumn in Talbot County, Georgia. The objectives of this study were to determine whether relocated …
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A Herpetofaunal Survey of Boehler Seeps and Sandhills Preserve with an Emphasis on Turtle Communities and the Ecology of Deirochelys Reticularia Miaria
Reptile and amphibian populations are rapidly declining world-wide, making an in depth understanding of herpetological communities of vital importance. Therefore, I used seven methods to conduct a herpetological survey of a diverse community in southeastern Oklahoma. I documented 53 species of …
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Habitat use and activity patterns of Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) inhabiting military test ranges and forested sandhills at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
The Gopher Tortoise is an important component of a number of upland ecological communities throughout the southeastern U.S., but populations have experienced significant declines over the past century, largely in conjunction with the loss of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests. Military …
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Willa Cather and Her Novels
… toward the west until it breaks into the white sandhills of western Nebraska and Kansas and eastern Colorado. Prom east to west this plain measures something over five hundred miles; in appearance it resembles the wheat lands of Russia,which fed the continent of Europe for so many years. Like …
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The Ahipara gumfields
… pockets of bush survive in the gullies and sandhills stretch from Tuaroa Peak 201 metres down to the sea, the area as a whole having an atmosphere of true wilderness.
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Reevaluating the Geologic Formations of the Upper Coastal Plain in Chesterfield County, South Carolina
… of the geology of this portion of the Carolina Sandhills. Geologic mapping incorporated analyses of outcrops with LiDAR data, soil survey maps, ground-penetrating radar transects, and hand auger borings. Micro- and macrofossil identification and optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating …
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Environmental Influences on Gas Exchange in Fertilized and Non-Fertilized Stands of Loblolly Pine
… crowns in stands located in the North Carolina sandhills. Photosynthesis rates between control and fertilized stands for both seasonal and diurnal measurement periods were different during only three months. Photosynthesis rates were consistently greater in the upper third of the crown compared …
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An Assessment of Visual Encounter Surveys for an Elusive Species: The Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus)
… species occupies a narrow range in the Monahans Sandhills of Texas and the Mescalero Sands of New Mexico and like many habitat specialists, they are sensitive to disturbances within their environment. Conservation of this species relies upon precise assessments of the occurrence, abundance, and …
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Influence of fire and habitat on the removal of invasive plant seeds by granivores in longleaf pine savannas
… that varied spatially in time since fire, in the Sandhills of North Carolina. I selected eight sites burnt one growing season prior, and nine sites burnt three growing seasons prior, within which I established paired plots in upland plant communities, which included Pinus palustris, Aristida …