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Peterson, Wu, Rho
Biologists generally assume that habitat loss, fragmentation, and conversion resulting from changes in landuse are primarily responsible for the nearly rangewide declines in northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) abundance noted since at least 1990…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Kuvlesky, Fulbright, Engel-Wilson
Five native quail species inhabit arid and semi-arid ecosystems in the southwastern United States. One species is endangered, one species is declining throughout it's historic range, another species is declining in portions of its historic range,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Engel-Wilson, Kuvlesky
An overview of the 4 native species of quail in Arizona, their distribution, and habitats is presented. Possible threats to their long-term existence are explored. A discussion on harvest and hunters and the biological and political impacts hunters…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Barton
Fire exclusion in southwestern USA and northern Mexico has decreased fire frequency and increased fire intensity in many forest types. I examined the effects of intense crown fire in a Madrean oak-pine community in southeastern Arizona, an ecosystem…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Sánchez-Velásquez, Ezcurra, Martínez-Ramos, Álvarez-Buylla, Lorente
Summary1. Zea Diploperennis is a wild relative of maize that is endemic to the Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Because this species is a priority for conservation in the reserve, the effects on its populations of the most common…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Kramer
People are having an ever-increasing impact on their local, regional, and global environments, the impact is particularly significant on urban areas, where concentrated human development fragments and transforms natural resources, thereby resulting…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Alavalapati
Human-induced factors are causing significant changes in the American wildland-urban interface (WUJ) thereby affecting forestlands The National Resource Inventory, for example, estimates that 11.5 million acres of non-federal forests were converted…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Monroe
Perhaps more than any other wildland-urban interface challenge, the interface makes wildland fire an issue. Some lightning-started wildland fires might be left to burn and maintain natural ecosystems if human lives and structures were not threatened…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Bidwell, Engle, Moseley, Masters
From the Introduction ... "A 1985 survey by the Soil Conservation Service indicated that eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) and ashe juniper (I. ashei) had invaded almost 1.5 million acres in Oklahoma by 1950 and 3.5 million acres by 1985 (…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Catling, Sinclair
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Year: 2002
Type: Document