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Karki, Hallgren
Cross Timbers forests of south-central North America contain large expanses of relatively undisturbed old-growth forest where gap-phase regeneration is the main mode of canopy replacement. These forests are threatened by fire suppression,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Foye, Greenwood, Masloski, Payton
Numbers of northern bobwhite, Colinus virginianus (L.), have decreased during the past 50 years in Oklahoma. It is unknown if the availability of ground-dwelling arthropods on which bobwhite chicks rely for 80% of their protein requirements plays a…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Finney, Cohen, Forthofer, McAllister, Gollner, Gorham, Saito, Akafuah, Adam, English
Large wildfires of increasing frequency and severity threaten local populations and natural resources and contribute carbon emissions into the earth-climate system. Although wildfires have been researched and modeled for decades, no verifiable…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

McCaffrey, Rhodes, Stidham
Recent years have seen growing interest within the United States fire management community in exploring alternatives to the standard approach of evacuating entire populations that are threatened by a wildfire. There has been particular interest in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Dunham, Soliz, Brightman, Rollins, Fedynich, Kendall
Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) have experienced a dramatic decline in West Texas over the last 3 yr, and investigations are underway to evaluate the role of parasites in this decline. One of the key parasites being investigated is the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Cooper, Jhala, Rollins, Feagin
Northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) represent a valuable resource for upland game-bird hunters and the rural economies they support; however, bobwhite populations are declining across the United States. As ground-nesting birds, bobwhites are…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Bruno, Fedynich, Purple, Gerhold, Rollins
Northern Bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) have been in decline throughout the southeastern US. Prevalence of Trichomonas gallinae in wild bobwhites is unknown, although T. gallinae caused morbidity and mortality in experimentally infected bobwhites.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Abella, Fisichelli, Schmid, Embrey, Hughson, Cipra
Globally, invasion by non-native plants threatens resources that nature reserves are designated to protect. We assessed the status of non-native plant invasion on 1,662, 0.1-ha plots in Death Valley National Park, Mojave National Preserve, and Lake…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos—to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Whitney, Gido, Pilger, Propst, Turner
Climate change and fire suppression have altered fire regimes globally, leading to larger, more frequent, and more severe wildfires. Responses of coldwater stream biota to single wildfires are well studied, but measured responses to consecutive…
Year: 2015
Type: Document