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Beck, Connelly, Reese
The ability of prescribed fire to enhance habitat features for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis) in western North America is poorly understood. We evaluated recovery of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Simmons, Legra
We undertook a 3-week expedition to Papua New Guinea in April-May 2007 to assess the breeding, threats and Population densities of the Papuan Harrier Circus spilonotus spilothorax and to determine a first global Population estimate for this almost…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Klenner, Walton
We used the TELSA forest landscape model to examine the long-term consequences of applying different forest management scenarios on indicators of wildlife habitat, understory productivity, crown fuel hazard, timber yield and treatment costs. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Saint-Germain, Greene
Fire has been part of the North American boreal and cordilleran ecosystems for thousands of years. Because fire and harvesting compete directly for the same wood supply, and provinces have, within the last few decades, tended to reach their annual…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Nagahuedi, Popesku, Trudeau, Weber
Wild semipalmated sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) eat n-3 fatty acids to prime their muscles for long migrations. Sedentary bobwhite quails (Colinus virginianus) were used as a model to investigate the mechanisms for this natural doping. Our goal was…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Jaime, Lopez, Lickliter
Gaze following allows individuals to detect the locus of attention of both conspecifics and other species. However, little is known about how this ability develops. We explored the emergence of bobwhite quail hatchlings' ability to track human gaze…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Watson
Burning of the forest floor alters the structural components that constitute the organic substrate. Many small animal species inhabit this layer, which typically consists of leaf litter from surrounding trees. The availability of a species'…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Teinert
Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) life history is well documented. However, most research on this species was conducted on hunted populations. Overwinter survival from non-hunted populations of bobwhites is an important parameter for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Smith, Finch, Hawksworth
Despite widespread efforts to avert wildfire by reducing the density of flammable vegetation, little is known about the effects of this practice on the reproductive biology of forest birds. We examined nest-site selection and nest survival of the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Pope, Block, Beier
We examined effects of prescribed fire on 3 wintering, bark-foraging birds, hairy woodpeckers (Picoides villosus), pygmy nuthatches (Sitta pygmaea), and white-breasted nuthatches (S. carolinensis), in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document