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Recovery of Greater Sage-Grouse habitat features in Wyoming big sagebrush following prescribed fire
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

Is the Papuan Harrier Circus spilonotus spilothorax a globally threatened species? Ecology, climate change threats and first population estimates from Papua New Guinea
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

Landscape-level habitat supply modeling to develop and evaluate management practices that maintain diverse forest values in a dry forest ecosystem in southern British Columbia
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

Pattern and process in forest bird communities on boreal landscapes originating from wildfire and timber harvest
Wyshynski, Nudds
Policy direction to emulate natural disturbance in managed boreal forests has spurred a need to contrast the dynamics of biota on landscapes originating from timber harvest and from wildfire (hereafter, ''managed'' and ''natural''). Typically,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document

Salvage logging in the boreal and cordilleran forests of Canada: integrating industrial and ecological concerns in management plans
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

Reproductive success of the black-backed woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) in burned boreal forests: are burns source habitats?
Nappi, Drapeau
The black-backed woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) is considered a fire specialist throughout its breeding range. Given its high abundance in recent burns, it has been hypothesized that post-fire forests are source habitats for this species. We…
Year: 2009
Type: Document

Mimicking the natural doping of migrant sandpipers in sedentary quails: effects of dietary n-3 fatty acids on muscle membranes and PPAR expression
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

Bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) hatchlings track the direction of human gaze
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

Selection of available post-fire substrate by the ground skink, Scincella lateralis (squamata: scincidae)
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

Overwinter survival of northern bobwhites in two ecoregions of Texas
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