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Gerhold, McDougald, Beckstead
Coccidiosis is an important disease in captive gamebirds, including northern bobwhites (Colinusvirginianus). Three Eimeria species, Eimeria lettyae, Eimeria dispersa, and Eimeria colini, have been described in bobwhites. Distinguishing the various…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Pacheco, Escalante, Garner, Bradley, Aguilar
The avian haemosporidian parasites (phylum Apicomplexa) are taxonomically diverse and cosmopolitan in distribution: infecting most bird families. Sources of concern are reports of clinical haemosporidian infections in birds kept as part of zoo and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Limb, Fuhlendorf, Engle, Weir, Elmore, Bidwell
Achieving economically optimum livestock production on rangelands can conflict with conservation strategies that require lower stocking rate to maintain wildlife habitat. Combining the spatial and temporal interaction of fire and grazing (pyric-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Winter, Fuhlendorf, Goad, Davis, Hickman
Patch burning is the deliberate application of fire to a management unit in a heterogeneous manner, resulting in the heterogeneous distribution of grazing animal impact. The application of patch burning typically has been discussed within a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
White, Gutzwiller, Barrow, Johnson-Randall, Zygo, Swint
Avian conservation efforts must account for changes in vegetation composition and structure associated with climate change. We modeled vegetation change and the probability of occurrence of birds to project changes in winter bird distributions…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Ralphs, McDaniel
Broom snakeweed is a native weed widely distributed on rangelands of western North America. It often increases to near monocultures following disturbance from overgrazing, fire, or drought. This paper presents an up-to-date review of broom snakeweed…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Pocewicz, Kiesecker, Jones, Copeland, Daline, Mealor
Conservation easements are the primary tool used globally by land trusts and governmental agencies to achieve conservation goals on private lands, but empirical evaluations of their effectiveness are lacking. Here we compared biodiversity in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Pasch, Koprowski
Human suppression of fire has resulted in altered species composition and dense forest stands across the western United States. Accumulation of understory shrubs makes forests vulnerable to catastrophic fire and can impact animal use, whereas fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Milder, Clark
Conservation development projects combine real-estate development with conservation of land and other natural resources. Thousands of such projects have been conducted in the United States and other countries through the involvement of private…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Lowe, Pothier, Savard, Rompre, Bouchard
We studied the availability and characteristics of snags and their use by cavity-nesting birds in the northeastern part of the Canadian boreal forest. We built up two long-term (>200 years) chronosequences following time since the last fire in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document