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(2011-08-25)It is estimated that 95% of all federally endangered Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) hibernate in 71 hibernacula in the eastern US. Given the species’ high site fidelity, seasonally heightened population densities, and the ...
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(2013-05-24)Aircraft collisions with wildlife are a major safety and economic concern for the aviation industry. Birdstrikes in particular are increasing due to rises in both the number of aircraft flights and the populations of ...
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(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-05-15)As part of the Critical Trends Assessment Program (CTAP) of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, 18 potential reference quality stream reaches in the Grand Prairie Natural Division were evaluated in May 2004 and ...
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(2004)Regeneration dynamics in an old-growth and a second-growth cove forest in the Great Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee were studied over the course of four contiguous growing seasons. Woody shrub and herbaceous species ...
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(2002)The effects of different concentrations of kanamycin, carbencillin, cefotaxime, and combinations of carbencillin and cefotaxime on regeneration from different tissues of rose (Rosa hybrida cv. Carefree Beauty) were ...
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(2013-08-22)Knowledge related to seed persistence in soil is critical for weed control decisions in the integrated weed management systems. Many annual weed species have dormant soil seed banks (SSBs), and this may be an important ...
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(2015-01-21)Enhanced management of hunting/fishing activities could be attained by understanding factors influencing license sales. Previous studies suggest socioeconomic status significantly influences participation in recreational ...
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(2014-01-16)Minuartia patula, slender sandwort (Caryophyllaceae), is a winter annual found in barrens, glades, rocky outcrops, and dolomite prairies of the eastern and central United States. This species is rare in Illinois, Indiana ...
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(2013-08-22)Brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) rely solely on hosts to raise their young. Although cowbirds parasitize 200+ species, recent evidence suggests that females avoid unsuitable hosts that either reject parasitic eggs ...
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(2012-09-18)The objective of my work was to determine factors that affect uptake of N by cool-season turfgrasses. Experiments were conducted to determine the quantity of foliar-applied N that is absorbed by turfgrass leaves, ways to ...
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(2015-11-11)Global climate change is expected to alter seawater conditions and marine ecosystems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that sea surface pH will decrease by 0.06 - 0.32 pH units and temperature ...
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(2013-05-24)A variety of non-prairie landscapes are restored to prairie on a yearly basis including pastures, croplands, and old fields. Most of these restoration efforts do not take into account the seed bank associated with these ...
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(2008)Ecological restoration is viewed as a means to accelerate succession to achieve a desired ecosystem, and wetland mitigation policies assume restoration can rapidly and predictably compensate for impacted wetlands. However, ...
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(2006)Temperature should be one of the most important factors influencing habitat selection in terrestrial ectotherms, because physiological processes depend on body temperature and body temperatures depend primarily on the ...
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(2011-05-25)Freshwater mussels are one of the most imperiled groups of animals in North America. Effective conservation strategies and resource management of freshwater mussels require adequately characterizing local mussel assemblages. ...
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(2011-05-25)The breeding and fledging success of Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis spp.) in urban landscapes has been largely unexplored by previous research. I evaluated survival and habitat use of young Greater Sandhill Cranes (G. ...
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(2014-09-16)The round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is a species within a large, tolerant, prolific family of fishes, Gobiidae, and has successfully invaded the Laurentian Great Lakes over the past two decades. Among the many reasons ...
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(2014-09-16)Electrofishing is one of the most widely used methods to sample fishes in freshwater ecosystems. There was an early consensus that AC electrofishing was more injurious to fishes than DC electrofishing, but this was based ...
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(2013-05-24)This thesis investigates the relationship between price and use of electricity in residential homes in order to understand the impact of CO2 policy. A model is developed based on household, structural, regional, weather, ...
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(2015-07-13)Exploring the causes and consequences of variation in species’ reproductive success is central to many research questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. For most species of birds, nest predation is the primary cause ...
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