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Displaying 3,731 - 3,740 of 64,750 Publications- Active management for promoting oaks (Quercus spp.) and restraining maples (Acer spp.) is mostly conducted in public forests (e.g., national forests [NF] and state forests [SF]) because of oaks' ecological and economic importance. Studies have shown that current management efforts have limited success, meanwhile, oakdominant forests continue to shift in composition and structure to shade-tolerant, fire-sensitive mesophytic species (e.g., red maple A. rubrum). It remains to be evaluated whether current management can achieve its objectives in public forests and at regional scales. In this...AuthorsShengwu Duan, Hong S. He, Lauren S. Pile, Thomas W. Bonnot, Jacob S. FraserKeywordsSourceForest Ecology and ManagementYear2023
- While past research suggests that urban greenspace is associated with weaker income-based mortality inequities, little is known about associations with racial inequities, which may be distinct owing to historical and contemporary forms of racism. We quantified the extent to which different measures of greenspace modified socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality. For every residential census tract in Philadelphia, PA (N = 376), we linked counts of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality (years 2008–2015) with measures of greenspace (proporti...AuthorsLeah H. Schinasi, Michelle Kondo, Janelle Edwards, Jane E. Clougherty, Anneclaire J. De Roos, Usama BilalKeywordsSourceJournal of Urban HealthYear2023
- The brown‐headed nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) was likely extirpated from Missouri in the early 1900s as a result of habitat loss through extensive logging. Conservation partners including the Missouri Department of Conservation, United States Forest Service, University of Missouri, and others, relocated 102 brown‐headed nuthatches from Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas to Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri in 2020 and 2021 to establish a local population. We tracked 50 individuals for 24 ± 11 (median ± SD) days after release using radio telemetry and monitored movements in relation to...AuthorsKristen M. Heath‐Acre, Sarah W. Kendrick, Frank R. Thompson, Thomas W. Bonnot, Brian Davidson, James A. CoxKeywordsSourceWildlife Society BulletinYear2023
- AuthorsDouglas Booher, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Matthew P. Nelsen, Leo Ohyama, Mark Deyrup, Corrie S. Moreau, Andrew V SuarezSourceCurrent BiologyYear2023
- Dated, geo-referenced museum specimens are a rich data source for reconstructing species' distribution and abundance patterns. However, museum records are potentially biased towards over-representation of rare species, and it is unclear whether museum records can be used to estimate relative abundance in the field. We assembled 17 coupled field and museum datasets to quantitatively compare relative abundance estimates with the Dirichlet distribution. Collectively, these datasets comprise 73,039 museum records and 1,405,316 field observations of 2,240 species. Although museum records of...AuthorsNicholas J. Gotelli, Douglas Booher, Mark C. Urban, Werner Ulrich, Andrew V Suarez, David K. Skelly, David J. Russell, Rebecca J. Rowe, Matthew Rothendler, Nelson Rios, Sandra M. Rehan, George Ni, Corrie S. Moreau, Anne E. Magurran, Faith A. M. Jones, Gary R. Graves, Cristina Fiera, Ulrich Burkhardt, Richard B. PrimackKeywordsSourceMethods in Ecology and EvolutionYear2023
- Trait-based ecology has surged in recent decades but a framework to assess eusocial taxa, such as ants and termites, has been left underdeveloped because ecological trait-based approaches have yet to examine the ecological relationships and potential mechanisms between different trait components (i.e. queen, colony and worker). We collected worker-, queen-and colony-scale traits of the ants of Florida, an ant faunae comprised of ~25% nonnative species, based on morphology, natural and life histories and combined these traits with geospatial data. We used these data to assess and develop...AuthorsLeo Ohyama, Douglas Booher, Joshua R. KingKeywordsSourceFunctional EcologyYear2023
- Across the United States, rivers and streams connect people with recreation opportunities, drinking water, and complex and critical ecosystems. Riparian forests perform important ecosystem services, including filtering nutrients, preventing soil erosion, filtering sediment from runoff, and offering shade and wildlife habitat. Without these crucial forest buffers, the likelihood of croplands and downstream communities flooding, pollution contaminating rivers and streams, and ecosystems breaking down increases.AuthorsNorthern Research Station. USDA Forest ServiceSourceRooted in Research Issue 18, September 2023Year2023
- AuthorsCharles A. Braman, Elizabeth McCarty, Michael Ulyshen, Amy Joy Janvier, Clayton Traylor, Miriam Edelkind-Vealey, S. Kristine. BramanKeywordsSourceFrontiers in Sustainable CitiesYear2023
- Whereas the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States historically experienced fire primarily during the mid-summer lightning season, managers today typically apply prescribed fire during the late winter or early spring months. The ecological implications of this discrepancy remain poorly understood, especially with regard to pollinators and their interactions with flowers. In a replicated field experiment, we compared the abundance and richness of bees and bee–flower interactions among pine savanna plots in Florida that were burned either during the winter, spring, summer, or fall....AuthorsMichael Ulyshen, Kevin Robertson, Scott Horn, Cinnamon DixonKeywordsSourceEcology and EvolutionYear2023
- AuthorsIva Franić, Eric Allan, Simone Prospero, Kalev Adamson, Fabio Attorre, Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg, Sylvie Augustin, Dimitrios Avtzis, Wim Baert, Marek Barta, Kenneth Bauters, Amani Bellahirech, Piotr Boroń, Helena Bragança, Tereza Brestovanská, May Bente Brurberg, Treena Burgess, Daiva Burokienė, Michelle Cleary, Juan Corley, David R. Coyle, György Csóka, Karel Černý, Kateryna Davydenko, Maarten de Groot, Julio Javier Diez, H. Tugba Doğmuş Lehtijärvi, Rein Drenkhan, Jacqueline Edwards, Mohammed Elsafy, Csaba Béla Eötvös, Roman Falko, Jianting Fan, Nina Feddern, Ágnes Fürjes-Mikó, Martin M. Gossner, Bartłomiej Grad, Martin Hartmann, Ludmila Havrdova, Miriam Kádasi Horáková, Markéta Hrabětová, Mathias Just Justesen, Magdalena Kacprzyk, Marc Kenis, Natalia Kirichenko, Marta Kovač, Volodymyr Kramarets, Nikola Lacković, Maria Victoria Lantschner, Jelena Lazarević, Marianna Leskiv, Hongmei Li, Corrie Lynne Madsen, Chris Malumphy, Dinka Matošević, Iryna Matsiakh, Tom W. May, Johan Meffert, Duccio Migliorini, Christo Nikolov, Richard O’Hanlon, Funda Oskay, Trudy Paap, Taras Parpan, Barbara Piškur, Hans Peter Ravn, John Richard, Anne Ronse, Alain Roques, Beat Ruffner, Alberto Santini, Karolis Sivickis, Carolina Soliani, Venche Talgø, Maria Tomoshevich, Anne Uimari, Michael Ulyshen, Anna Maria Vettraino, Caterina Villari, Yongjun Wang, Johanna Witzell, Milica Zlatković, René EschenSourceScientific ReportsYear2023