Stanford University’s John Otterbein Snyder: Student, Collaborator, and Colleague of David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert [PDF]
, 2008 John Otterbein Snyder (1867–1943) was an early student of David Starr Jordan at Stanford University and subsequently rose to become an assistant professor there.
Brittan, Martin R., Jennings, Mark R.
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Scaling of soaring seabirds and its implication for the maximum size of flying pterosaurs [PDF]
, 2008 The flight ability of animals is restricted by the scaling effects imposed by physical and physiological factors. In comparisons of the power available from muscle and the mechanical power required to fly, theoretical studies have predicted that the ...
Akinori Takahashi +6 more
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Past research and future directions in understanding how birds use their sense of smell
Ibis, EarlyView.Our understanding of the functional importance of olfaction to birds has improved over the past 60 years, largely as the result of experimental studies testing how birds use their sense of smell in different contexts. As it is impossible to measure directly which odours birds can detect, we rely on measuring behavioural responses to scent cues or ...
Darcy Creece +2 more
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Asymptotic Solution to the Rayleigh Problem of Dynamic Soaring [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 Albatrosses can travel a thousand kilometers daily over the oceans. This feat is achieved through dynamic soaring, a non-flapping flight strategy where propulsive energy is extracted from horizontal wind shears. Dynamic soaring has been described as a sequence of half-turns connecting upwind climbs and downwind dives through the surface shear layer. We
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A review of methods used to analyse albatross diets—assessing priorities across their range
, 2016 Many seabird populations are threatened by interactions with commercial fisheries, and climate change. Understanding their prey requirements and dietary flexibility in this context is important for effective conservation and management.
Julie C. McInnes +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 Age-related variation in demographic rates is now widely documented in wild vertebrate systems, and has significant consequences for population and evolutionary dynamics.
H. Froy +10 more
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Biologically informed ecological niche models for an example pelagic, highly mobile species [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Although pelagic seabirds are broadly recognised as indicators of the health of marine systems, numerous gaps exist in knowledge of their at-sea distributions at the species level.
Ingenloff, Kate
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Biocentric Work in the Anthropocene: How Actors Regenerate Degenerated Natural Commons
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract As natural commons vital to selves, organizations, and institutions collapse under cumulative anthropogenic pressures, can human agency still reverse some of the damage already done? This article explores how emerging forms of social symbolic work regenerate degenerated natural commons.
Laura Albareda, Oana Branzei
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Using Deep Learning to Count Albatrosses from Space [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 In this paper we test the use of a deep learning approach to automatically count Wandering Albatrosses in Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery. We use a dataset of manually labelled imagery provided by the British Antarctic Survey to train and develop our methods.
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Symplastic and apoplastic pathways for local distribution of silicon in rice leaves
New Phytologist, EarlyView.Summary Silicon (Si) is highly accumulated in both the leaf blade and sheath of rice, but the transporter mediating the local distribution of Si between these two tissues remains unidentified. We investigated the role of an aquaporin, OsLsi6, in the local distribution of Si in rice leaves.
Sheng Huang +4 more
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