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‘Using anuran community diversity and Pseudacris crucifer to predict landscape quality across a land use gradient'

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
As human‐modified landscape and climate changes proliferate, maintaining biodiversity and understanding the function and quality of available habitat is imperative. As anurans (frogs/toads) such as Pseudacris crucifer, can be an indicator species of habitat quality and ecosystem productivity, studying the anuran community in a mixed‐land use region ...
Brian C. Kron, Karen V. Root
wiley   +1 more source

You Can't Fish without a River [PDF]

A college helps the poor help themselves through social entrepreneurship.Guy Larry Osborne, Larry Osborne, Carson-Newman College, social entrepreneurship and nonprofit studies, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social business, social ...
Guy Larry Osborne
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Clearcutting in Appalachia: Impacts on Stream Water Quality in an Appalachian Watershed [PDF]

, 2019
Clearcutting forests has the potential to impact the water quality of high water headwater streams. In this study, we measured the effect of forest clearcut events on parameters of stream water quality within Michaux State Forest.
Kaewwilai, Alyssa J., Peterson, Hannah R., Rec, Abigail F.   +2 more
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Does a decision support tool designed to depict West Nile virus risk explain variation in ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus use of managed forests?

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Infectious diseases are commonly cited as significant contributors to wildlife population declines. It is, therefore, important to investigate the extent to which tools designed to mitigate the effects of infectious diseases explain wildlife responses to habitat management.
Jacob Goldman, Darin J. McNeil, Lauren M. Chronister, Randall Koleck, Samuel Lapp, Jeffery T. Larkin, Reina Tyl, Justin Kitzes, Jeffery L. Larkin   +8 more
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Lived Experience of Nursing Appalachia

Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2020
Purpose: Research in rural areas presents special challenges for sampling and recruitment. Examples of considerations include smaller sampling population, privacy concerns, and the rural context.
Evelyn P Brewer, Florence M. Weierbach, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Katherine C. Hall, Wendy Nehring   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fiddle tunes of the old frontier [PDF]

, 2008
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Jabbour, Alan
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Assessing the utility of autonomous recording units and spring point counts for monitoring abundance of ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus is a species of conservation concern that has declined across most of its range. At the southeastern trailing edge of the range in Georgia, grouse are restricted to elevations 600 m a.s.l. and abundance is relatively low.
Clayton D. Delancey, William B. Lewis, Gregory T. Wann, Richard B. Chandler, Emily Rushton, James A. Martin   +5 more
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia

Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies
Scott McClanahan, rising star of the US Indie Lit world and "Poet Laureate of Real America" (Moran), writes miasmic chronicles of life in a West Virginian holler.
Eva-Maria Müller
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Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment

Southern Spaces, 2008
In this photo essay set in mining communities of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, Earl Dotter seeks out changes in consumption and leisure, healthcare, coal mining practices, and the environment that have occurred since he first photographed ...
Earl Dotter
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Fish Space Use and Behavior in an Aquarium: The Use of Microhabitats as Enrichment

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
The inclusion of microhabitats in a stream tank serves as environmental enrichment for fish in human care. ABSTRACT Environmental enrichment is an important tool to maintain the health and well‐being of animals in human care, but studies of environmental enrichment for fish in human care have lagged behind those of land animals.
Avery Millard, Ben Stenger, Zach Anderson, Justin Ballew, Hannah Fallon, Olivia Lowman, Elizabeth McAllister, Jessica Morales Valenzuela, Andrew Stuckey, Zainab Tanveer, Quinn Towery, Sally Tyrell, Andy Wall, Anna George, Hope Klug   +14 more
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