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Reproduction in Black-Crowned Night-Herons Fed Selenium [PDF]
Lake and Reservoir Management, 1988 ABSTRACT Agricultural and industrial practices can produce wastewater that contains high concentrations of selenium, a naturally-occurring trace element. Selenium entering aquatic systems through wastewater inflow can accumulate in aquatic food chains to levels that may be toxic to fish and wildlife species.
Gregory J. Smith +4 more
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Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2015 Canadian and U.S. federal wildlife agencies completed four decadal surveys, spanning the years 1977 to 2009, to census colonial waterbirds breeding on the Great Lakes and adjoining bodies of water.
Scott A. Rush +5 more
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Dual visible‐thermal camera approach facilitates drone surveys of colonial marshbirds
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Waterbirds are important indicators of wetland health, and understanding their status and trends is necessary for appropriate management and conservation.
Ann E. McKellar +2 more
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Mosquito host selection varies seasonally with host availability and mosquito density. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011 Host selection by vector mosquitoes is a critical component of virus proliferation, particularly for viruses such as West Nile (WNV) that are transmitted enzootically to a variety of avian hosts, and tangentially to dead-end hosts such as humans.
Tara C Thiemann +3 more
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Ecosphere, 2022 Wetland birds are undergoing severe population declines in North America, with habitat degradation and wetland loss considered two of the primary causes.
Anastasia A. Rahlin +2 more
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High recombination rates and hotspots in a Plasmodium falciparum genetic cross [PDF]
, 2010 Using the universal P2/P8 primers, we were able to obtain the gene segments of chromo-helicase-DNA binding protein (CHD)-Z and CHD-W from ten species of ardeid birds including Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes), little egret (E.
Jiang, Hongying +16 more
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Nest success and nest site selection of wetland birds in a restored wetland system
Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2021 Although most emergent wetlands across central North America have been destroyed or degraded, wetland restoration in recent decades has provided new habitat resources for wetland birds in agriculturally dominated landscapes.
Auriel M. V. Fournier +16 more
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Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2018 Abundance and distribution of Common Ravens (Corvus corax) have increased across western North America in recent decades, leading to conservation concern for sensitive prey species.
Brianne E. Brussee, Peter S. Coates
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Diet of Black-crowned Night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) in a wetland of the Paraná River´s alluvial valley [PDF]
, 2013 We analysed the feeding ecology of Nycticorax nycticorax based on fourty individuals captured on the Carabajal İsland (Santa Fe, 31º39?S, 60º42?W), determining the minimum sample, index of relative importance (IRI), size of prey, feeding efficiency ...
Beltzer, Adolfo Hector +3 more
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Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2018 Surajpur wetland is a prominent wetland site in National Capital Region, India, known for its rich biodiversity of flora and fauna. The present study was conducted to record the water bird diversity with an account of heronry from March 2010 to February
NASIM AHMAD ANSARI
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