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Ecology of declining populations of gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) in Indiana, USA Ecología de las poblaciones en declive de zorros grises (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) en Indiana, EE.UU.

Wildlife Monographs, EarlyView.
We estimated seasonal space use, cover selection, and resource selection; evaluated gene flow and potential genetic barriers; and assessed cause‐specific survival rates and reproduction of radiomarked gray foxes in Indiana, USA. Our results provide evidence that gray foxes in Indiana are an edge species with relatively large home ranges, relatively low
Tim L. Hiller, Julia A. Nawrocki, Brandon M. Bernhardt, Lane K. Jeakle, Dawn M. Reding, Geriann Albers   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Active Surveillance of Powassan Virus in Massachusetts Ixodes scapularis Ticks, Comparing Detection Using a New Triplex Real-Time PCR Assay with a Luminex Vector-Borne Panel

Viruses
Powassan virus is an emerging tick-borne pathogen capable of causing severe neuroinvasive disease. As the incidence of human Powassan virus grows both in magnitude and geographical range, the development of sensitive detection methods for diagnostics and
Guang Xu, Eric Siegel, Nolan Fernandez, Emily Bechtold, Timothy Daly, Alan P. Dupuis, Alexander Ciota, Stephen M. Rich   +7 more
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Ehrlichia chaffeensis Antibodies in White-Tailed Deer, Iowa, 1994 and 1996

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000
Surveillance of 2,277 white-tailed deer for antibodies against Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Iowa showed seropositivity rates of 12.5% in 1994 and 13.9% in 1996. From 1994 to 1996, the estimated number of seropositive deer increased to 54,701 (28%).
Linda Mueller-Anneling, Mary J. Gilchrist, Peter S. Thorne   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organic Representation as a Critical Media Approach to Leadership Studies in Popular Culture

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 75-80, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article applies the critical media concept of organic representation to leadership studies as an analytic of how various creators in popular culture today are not just writing inclusive storytelling but, more notably, modeling new modes of production and self‐presentation that are actively challenging hegemonic industry practices and ...
Raffi Sarkissian
wiley   +1 more source

Iowa State University: Iowa State's Deer Tick Home Page [PDF]

, 1996
Iowa State's Deer Tick site is an excellent resource for anyone learning to identify deer tick specimens. The site provides links to size comparison images and movies for female, male, and larva deer ticks, as well as nymph images.

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Evidence of the importance of host habitat use in predicting the dilution effect of wild boar for deer exposure to Anaplasma spp. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2008
Foci of tick-borne pathogens occur at fine spatial scales, and depend upon a complex arrangement of factors involving climate, host abundance and landscape composition.
Agustín Estrada-Peña, Pelayo Acevedo, Francisco Ruiz-Fons, Christian Gortázar, José de la Fuente   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Mammal community composition and season determine the abundance of questing ticks in mountainous forests of central Japan

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Understanding the ecological drivers of tick abundance is crucial to mitigate the growing risk of tick-borne diseases such as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in Japan.
Hayato Iijima, Kaori Morishima, Hirotaka Komine, Yuya Watari, Kandai Doi, Kimiko Okabe   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Providing Psychologically Safe Care in Inpatient Mental Healthcare. A Theoretical Domains Framework‐Informed Qualitative Study

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim(s) To explore the facilitators and barriers to staff providing psychologically safe care in inpatient mental healthcare when restrictive practices are used. Design Qualitative descriptive interview study. Methods Twenty semi‐structured interviews were conducted with staff with experience working in inpatient mental healthcare in England ...
Bethany Griffin, Chris Keyworth, Judith Johnson, John Baker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Management of white-tailed deer in the cattle fever tick permanent quarantine area of Zapata County, Texas [PDF]

, 2015
White-tailed deer are intermediate hosts for the cattle fever tick, which when infected, carries a protozoan that causes cattle fever, an important livestock disease. High deer densities in the cattle fever tick permanent quarantine area in Zapata County
Birdsall, Hank C.
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