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Analysis of geographic location and pathways for influenza A virus infection of commercial upland game bird and conventional poultry farms in the United States of America

open access: yesBMC Veterinary Research, 2019
Background Avian influenza (AI) is an infectious viral disease that affects several species and has zoonotic potential. Due to its associated health and economic repercussions, minimizing AI outbreaks is important.
Amos Ssematimba   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Executive Function and Entrepreneurial Opportunity Exploitation Under Risk and Uncertainty

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how executive functions shape entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation under different knowledge environments. Drawing on Knight's distinction between risk and uncertainty, we conducted a vignette experiment with 200 working adults.
Ipek Koparan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crommet Creek Conservation Area Management Plan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Crommet Creek Conservation Area comprises the largest block of natural lands in the immediate Great Bay watershed, and in New Hampshire’s North Atlantic Coast Ecoregion. It includes the entire watershed of two tidal creeks that flow directly into the
Brickner-Wood, Dea   +5 more
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Robustness Assessment of Public Transport Networks in Various Graph Representations: Systematic Review, Decision Support, and Case Study

open access: yesNetworks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The analysis of certain properties of the underlying graph of a public transport network generates insights about the network's structure. Hereby, the choice of the graph representation depends on a trade‐off between complexity reduction and information preservation to adequately model a public transport network.
Michael Palk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adapting to Environmental and Social Change: Subsistence in Three Aleutian Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Our surroundings and society are both constantly evolving. Some changes are due to natural processes. People are responsible for other changes, because of what we do—for example, increasing the size of the population, expanding technology, and ...
Berman, Matthew, Schmidt, Jennifer
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Frugivory‐mediated trophic cascades: how apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy‐fruited tree

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
The recovery of large carnivores offers unique opportunities to study their cascading impacts on plant population dynamics. Medium‐sized carnivores, both prey and seed dispersers, are suppressed by apex predators, indirectly increasing seed‐eating rodent's populations and potentially altering plant establishment.
Tamara Burgos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of Campylobacter in Reared Game Birds

open access: yesJournal of Food Protection, 2006
A total of 103 pooled samples of neck skin and meat from pigeons for the table and neck skin of pheasant were analyzed bacteriologically to determine the presence of Campylobacter. Colonies suspected of being Campylobacter were grown from 15.8% of pigeon neck skin samples, 12.5% of pigeon meat samples, and 50% of pheasant neck skin samples after ...
G. Soncini   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Functional diversity in agricultural landscapes: evidence of long‐term clustering and multi‐scale effects of land use on avian communities

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
Functional diversity (FD) is an essential community property connecting biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and conservation objectives. In agricultural landscapes, avian communities, which play key functional roles, are facing large‐scale biodiversity erosion, largely due to land‐use changes.
Pietro Tirozzi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

3: RESTORATION OF THE EASTERN WILD TURKEY IN MISSOURI

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 1973
Missouri's pre‐Columbian wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) population is estimated to have been 250,000 to 400,000 birds. Settlement in the late 1800's reduced virgin forests by 50 percent and eliminated the turkey from more than 83 percent of
Dan F. Dichneite
doaj   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, October 9, 1945 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1944
Volume 34, Issue 4https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/3643/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
core   +2 more sources

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