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Bighorn sheep associations: understanding tradeoffs of sociality and implications for disease transmission [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Sociality directly influences mating success, survival rates, and disease, but ultimately likely evolved for its fitness benefits in a challenging environment.
Marie I. Tosa +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Significant heterogeneity has been observed among different ecosystem services (ES). Understanding the trade-offs and synergies among ES and delineating ecological functional zones is crucial for formulating regional management policies that improve ...
Yipeng Wang +7 more
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Atmosphere, 2021 The northeastern part of the Tengger Desert accommodates several lakes. The effect of these lakes on local temperatures is unclear. In this study, the effects of the lakes were investigated using land surface temperature (LST) from MODIS (Moderate ...
Nan Meng +7 more
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Acta Herpetologica, 2023 We assessed habitat use and preference with respect to artificial coverboards for the snake community of a restored tallgrass prairie. Coverboards offer herpetofauna protection from predators and space to thermoregulate their body temperature.
Carter Dollen +2 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Carbon sequestration levels in lakes are often underestimated despite being vital for the comprehensive analysis of CO2 budget and significantly influencing inland lakes in arid areas. In this study, the eddy covariance (EC) technique was used to measure
Ping Yang +6 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 Vegetation phenology and productivity play a crucial role in surface energy balance, plant and animal distribution, and animal movement and habitat use and can be measured with remote sensing metrics including start of season (SOS), peak instantaneous ...
Ethan E. Berman +5 more
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