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Western Message Petroglyphs indicate historic beaver presence in a San Francisco Bay Area watershed

open access: yesCalifornia Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2021
Recent museum, archaeological, and observer record evidence suggests that North American beaver (Castor canadensis) were historically native to the watersheds of California’s coast, including San Francisco Bay.
Leigh Marymor, Richard Burnham Lanman
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Staphylococcus aureus Sequences from Osteomyelitic Specimens of a Pathological Bone Collection from Pre-Antibiotic Times

open access: yesDiversity, 2017
Staphylococcus aureus is a major pathogen causing osteomyelitis, amongst other diseases, and its methicillin-resistant form (MRSA) in particular poses a huge threat to public health. To increase our knowledge of the origin and evolution of S.
Anna Lena Flux   +3 more
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Past forward: Recommendations from historical ecology for ecosystem management

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2020
In the context of accelerating environmental change, there is an urgent need to identify ecosystem conservation, restoration, and management strategies likely to support biodiverse and adaptive ecosystems into the future.
Erin E. Beller   +3 more
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The globalization of naval provisioning: ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses of stored cod from the wreck of the Mary Rose, AD 1545 [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2015
A comparison of ancient DNA (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) and carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence suggests that stored cod provisions recovered from the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose, which sank in the Solent, southern England, in 1545,
William F. Hutchinson   +8 more
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Historical Fires Induced Deforestation in Relict Scots Pine Forests during the Late 19th Century

open access: yesFire, 2021
Mountain forests are subjected to several pressures including historical land-use changes and climate warming which may lead to shifts in wildfire severity negatively impacting tree species with low post-fire growth resilience. This is the case of relict
J. Julio Camarero   +6 more
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Historical influences on community ecology [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005
Vitt and Pianka's analyses revealed significant dietary shifts at six major divergence points. Why does California, a large and topographically complex state that spans fogdrenched redwood groves to desert sand dunes, have 30 species of snakes, whereas roughly twice that number occur in five square miles of lowland Costa Rican rainforest?
openaire   +2 more sources

Historical ecology of forest garden management in Laxyuubm Ts’msyen and beyond

open access: yesEcosystems and People, 2023
Cultural land-use is an important driver of ecosystem change, influencing the composition of species across landscapes and through time. Recent research in northwestern North America has shown that historical Indigenous land-use and forest management has
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong   +5 more
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Human Ecology 33:1, April 2005, Impact of Human ecology Research

open access: yes, 2005
Impact of Human Ecology Research, and 2003-04 Annual Report of the College of Human ...
College of Human Ecology
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Review of considerations for restoration of tule elk to the San Francisco Peninsula and northern Monterey Bay counties of California

open access: yesCalifornia Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2022
Successful translocations of tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) have been conducted since the early 1900s, with their state population rising from a nadir of as few as three surviving individuals to about 500 when reintroductions began, and to over 5 ...
Richard B. Lanman   +7 more
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Historical Ecology and Ethnobiology: Applied Research for Environmental Conservation and Social Justice

open access: yesEthnobiology Letters, 2015
Historical ecology provides a research program and toolkit for applied interdisciplinary research in ethnobiology. With a focus on long-term changes in built environments and cultural landscapes, historical ecology emphasizes the need for scientific ...
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong   +1 more
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