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Age‐specific survival of reintroduced swift fox in Badlands National Park and surrounding lands
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2016 In 2003, a reintroduction program was initiated at Badlands National Park (BNP), South Dakota, USA, with swift foxes (Vulpes velox) translocated from Colorado and Wyoming, USA, as part of a restoration effort to recover declining swift fox populations ...
Indrani Sasmal +3 more
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Salt marsh harvest mouse abundance and site use in a managed marsh [PDF]
, 2009 The salt marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris) is a federal and California listed endangered mammal endemic to the San Francisco Bay. The objectives of this research were to determine habitat use of endangered salt marsh harvest mice in a ...
Basson, Galli
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Microhabitat preferences of Biomphalaria pfeifferi and Lymnaea natalensis in a natural and a man-made habitat in southeastern Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2000 Schistosoma mansoni is an important human parasitic disease which is widespread throughout Africa. As Biomphalaria pfeifferi snails act as intermediate host, knowledge of their population ecology is an essential prerequisite towards understanding disease
Tanner, M, Utzinger, J
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, 2017 Cetacean populations in coastal habitats are increasingly threatened by multiple anthropogenic impacts. Monitoring these populations to obtain robust estimates of abundance and detect trends over time is critical to achieve conservation goals.
F. Daura-Jorge, P. C. Simões‐Lopes
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Estimating the prevalence of drug use using mark-recapture methods [PDF]
Sparked by the need to inform the response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in drug injecting populations in the 1980s and the desire to base local, national and international responses to tackling drug use in the 1990s on solid epidemiological data, the mark ...
Hay, G, Richardson, C
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The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Shersingh Joseph Tumber‐Dávila +5 more
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Mastery Exams: Giving Students a Second Opportunity to Demonstrate Understanding
Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Various stressors can affect student exam performance, and a single weak result may not reflect true understanding. To address this, a “Mastery” exam policy was introduced in the 2021–2022 academic year. If a student scores below 80% on a didactic or pre‐clinical laboratory exam worth at least 10% of their final course grade, they can choose ...
Alexandra Rasdal +3 more
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Estimating effective population size using close‐kin mark–recapture
Methods in Ecology and EvolutionClose‐kin mark–recapture (CKMR) is a method that allows estimating population census size, among other parameters, through the observed number of pairs that are close‐kin including parent–offspring pairs (POPs) and half‐sibling pairs (HSPs).
Jonathan Babyn +3 more
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Spread of Plague Among Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs Is Associated With Colony Spatial Characteristics [PDF]
, 2011 Sylvatic plague (Yersinia pestis) is an exotic pathogen that is highly virulent in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) and causes widespread colony losses and individual mortality rates \u3e95%. We investigated colony spatial characteristics
Collinge, Sharon K. +5 more
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Malaria Journal, 2019 Background A clear understanding of mosquito biology is fundamental to the control efforts of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria. Mosquito mark-release-recapture (MMRR) experiments are a popular method of measuring the survival and dispersal of ...
Adam Saddler +7 more
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