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Predator Cues Reduce American Beaver Use of Foraging Trails

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Herbivores must balance energy needs with avoiding risks, using various cues to assess predation risk. The American beaver (Castor canadensis) is a semi-aquatic herbivore vulnerable to predation on land by wolves (Canis lupis).
William J. Severud   +3 more
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Tributary chloride loading into Lake Michigan

open access: yesLimnology and Oceanography Letters, 2023
Anthropogenic salt sources have contributed to rising salinities in the Laurentian Great Lakes. In Lake Michigan, chloride concentrations have risen from ~ 1–2 mg L−1 in the 1800s to > 15 mg L−1 in 2020.
Hilary A. Dugan   +3 more
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American Black Bear–Apiary Conflicts in Michigan

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
American black bear (Ursus americanus) damage to apiaries can result in substantial economic loss. We used records of black–bear apiary conflicts collected by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to characterize damage in the Upper and Northern ...
Beverly K. McKinley   +2 more
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Livestock and Domestic Dog Predations by Wolves in Michigan

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Wolves (Canis spp.) have recolonized the Great Lakes region and expanded into agricultural areas where there is increasing concern of conflict with livestock.
Justin L. Edge   +4 more
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Using Kiln Dust to Improve Weak Subgrades for Pavement Construction: A Field Verification in Michigan, USA

open access: yesGeotechnics, 2023
Remove-and-replace with suitable material has been the primary solution used for improving subgrades in Michigan, USA, when weak subgrades are encountered in road construction.
Nishantha Bandara   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long-distance dispersal in a recovering endangered shorebird population facilitates recolonization of historical nesting sites following decades of extirpation

open access: yesJournal of Field Ornithology, 2022
After extirpation from most of the Great Lakes by the 1980s, the Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus circumcinctus) did not nest again outside Michigan until 1998. The number of Plovers breeding in the region has gradually increased, with nesting locations
Andrew David. Brown   +4 more
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Implementation of Electric Fencing for Establishing Effective Livestock-Protection Dogs

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
To be effective, livestock protection dogs (LPDs) must be carefully integrated with the livestock they will be protecting. Others have developed guidelines to assist producers in this training and assimilation process. In many areas fencing is necessary;
Thomas M. Gehring   +2 more
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An Exploratory Ecological Study between COVID-19 Vaccination Rate and Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Status Neighborhood Conditions in Michigan

open access: yesCOVID, 2023
COVID-19 vaccination rate disparities continue to persist in the U.S., despite their wide availability. A multidimensional host of sociodemographic, economic, political, and cultural factors have resulted in differences in vaccine coverage rates across ...
Grigoris Argeros   +2 more
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Cultural adaptation of the Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire in patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Turkish version study

open access: yesChronic Diseases and Translational Medicine, 2015
Objective: Cultural adaptations of the questionnaires are important for easy use. We aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Turkish Version of the Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire in patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
Ilker Ilhanli   +2 more
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Yellow perch genetic structure and habitat use among connected habitats in eastern Lake Michigan

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
Maintenance of genetic and phenotypic diversity is widely recognized as an important conservation priority, yet managers often lack basic information about spatial patterns of population structure and its relationship with habitat heterogeneity and ...
Gregory M. Chorak   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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