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Habitat associations of Golden-winged Warblers and Blue-winged Warblers during the non-breeding season

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2023
The Golden-winged Warbler ( Vermivora chyrsoptera ) and Blue-winged Warbler ( Vermivora cyanoptera ) are both Neotropical migratory species of elevated conservation concern that overlap in distribution on their Central American wintering grounds, yet the
David I. King   +4 more
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Evaluation of the potential for carbon sink and association with land occupation

open access: yesJournal of Water and Climate Change, 2023
Anthropogenic influences on a global scale have caused negative impacts on the environment, among the most prominent being the increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Fernando Yogi   +3 more
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Using passive acoustic monitoring to estimate northern spotted owl landscape use and pair occupancy

open access: yesEcosphere, 2023
Managing forests for biodiversity conservation while maintaining economic output is a major challenge globally and requires accurate and timely monitoring of imperiled species. In the Pacific Northwest, USA, forest management is heavily influenced by the
Cara L. Appel   +5 more
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Trialling camera traps to determine occupancy and breeding in burrowing seabirds

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Burrowing seabirds are important in ecological and conservation terms. Many populations are in flux due to both negative and positive anthropogenic impacts, but their ecology makes measuring changes difficult.
Jeremy P. Bird   +3 more
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Simulation Based Energy Control and Comfort Management in Buildings Using Multi-Objective Optimization Routine [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences, 2020
Building energy management systems with high-level of sophistication have to control and manage a large set of actuators and other equipment and evaluate performance of each and every-subsystem on periodic basis. In the present study, a control algorithm
V. S. K. V. Harish, Arun Kumar
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Proactive Environmental Strategies and Their Impact on Hotel Competitiveness During Crisis: The Case of the Czech Hotel Industry

open access: yesJournal of Competitiveness, 2022
This research focuses on hotel competitiveness in the Czech Republic. It provides evidence that proactive environmental strategies implemented in hotel operations are a competitive advantage for hotels, especially during a crisis.
Karin Tothova   +4 more
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A Framework for Occupancy Tracking in a Building via Structural Dynamics Sensing of Footstep Vibrations

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2017
Counting the number of occupants in building areas over time—occupancy tracking—provides valuable information for responding to emergencies, optimizing thermal conditions or managing personnel.
Jeffrey D. Poston   +2 more
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Detectability of common ravens (Corvus corax) in the eastern USA: Rapid assessment of a recolonizing species

open access: yesEcosphere, 2022
Common ravens (Corvus corax) inhabited much of the eastern United States prior to European colonization but were nearly extirpated by the mid‐1900s. Although remnant raven populations have since begun recolonizing portions of their historic range in the ...
Zachary J. Hackworth   +3 more
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Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) surveys in the North American Intermountain West: utilizing citizen scientists to conduct monitoring across a broad geographic scale

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2016
The Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) is an open-country species breeding in the northern United States and Canada, and has likely experienced a long-term, range-wide, and substantial decline.
Robert A. Miller   +4 more
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Understanding carnivore interactions in a cold arid trans‐Himalayan landscape: What drives co‐existence patterns within predator guild along varying resource gradients?

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2023
Predators compete for resources aggressively, forming trophic hierarchies that shape the structure of an ecosystem. Competitive interactions between species are modified in the human‐altered environment and become particularly important where an ...
Priyanka Justa, Salvador Lyngdoh
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