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AMPHIBIAN RESPONSE TO A LARGE-SCALE HABITAT RESTORATION IN THE PRAIRIE POTHOLE REGION [PDF]
, 2016 Over the next half-century, scientists anticipate that nearly one third of the currently recognized 7,450 amphibian species will become extinct. Many organizations have responded to the challenge of conserving amphibian biodiversity, some indirectly ...
Hawkins, Michael J. +4 more
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Estimating offsets for avian displacement effects of anthropogenic impacts [PDF]
, 2019 Biodiversity offsetting, or compensatory mitigation, is increasingly being used in temperate grassland ecosystems to compensate for unavoidable environmental damage from anthropogenic developments such as transportation infrastructure, urbanization, and ...
Arnett E. B. +17 more
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Waterbird Use of Sheetwater Wetlands in Iowa’s Prairie Pothole Region
Wetlands, 2015 Large expanses of land across midcontinental North America have been heavily modified by installation of artificial drainage to convert prairie pothole wetlands into tillable areas. Drained potholes are observed as sheetwater wetlands in agricultural fields, are valued by migratory waterbirds, and have only been studied in limited contexts.
Kevin T. Murphy, Stephen J. Dinsmore
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PLoS ONE, 2015 We used publically available data on duck breeding distribution and recently compiled geospatial data on upland habitat and environmental conditions to develop a spatially explicit model of breeding duck populations across the entire Prairie Pothole ...
Kevin E Doherty +4 more
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Wetlands Retention and Optimal Management of Waterfowl Habitat under Climate Change
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2014 We develop a positive mathematical programming model to investigate the impact of climate change on land use in the prairie pothole region of western Canada, with particular focus on wetlands retention. We examine the effect of climate change and biofuel
Patrick Withey, G. Cornelis van Kooten
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Comparison of aquatic invertebrate communities in near-shore areas with high or low boating activity
Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 2019 Lakeshore areas provide important habitat for aquatic invertebrates in shallow lakes. However, these zones are prone to anthropogenic disturbances that include shoreline development, urbanization, nutrient inputs, agricultural and(or) recreational use ...
Bradley J. Smith +5 more
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Ecosphere, 2022 For upland‐nesting ducks that rely on grassland and wetland habitats in landscapes characterized by human alteration and a strongly fluctuating climate, information on how landscape composition interacts with climate is needed to better understand the ...
Lauren E. Bortolotti +3 more
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Assessment of USGS DEMs for modelling pothole inundation in the prairie pothole region of Iowa
Geocarto International, 2019 This study aims to compare inundation in two potholes using Annualized Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution model (AnnAGNPS) with three Digital Elevation Models (DEMs): a 1 m DEM prepared from t...
P. Upadhyay, A.L. Kaleita, M.L. Soupir
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Distribution of priority grassland bird habitats in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada
Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2018 Grassland ecosystems and the species that rely on them are one of the most urgent habitat conservation concerns in North America. Fundamental to any landscape conservation efforts is the identification of priority habitats to help target management ...
Bradley C. Fedy +3 more
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A watershed classification approach that looks beyond hydrology: application to a semi-arid, agricultural region in Canada [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2019 Classification and clustering approaches provide a means to group watersheds according to similar attributes, functions, or behaviours, and can aid in managing natural resources.
J. D. Wolfe +4 more
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