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‘Using anuran community diversity and Pseudacris crucifer to predict landscape quality across a land use gradient'

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
As human‐modified landscape and climate changes proliferate, maintaining biodiversity and understanding the function and quality of available habitat is imperative. As anurans (frogs/toads) such as Pseudacris crucifer, can be an indicator species of habitat quality and ecosystem productivity, studying the anuran community in a mixed‐land use region ...
Brian C. Kron, Karen V. Root
wiley   +1 more source

Maximizing the detection probabilities of dusky grouse for population monitoring

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Despite its status as a game species in the western USA, rigorous monitoring of dusky grouse Dendragapus obscurus populations is limited. Obtaining an adequate number of observations for effective population monitoring of dusky grouse is challenging due to difficult‐to‐reach montane habitats, cryptic behaviors, and limited personnel, time, and funds at
Elizabeth A. Leipold, Claire Gower, Lance B. McNew   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combined Use of Multiple Cloud‐Free Snow Cover Products in China and Its High‐Mountain Region: Implications From Snow Cover Identification to Snow Phenology Detection

Water Resources Research
Accurate snow phenology detection, including snow cover days (SCD), snow start date (SSD), and snow end date (SED), is increasingly important for understanding mountain hydrology such as snow heterogeneity and snowmelt seasonality.
Longhui Zhang, Hongbo Zhang, Xueyan Sun, Lun Luo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Facultative Altitudinal Movements by Mountain White-Crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia Leucophrys Oriantha) in the Sierra Nevada [PDF]

, 2004
Mountain White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha) winter in Mexico and often arrive in the vicinity of their breeding grounds in the Sierra Nevada well before nesting is possible.
Breuner, Creagh W., Hahn, Thomas P., Morton, Martin L., Sockman, Keith W.   +3 more
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Quantifying microhabitat selection of snowshoe hares using forest metrics from UAS‐based LiDAR

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Identifying the spatial and temporal scale at which animals select resources is critical for predicting how populations respond to changes in the environment. The spatial distribution of fine‐scale resources (e.g. patches of dense vegetation) are often linked with critical life‐history requirements such as denning and feeding sites.
Alexej P. K. Sirén, Franklin Sullivan, Rachel Cliché, Jeremy Goetz, Leighlan S. Prout, Jillian Kilborn, Katelyn Courtot, Michael Palace   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Winter and spring climatic conditions influence timing and synchrony of calving in reindeer.

PLoS ONE, 2018
In a context of climate change, a mismatch has been shown to occur between some species' reproductive phenology and their environment. So far, few studies have either documented temporal trends in calving phenology or assessed which climatic variables ...
Amélie Paoli, Robert B Weladji, Øystein Holand, Jouko Kumpula   +3 more
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Extracting Plant Phenology Metrics in a Great Basin Watershed: Methods and Considerations for Quantifying Phenophases in a Cold Desert

Sensors, 2016
Plant phenology is recognized as important for ecological dynamics. There has been a recent advent of phenology and camera networks worldwide. The established PhenoCam Network has sites in the United States, including the western states.
Keirith A. Snyder, Bryce L. Wehan, Gianluca Filippa, Justin L. Huntington, Tamzen K. Stringham, Devon K. Snyder   +5 more
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Intercomparison of phenological transition dates derived from the PhenoCam Dataset V1.0 and MODIS satellite remote sensing [PDF]

, 2018
Phenology is a valuable diagnostic of ecosystem health, and has applications to environmental monitoring and management. Here, we conduct an intercomparison analysis using phenological transition dates derived from near-surface PhenoCam imagery and MODIS
Frolking, Stephen E., Hufkens, Koen, Milliman, Thomas E., Richardson, Andrew D.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

All roads lead to infection: A mechanistic model to assess transmission routes of brucellosis in a wild ungulate population

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Wildlife and domestic populations frequently share diseases with a potential for cross‐species transmission, posing significant threats to animal and human health, economy and biodiversity conservation.
Rémi Fay, Sébastien Lambert, Anne Thébault, Pascal Marchand, Ariane Payne, Elodie Petit, Carole Toïgo, Emmanuelle Gilot‐Fromont   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping forests in monsoon Asia with ALOS PALSAR 50-m mosaic images and MODIS imagery in 2010. [PDF]

, 2016
Extensive forest changes have occurred in monsoon Asia, substantially affecting climate, carbon cycle and biodiversity. Accurate forest cover maps at fine spatial resolutions are required to qualify and quantify these effects. In this study, an algorithm
Bajgain, Rajen, Biradar, Chandrashekhar M, Chen, Bangqian, Dai, Shengqi, Dong, Jinwei, Gilani, Hammad, Hou, Ying, Jin, Cui, Joshi, Pawan Kumar, Li, Xiangping, Menarguez, Michael Angelo, Moore, Berrien, Murthy, Manchiraju Sri Ramachandra, Qin, Yuanwei, Roy, Partha Sarathi, Wang, Jie, Xiao, Xiangming, Xin, Fengfei, Zhang, Geli, Zhang, Yao   +19 more
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