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Assessing prioritization measures for a private land conservation program in the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region

Conservation Science and Practice, 2023
Private land conservation has become an important tool for protecting biodiversity and habitat, but methods for prioritizing and scheduling conservation on private land are still being developed.
Kaylan M. Kemink, Robert. L. Pressey, Vanessa M. Adams, Christoph Nolte, Sarah K. Olimb, Aidan M. Healey, Boyan Liu, Todd Frerichs, Randy Renner   +8 more
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Transcriptome analysis reveals the alleviating effect of Polysaccharide of Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz on thymic involution in Magang geese

Poultry Science
Thymic involution is one of the important causes of decreased immunity in the body. Noncoding RNAs (miRNAs and lncRNAs) play crucial roles in regulating organ growth and development.
Xiang Zhou, Weijun Liang, Longsheng Hong, Shuying Gong, Zhuokun Liu, Wanyan Li, Nan Cao, Yunbo Tian, Danning Xu, Bingxin Li   +9 more
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Waterfowl of Lutsk district

Біологічні студії, 2018
The waterfowl of the Lutsk district was studied by the author during 1981–2018. 39 species of the waterfowl are registered in the Lutsk district, 13 among them are confirmed on breeding (some of them in some years only), 16 – on passage (1 species – the ...
Khymyn M. V.
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Developing a wintering waterfowl community baseline for environmental monitoring of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island [version 3; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

F1000Research, 2015
In 2004, the Atlantic Ecology Division of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development began an annual winter waterfowl survey of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.
Betty J. Kreakie, Kristopher Winiarski, Richard McKinney   +2 more
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Modeling Waterfowl Damage to Crops Surrounding the Quill lakes in Saskatchewan

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Waterfowl using the Central Flyway congregate on staging lakes before fall migration. The Quill lakes area of Saskatchewan Province, Canada, contains many staging lakes, which are surrounded by annual cropland.
Carolyn J. Callaghan, Bahram Daneshfar, Donald J. Thompson   +2 more
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DuckNet: an open‐source deep learning tool for waterfowl species identification in UAV imagery

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
Understanding how waterfowl respond to habitat restoration and management activities is crucial for evaluating and refining conservation delivery programs. However, site‐specific waterfowl monitoring is challenging, especially in heavily forested systems
Zack Loken, Kevin M. Ringelman, Anne Mini, J. Dale James, Mike Mitchell   +4 more
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Prevalence and genetic diversity of haematozoa in South American waterfowl and evidence for intercontinental redistribution of parasites by migratory birds

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2015
To understand the role of migratory birds in the movement and transmission of haematozoa within and between continental regions, we examined 804 blood samples collected from eleven endemic species of South American waterfowl in Peru and Argentina for ...
Matthew M. Smith, Andrew M. Ramey
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Are migratory waterfowl vectors of seagrass pathogens?

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Migratory waterfowl vector plant seeds and other tissues, but little attention has focused on the potential of avian vectoring of plant pathogens.
Damian Michael Menning, David Hume Ward, Sandy Wyllie‐Echeverria, George Kevin Sage, Megan Cathleen Gravley, Hunter Alexander Gravley, Sandra Looman Talbot   +6 more
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Examining inter‐regional and intra‐seasonal differences in wintering waterfowl landscape associations among Pacific and Atlantic flyways

Journal of Avian Biology
The Central Valley of California (CVC) and Mid‐Atlantic (MA) in the U.S. are both critical sites for nationwide food security, and many waterfowl species annually, especially during the winter, providing feeding and roosting locations for a variety of ...
Matthew J. Hardy, Christopher K. Williams, Brian S. Ladman, Maurice E. Pitesky, Cory T. Overton, Michael L. Casazza, Elliott L. Matchett, Diann J. Prosser, Jeffrey J. Buler   +8 more
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Drp1 regulated PINK1-dependent mitophagy protected duck follicular granulosa cells from acute heat stress injury

Poultry Science
: The mitochondrial quality control system is crucial in maintaining cellular homeostasis during environmental stress. Granulosa cells are the main cells secreting steroid hormones, and mitochondria are the key organelles for steroid hormone synthesis ...
Chen Yang, Pei Luo, You-tian Yang, Xin-liang Fu, Bing-xin Li, Xu Shen, Dan-ning Xu, Yun-mao Huang, Yun-bo Tian, Wen-jun Liu   +9 more
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