Bats prove to be rich reservoirs for emerging viruses
Charles H. Calisher, Kathryn V. Holmes, Samuel R. Dominguez, Tony Schountz, Paul M. Cryan
2008, Microbe (3) 521-528
Emerging pathogens, many of them viruses, continue to surprise us, providing many newly recognized diseases to study and to try to control. Many of these emergent viruses are zoonotic, transmitted from reservoirs in wild or domestic animals to humans, either by insect vectors or by exposure to the droppings or...
Rocky VIII -- Oceanfront property
William H. Langer
2008, Aggregates Manager (13) 60
Rocky IX -- Geologic evidence helps solve a tragic crime
W. H. Langer
2008, Aggregates Manager (13) 68
Rocky V -- The Bone Wars
W. H. Langer
2008, Aggregates Manager (13) 52
Rocky X -- Birth of a quarry
W. H. Langer
2008, Aggregates Manager (13) 60
Prevalence of Yersinia pestis in rodents and fleas associated with black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) at Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming
Bala Thiagarajan, Ying Bai, Kenneth L. Gage, Jack F. Cully Jr.
2008, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (44) 731-736
Rodents (and their fleas) that are associated with prairie dogs are considered important for the maintenance and transmission of the bacterium (Yersinia pestis) that causes plague. Our goal was to identify rodent and flea species that were potentially involved in a plague epizootic in black-tailed prairie dogs at Thunder Basin...
Rocky VII -- All that glitters is not gold
W. H. Langer
2008, Aggregates Manager (13)
A lightweight sensor network management system design
F. Yuan, W.-Z. Song, N. Peterson, Y. Peng, L. Wang, B. Shirazi, R. LaHusen
2008, Conference Paper, 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2008
In this paper, we propose a lightweight and transparent management framework for TinyOS sensor networks, called L-SNMS, which minimizes the overhead of management functions, including memory usage overhead, network traffic overhead, and integration overhead. We accomplish this by making L-SNMS virtually transparent to other applications hence requiring minimal integration. The...
Rocky VI -- Climate - A hot time in the old town tonight
W. H. Langer
2008, Aggregates Manager (13) 68
Rocky IV - Inner secrets
W. H. Langer
2008, Aggregates Manager (13) 60
Seasonal passerine migratory movements over the arid Southwest
Rodney K. Felix, Robert H. Diehl, Janet M. Ruth
2008, Studies in Avian Biology (37) 126-137
Biannually, millions of Neotropical and Nearctic migratory birds traverse the arid southwestern US-Mexico borderlands, yet our knowledge of avian migration patterns and behaviors in this region is extremely limited. To describe the spatial and temporal patterns of migration, we examined echoes from weather surveillance radar sites across the American Southwest...
Modeling the effects of fire severity and spatial complexity on Small Mammals in Yosemite National Park, California
Susan L. Roberts, Jan W. Van Wagtendonk, A. Keith Miles, Douglas A. Kelt, James A. Lutz
2008, Fire Ecology (4) 83-104
We evaluated the impact of fire severity and related spatial and vegetative parameters on small mammal populations in 2 yr- to 15 yr-old burns in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. We also developed habitat models that would predict small mammal responses to fires of differing severity. We hypothesized that fire...
Breeding behavior and dispersal of radio-marked California clapper rails
Michael L. Casazza, Cory T. Overton, John Y. Takekawa, Tobias M. Rohmer, K. Navarre
2008, Western Birds (39) 101-106
No abstract available....
The California Clapper Rail and multispecies recovery planning
Michael L. Casazza, Cory T. Overton, Melissa A. Farinha, John Y. Takekawa, Tobias M. Rohmer
2008, Endangered Species Bulletin (33) 23-25
The California clapper rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus) lives in remnant tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay, where less than 20 percent of the historic tidal wetlands remain. Listed as an endangered species in 1970 by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), this enigmatic bird faces a myriad of threats, including...
Naturalness and beyond: Protected area stewardship in an era of global environmental change
David N. Cole, Laurie Yung, Erika S. Zavaleta, Gregory H. Aplet, F. Stuart Chapin III, David M. Graber, Eric S. Higgs, Richard J. Hobbs, Peter B. Landres, Constance I. Millar, David J. Parsons, John M. Randall, Nathan L. Stephenson, Kathy A. Tonnessen, Peter S. White, Stephen Woodley
2008, George Wright Society Forum (25) 36-56
For most large U.S. parks and wilderness areas, enabling legislation and management policy call for preservation of these protected areas unimpaired in perpetuity. Central to the notions of protection, preservation, and unimpairment has been the concept of maintaining “naturalness,” a condition imagined by many to persist over time in the...
Ecology in the information age: Patterns of use and attrition rates of internet-based citations in ESA journals, 1997–2005
Jeffrey J. Duda, Richard J. Camp
2008, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (6) 145-151
As the amount of information available on the internet has increased, so too has the number of citations to network-accessible information in scholarly research. We searched all papers in four Ecological Society of America journals from 1997 to 2005 for articles containing a citation to material on the internet. We...
At-sea distribution of satellite-tracked grey-faced petrels, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi, captured on the Ruamaahua (Aldermen) Islands, New Zealand
Catriona MacLeod, Josh Adams, Phil Lyver
2008, Papers and Proceedings Royal Society of Tasmania (142) 73-88
We used satellite telemetry to determine the at-sea distribution of 32 adult (non-breeders and failed breeders) Grey-faced Petrels, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi, during July-October in 2006 and 2007. Adults captured at breeding colonies on the Ruamaahua (Aldermen) Islands ranged across the southwestern Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea between 20-49°S and 142°E...
Effects of 2003 wildfires on stream chemistry in Glacier National Park, Montana
M. Alisa Mast, David W. Clow
2008, Hydrological Processes (22) 5013-5023
Changes in stream chemistry were studied for 4 years following large wildfires that burned in Glacier National Park during the summer of 2003. Burned and unburned drainages were monitored from December 2003 through August 2007 for streamflow, major constituents, nutrients, and suspended sediment following the fires. Stream-water nitrate concentrations showed...
Distribution of breeding Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum ammolegus) in the southwestern United States: Past, present, and future
Janet M. Ruth
2008, Studies in Avian Biology (37) 113-124
The Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum ammolegus) breeds in desert grasslands of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico in the US, and in adjacent parts of northern Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Roads that were surveyed in 1982 and 1987 in Arizona and New Mexico were relocated and roadside survey protocols...
The use of groundwater age as a calibration target
Leonard F. Konikow, G.Z. Hornberger, L.D. Putnam, A.M. Shapiro, B.A. Zinn
2008, Conference Paper, IAHS-AISH Publication
Groundwater age (or residence time), as estimated on the basis of concentrations of one or more environmental tracers, can provide a useful and independent calibration target for groundwater models. However, concentrations of environmental tracers are affected by the complexities and mixing inherent in groundwater flow through heterogeneous media, especially in...
Multistage late Cenozoic evolution of the Amargosa River drainage, southwestern Nevada and eastern California Society of America. All rights reserved
C.M. Menges
2008, Conference Paper, Special Paper of the Geological Society of America
Stratigraphic and geomorphic analyses reveal that the regional drainage basin of the modern Amargosa River formed via multistage linkage of formerly isolated basins in a diachronous series of integration events between late Miocene and latest Pleistocene-Holocene time. The 275-km-long Amargosa River system drains generally southward across a large (15,540 km<sup>...
Using semi-permeable membrane devices and stable nitrogen isotopes to detect anthropogenic influences on the Truckee River, USA
L. Saito, Michael R. Rosen, S. Chandra, C.H. Fritsen, J.A. Arufe, C. Redd
2008, Environmental Engineering Science (25) 585-600
Stable nitrogen isotopes (??15N) and semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) were used together to provide evidence of potential anthropogenic connections to aquatic organisms in the Truckee River, which flows through the Reno/Sparks metropolitan area in Nevada. Crayfish, snail, and periphyton ??15N values, and SPMD toxicity data collected during high and low...
The release of dissolved actinium to the ocean: A global comparison of different end-members
W. Geibert, M. Charette, G. Kim, W.S. Moore, J. Street, M. Young, A. Paytan
2008, Marine Chemistry (109) 409-420
The measurement of short-lived 223Ra often involves a second measurement for supported activities, which represents 227Ac in the sample. Here we exploit this fact, presenting a set of 284 values on the oceanic distribution of 227Ac, which was collected when analyzing water samples for short-lived radium isotopes by the radium...
Canadian groundwater inventory: Regional hydrogeological characterization of the south-central part of the maritimes basin
C. Rivard, Y. Michaud, C. Deblonde, V. Boisvert, C. Carrier, R. H. Morin, T. Calvert, H. Vigneault, D. Conohan, S. Castonguay, R. Lefebvre, A. Rivera, M. Parent
2008, Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada 1-96
The Maritimes Groundwater Initiative (MGWI) is a large, integrated, regional hydrogeological study focusing on a representative area of the Maritimes Basin in eastern Canada. The study area covers a land surface of 10 500 km2, of which 9 400 km2 are underlain by sedimentary rocks. This sedimentary bedrock is composed...
Assessment of propeller and off-road vehicle scarring in seagrass beds and wind-tidal flats of the southwestern Gulf of Mexico
S.R. Martin, C.P. Onuf, K.H. Dunton
2008, Botanica Marina (51) 79-91
We used aerial photography and GIS to establish a quantitative baseline of propeller and off-road vehicle (ORV) scarring in seagrass and wind-tidal flats of the upper Laguna Madre in the Padre Island National Seashore (Texas, USA). We also examined scar recovery through comparison of recent (2002, 2005) and historical (1967)...
