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Assessing the Conservation status of Neotropical Dry forests using Geographic Information Systems and Optical Remote Sensing
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Planet Earth is undergoing a rapid rate of ecosystem conversion and degradation and one of the major challenges of current environmental science is to contribute to the management and conservation of biodiversity through the development of tools for assessing environmental change. The main goal...
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Fall 2015
The boreal ecotype of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) is federally listed as Threatened due to population declines throughout its distribution. High mortality rates of neonate calves (≤ 4 weeks old) due to predation are a key demographic factor contributing to population declines...
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Detecting minimum energy states and multi-stability in nonlocal advection–diffusion models for interacting species
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Valeria Giunta, Thomas Hillen, Mark A. Lewis, Jonathan R. Potts
Deriving emergent patterns from models of biological processes is a core concern of mathematical biology. In the context of partial differential equations, these emergent patterns sometimes appear as local minimisers of a corresponding energy functional. Here we give methods for determining the...
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2016-09-01
Auger‐Méthé, Marie, Derocher, Andrew E, DeMars, Craig A, Plank, Michael J, Codling, Edward A., Lewis, Mark A, Fryxell, John
Searching allows animals to find food, mates, shelter and other resources essential for survival and reproduction and is thus among the most important activities performed by animals. Theory predicts that animals will use random search strategies in highly variable and unpredictable environments....
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2011
St. Clair, C. C., Beyer, H. L., Gillies, C. S.
The persistence of forest-dependent species in fragmented landscapes is fundamentally linked to the movement of individuals among subpopulations. The paths taken by dispersing individuals can be considered a series of steps built from individual route choices. Despite the importance of these...
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1999
Crabtree, R., Lewis, M. A., Moorcroft, P. R.
The traditional models used to characterize animal home ranges have no mechanistic basis underlying their descriptions of space use, and as a result, the analysis of animal home ranges has primarily been a descriptive endeavor. In this paper, we characterize coyote (Canis latrans) home range...
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Spring 2012
Tropical dry forests are important ecosystems for their high species richness, endemism and their important role in sustaining earth’s system. This thesis utilized leaf area index measurements to characterize tropical dry forest successions and their seasonality in a tropical dry forest in...
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Fall 2015
Movement ecology thrives from a successful synergy of data and models. In a field where experiments are difficult or impossible, linking field data with mathematical and statistical models allows us to test hypotheses and increase our quantitative understanding of movement processes. Owing to...
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Monitoring the effects of climate change in the Tropical Dry Forest of the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve
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Tropical dry forests are among the most exploited and less conserved of large tropical ecosystems. This study shows advanced remote sensing techniques used to determine the land cover status of the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve (Mexico). Within the context of the primary basins in the...