Colom, Pau Traveset, Anna Shaw, Mark

Aim: Intra-specific variation in species relative abundance is shaped by a complex interplay of abiotic and biotic factors, making it both necessary and challenging to assess their combined relative importance in explaining variations across space and time. We used two congeneric butterfly species for which extensive count data and a deep...

Walker, Samuel Lislevand, Terje Meijer, Hanneke

Changing climate and growing human impacts are resulting in globally rising temperatures and the widespread loss of habitats. How species will adapt to these changes is not well understood. The Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) can be found across the Holarctic but is coming under more intense pressure in many places. Studies of recent...

Zheng, Zefan Melloni, Lucia

Attribute Amnesia refers to the phenomenon that subjects fail to report some features (e.g., colour) of a stimulus after they have been asked to repetitively report some other features (e.g., numeric parity) of the same stimulus. This effect has shown strong replicability in the multi-stimuli design, in which there is normally one target among...

Lu, Ke

The current bag filter system used by railway ballast bed coal suction vehicles for cleaning coal dust from railway tunnels has low operational efficiency and generates significant volumes of dust. This paper describes a simulation test unit designed to enhance the dust removal performance in railway tunnels. The flow field inside the...

Tejada, Julia Antoine, Pierre-Olivier Münch, Philippe

Combining morphological and molecular characters through Bayesian total-evidence dating allows inferring the phylogenetic and timescale framework of both extant and fossil taxa, while accounting for the stochasticity and incompleteness of the fossil record. Such an integrative approach is particularly needed when dealing with clades such as...

Wion, Andreas

Wildfires and climate change are having transformative effects on vegetation composition and structure, and post-fire management may have long-lasting impacts on ecosystem reorganization. Post-fire aerial seeding treatments are commonly used to reduce runoff and soil erosion, but little is known about how seeding treatments affect native...

Bowden, Courtney Kiser, Jennifer Miller, Ryan

Pseudorabies virus (PRV) – the causative agent of Aujeszky's disease – was eliminated from commercial pig production herds in the United States (US) in 2004; however, PRV remains endemic among invasive feral swine (Sus scrofa). The circulation of PRV among abundant, widespread feral swine populations poses a sustained risk for disease spillover...

Crawford, Stephanie Coker, Robert Rea, Lorrie

We evaluated the Precision Xtra™ ketometer during a larger study categorizing free-ranging Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus; SSL) pup fasting status, necessitating identification of plasma β-hydroxybutyrate concentrations ([β-HBA]) around a < and ≥0.3 mmol/L threshold.  Whole blood samples mixed with sodium heparin (NaHep) or...

Bosley-Smith, Colby Fraver, Shawn D'Amato, Anthony

Understanding the influence of post-disturbance forest management on tree regeneration is critical for assessing ecosystem recovery and guiding future responses. In particular, the influx of elevated coarse woody material (CWM) following wind disturbance, if left in situ, may impede herbivore access, thereby protecting saplings from browsing...

James, Eric Schumacher, Russ

Flash flooding remains a challenging prediction problem, which is exacerbated by the lack of a universally accepted definition of the phenomenon. In this article, we extend prior analysis to examine the correspondence of various combinations of quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE) and precipitation thresholds to observed occurrences of...