Herd-switching and long-distance dispersal in femal African buffalo Syncerus caffer
Papers in Environmental Sciences
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Ecosystem services provided by wetlands on agricultural landscapes include fish and wildlife habitat support, mitigation of pollution effects, water conservation, and climate change mitigation. Riparian buffer practices are also considered in this…
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Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are under evaluation by the U.S.Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Program's Advanced VehicleTesting Activity and other various stakeholders to better understand theircapability and potential petroleum…
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EPA offers this catalog of CHP technologies as an online educational resource for regulatory, policy, permitting, and other interested CHP stakeholders. EPA recognizes that some energy projects will not be suitable for CHP; however, EPA hopes that…
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As the Nation shifts to renewable energy production to supplant the need for carbon-based fuel, wind energy will be an important source of power. As wind energy production increases, both developers and wildlife agencies have recognized the need for…
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This report provides general and statistical information on forest products markets in terms of production, trade, consumption, and prices. The current state of the U.S. economy is described. Market developments are described for sawn softwood, sawn…
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The U.S. Geological Survey has developed a combined well-bore flow and depth-dependent sample collection tool. It is suitable for use in existing production wells having limited access and clearances as small as 1 inch. The combination of well-bore…
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The U.S. Geological Survey is evaluating potentially useful surrogate instruments and methods for inferring the physical characteristics of suspended sediments. Instruments operating on bulk acoustic, bulk and digital optic, laser, and…
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Landowner behavior is a major determinant of land use and land cover changes, an important consideration for policy analysts concerned with global change. Study of landowner behavior aids in designing more effective incentives for inducing land use…
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This report documents the guidelines that were used for preparing the U.S. marine mammal stock assessments that are required by the 1994 ammendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act, as well as the report of the workshop that led to the first…
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Intensification of fish production from pools in an African floodplain, through water management, fertilization and stocking with fingerlings, was technically a success. Fish production per hectare was 171% greater in managed ponds compared with…
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The duration and sequence of events recorded in Heinrich layers at sites near the Hudson Strait source area fbr ice-rafted material are still poorly constrained, notably because of the limit and uncertainties of the C-14 chronology. Here we use…
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A lightweight, transportable, and inexpensive magnetic susceptibility track for u channel samples is described. The track utilizes a Sapphire Instruments 3.3 cm square coil having a response function of shape similar to that of the 2G-Enterprises u…
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The Social Capital Initiative (SCI), funded by the Government of Denmark, set out in 1996 to assess the impact of social capital on the effectiveness of development projects and to contribute to the development of indicators for monitoring social…
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This article introduces actuaries to the concept of copulas, a tool for understanding relation- ships among multivariate outcomes. A copula is a function that links univariate marginals to their full multivariate distribution. Copulas were…
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As increasing proportions of the world's population, production, and consumption become concentrated in urban areas, the need for urban development patterns that are more ecologically sustainable becomes obvious. A large proportion of the world's…
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Wildlife crossing structures must be monitored to assess their ability to restore animal movement patterns. Although cameras have been used effectively to record use of crossing structures by mammals, they have not been used to document amphibian…
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Chemical treatments have been thought to be promised methods for improving bioactivity of titanium. In this work, the effect of precalcification with boiling saturated Ca(OH)2 solution on bioactivation of titanium was investigated. After…
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In any statistical analysis, assessing the goodness of fit of a model to the data is crucial to avoid drawing incorrect conclusions. U-CARE is a computer application that deals with the mandatory first steps of the analyses of capture-recapture…
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Sterkfontein cave, South Africa, has yielded an australopith skeleton, StW 573, whose completeness has excited great interest in paleoanthropology. StW 573, or "Little Foot," was found 25 meters below the surface in the Silberberg Grotto. 238U-206Pb…
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