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Short Term Safety, Immunogenicity, And Reproductive Effects Of Combined Vaccination With Anti-Gnrh (Gonacon) And Rabies Vaccines In Female Feral Cats, Shiri Novak, Boris Yakobson, Shir Sorek, Liat Morgan, Smadar Tal, Ran Nivy, Roni King, Lauren Jaebker, Douglas C. Eckery, Tal Raz May 2021

Short Term Safety, Immunogenicity, And Reproductive Effects Of Combined Vaccination With Anti-Gnrh (Gonacon) And Rabies Vaccines In Female Feral Cats, Shiri Novak, Boris Yakobson, Shir Sorek, Liat Morgan, Smadar Tal, Ran Nivy, Roni King, Lauren Jaebker, Douglas C. Eckery, Tal Raz

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Overpopulation of free-roaming cats is a major problem leading to negative impacts on animal health and welfare, public nuisance, transmission of zoonotic diseases, and well-documented harm to wildlife. Surgical sterilization had failed to provide a practical solution to free-roaming cats’ overpopulation under field conditions; therefore, efficient and safe non-surgical immunocontraception methods are aspired. Rabies is a deadly virus that may infect people and animals. However, the safety and efficacy of combined vaccination with anti-GnRH and rabies vaccines in feral cats, which often suffer from disrupted health conditions and experienced high stress level, has never been studied. Therefore, our objective was …


Short Term Safety, Immunogenicity, And Reproductive Effects Of Combined Vaccination With Anti-Gnrh (Gonacon) And Rabies Vaccines In Female Feral Cats, Shiri Novak, Boris Yakobson, Shir Sorek, Liat Morgan, Smadar Tal, Ran Nivy, Roni King, Lauren Jaebker, Douglas C. Eckery, Tal Raz May 2021

Short Term Safety, Immunogenicity, And Reproductive Effects Of Combined Vaccination With Anti-Gnrh (Gonacon) And Rabies Vaccines In Female Feral Cats, Shiri Novak, Boris Yakobson, Shir Sorek, Liat Morgan, Smadar Tal, Ran Nivy, Roni King, Lauren Jaebker, Douglas C. Eckery, Tal Raz

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Overpopulation of free-roaming cats is a major problem leading to negative impacts on animal health and welfare, public nuisance, transmission of zoonotic diseases, and well-documented harm to wildlife. Surgical sterilization had failed to provide a practical solution to free-roaming cats' overpopulation under field conditions; therefore, efficient and safe non-surgical immunocontraception methods are aspired. Rabies is a deadly virus that may infect people and animals. However, the safety and efficacy of combined vaccination with anti-GnRH and rabies vaccines in feral cats, which often suffer from disrupted health conditions and experienced high stress level, has never been studied. Therefore, our objective was …


Food-Web And Functional Trait Community Structure Of Predator Assemblages In Pine Forests Under Different Management Regimes, Connor Adams May 2021

Food-Web And Functional Trait Community Structure Of Predator Assemblages In Pine Forests Under Different Management Regimes, Connor Adams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Anthropogenic activities can alter natural disturbance regimes in ecosystems, and thereby affect the structure and function of biological diversity. As many of the world’s ecosystems are degraded beyond natural recovery, well-defined restoration goals are necessary to maintain the ecological processes that provide valuable ecosystem services. Utilizing taxonomic, functional, and food-web approaches, I investigated the impacts of forest management practices in structuring predator communities in two pine forest systems of eastern Texas. The results of this study indicate that the increased frequency of forest management practices such as prescribed fires and thinning operations encourages predator diversity while increasing functional and trophic …


Detection Of Neonicotinoids In Northern Leopard Frog (Rana Pipiens) Brains, Peyton G. Keller May 2021

Detection Of Neonicotinoids In Northern Leopard Frog (Rana Pipiens) Brains, Peyton G. Keller

Honors Thesis

Neonicotinoids are widespread and commonly used to fight agricultural pests. Unfortunately, these neurotoxic insecticides commonly reach nearby wetlands due to tile drainage systems and agricultural runoff. Non-target organisms, such as amphibians, use wetlands as habitat and are likely exposed to elevated neonicotinoid levels. We collected Northern leopard frogs and water samples from control and tile wetlands to compare imidacloprid brain concentrations and subsequent changes in brain morphology. Additionally, a lab-based experiment was conducted to further analyze the ability of imidacloprid and its metabolite, imidacloprid-olefin, to cross the blood-brain barrier. Tile wetlands had higher aquatic imidacloprid concentrations. Subsequently, amphibians collected from …


Ecology Of Estuarine Birds: Differences In Desensitization Of Year-Round And Transient Species, Sarah Thomas May 2021

Ecology Of Estuarine Birds: Differences In Desensitization Of Year-Round And Transient Species, Sarah Thomas

Honors Theses

Huntington Beach State Park in Murrells Inlet, SC, USA is considered a “hotspot” for birds, according to the eBird database (eBird, 2020). The park is also visited by approximately 300,000 people, annually (Hobdy, 2019). The causeway at the park is an area of high human and wildlife activity. Here, the differences in desensitization, or lack thereof, of year-round and transient bird species to the stimuli of vehicles and humans were determined. Multiple surveys of the birds at Huntington Beach State Park were conducted from 22nd September, 2019 to 13th June, 2020. Desensitization was quantified by use of a range finder …


Sample Hummingbird Feeder Resource Depletion Investigation, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Sample Hummingbird Feeder Resource Depletion Investigation, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 13: Birds in the Urban Landscape

No abstract provided.


Saving The Blue Butterfly, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Saving The Blue Butterfly, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Ngss Standards Alignment Chart, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Ngss Standards Alignment Chart, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Binder Cover Garden Ecology, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Binder Cover Garden Ecology, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Lesson Adaptations And Extensions, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Lesson Adaptations And Extensions, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Module 10 - Garden Ecology Outline, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Module 10 - Garden Ecology Outline, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Successful Garden Implementation Project Diagram, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Successful Garden Implementation Project Diagram, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Urban La Birds Starter Kit, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Urban La Birds Starter Kit, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Smallmouth Bass Feeding Dynamics And Growth In Headwater Streams Of The Interior Highlands, Brandon C. Plunkett May 2021

Smallmouth Bass Feeding Dynamics And Growth In Headwater Streams Of The Interior Highlands, Brandon C. Plunkett

ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present

Smallmouth Bass have been extensively studied, but knowledge of the effects of temperature and hydrologic regime on populations in the Interior Highlands of Arkansas remains lacking. In 2018, I monitored diet characteristics of Smallmouth Bass, located in streams prone to dryness and representing a range of water temperatures, and presence of potential competitors. Diet characteristics of Smallmouth Bass, Green Sunfish, and Creek Chub were studied in the Boston Mountains ecoregion of Arkansas during the summer of 2018. In 2019, I expanded the scope of the project to search for relationships between Smallmouth Bass growth and hydrologic regime. My objectives were …


Characterizing The Dormancy And Repair Of A Circumneutral Passive Remediation System Receiving Iron And Sulfate-Rich Amd, Garrett Struble May 2021

Characterizing The Dormancy And Repair Of A Circumneutral Passive Remediation System Receiving Iron And Sulfate-Rich Amd, Garrett Struble

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Wingfield Pines remediation system is a ~20-acre circumneutral, gravity-fed system constructed in 2009 to passively remediate Fe from an ~2000 gallon/minute effluent. In 2017, a fracture to the system’s underground cavern caused the AMD effluent to bypass the system, flowing directly into Chartiers Creek and leaving the system decommissioned between 2017-2019. Soil slurry and water samples were collected in the weeks prior to the system’s reinstalment in September 2019 through January 2020 in order to determine the effect of the repair on remediation efficiency and microbial community composition. This study acted as the first to describe the temporary decommissioning …


Using Bacterial And Fungal Inoculation Strategies To Aid In The Wetland Restoration Of Native Plants In Southern California, Amy Alverson, Karina K. Johnston May 2021

Using Bacterial And Fungal Inoculation Strategies To Aid In The Wetland Restoration Of Native Plants In Southern California, Amy Alverson, Karina K. Johnston

Honors Thesis

Planting of native species is a key part of ecological restoration, although the encroachment of invasive species and obstacles to seed germination can limit the success of revegetation efforts. The use of indigenous Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) have been shown to increase the long-term height and diameter of native plants and increase soil fertility in certain studies. Inoculation of seeds with native PGPR have also been shown to increase seed germination. In this study, the effect of different inoculation treatments on different plants native to southern California was studied at two sites in the …


Los Angeles Christmas Bird Count Checklist, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Los Angeles Christmas Bird Count Checklist, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Alphabetical Bird Checklist, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Alphabetical Bird Checklist, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Hummingbird Fun Fact Cards, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Hummingbird Fun Fact Cards, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Hummingbirds Informational Pamphlet, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Hummingbirds Informational Pamphlet, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Hummingbird Resource For Teachers, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Hummingbird Resource For Teachers, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Allen's Hummingbird, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Allen's Hummingbird, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Bird Resources For Educators, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Bird Resources For Educators, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Common Butterflies In The Garden, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Common Butterflies In The Garden, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Map To Gottlieb House, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Map To Gottlieb House, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Gottlieb Garden Plants, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Gottlieb Garden Plants, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Gottlieb Garden Wildlife, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Gottlieb Garden Wildlife, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Gottlieb Numbers, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Gottlieb Numbers, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Good Resources For Native Plant Pruning, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Good Resources For Native Plant Pruning, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.


Conducting A Simple Soil Sedimentation Test, Center For Urban Resilience May 2021

Conducting A Simple Soil Sedimentation Test, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

No abstract provided.