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The Hot And The Cold: Ills Of Humans And Maize In Native Mexico, Cameron Adams Jan 2004

The Hot And The Cold: Ills Of Humans And Maize In Native Mexico, Cameron Adams

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

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Reproduction Of Besleria Princeps In Monteverde Cloud Forests, December 2003, Michelle Murphy Dec 2003

Reproduction Of Besleria Princeps In Monteverde Cloud Forests, December 2003, Michelle Murphy

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The purpose of this study was to show the occurrence of asexual versus sexual reproduction in lower premontane cloud forest, on the Atlantic slope and the Pacific slope of the Tilarán Mountain range near the Monteverde Biological Station. Eight hundred plants, 400 on the Atlantic slope and 400 on the Pacific side, were examined at their roots for fragmentation and seeding. The elevations of each slope and a comparison of the two slopes were examined using a chi-squared two-way contingency test. The results showed that asexual reproduction (fragments) is more common in Besleria princeps than sexual reproduction (from seeds). The …

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Family Composition Of Vascular Epiphytes Varies By Directional Quadrant, December 2003, David N. Bums Dec 2003

Family Composition Of Vascular Epiphytes Varies By Directional Quadrant, December 2003, David N. Bums

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Vascular epiphytes are an extremely diverse and prevalent plant-form of neotropical cloud forests, and are strongly affected by abiotic factors including light and moisture. The goal of this study was to determine whether the family composition and diversity of vascular epiphytes living on pasture tree trunks differed by quadrant (northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest). It was hypothesized that the northeast quadrant would exhibit the greatest diversity due to the mist-laden trade winds blowing from that direction. Twenty trees in a pasture surrounded by lower montane wet forest in Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica were divided into four quadrants and sampled for …

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Report, Designing Educational Opportunities For The Hazards Manager Of The 21st Century, October 22-24, 2003, Deborah S.K. Thomas, Dennis S. Mileti Oct 2003

Report, Designing Educational Opportunities For The Hazards Manager Of The 21st Century, October 22-24, 2003, Deborah S.K. Thomas, Dennis S. Mileti

Natural Hazards Center Collection

"As emergency/hazards management has professionalized, the need for higher education opportunities is ever-increasing. In order to address issues surrounding higher education opportunities for emergency/hazards managers, this workshop was convened on October 22-24, 2003, by the Natural Hazard Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado at Denver in partnership with the FEMA Higher Education Project with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Fifty-five leaders from the hazards community addressed issues surrounding educational needs."

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Occupational Risk Assessment Of Coffee Workers In Cañitas, August 3, 2003, Luis Duarte, Keith Farrell, Bradford William Lee, Maurice Magana, Bonnie Young Aug 2003

Occupational Risk Assessment Of Coffee Workers In Cañitas, August 3, 2003, Luis Duarte, Keith Farrell, Bradford William Lee, Maurice Magana, Bonnie Young

Monteverde Institute: Culture, Community, and Health

An exploratory study to assess the work related occupational and environmental risks to workers in the coffee farms in Cañitas.

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Use Of And Attitudes Regarding Tobacco Among Youth In The Monteverde Zone, Costa Rica 2003, August 3, 2003, Stephanie Potts, Kelly Yarzab, Rebecca Stepan Aug 2003

Use Of And Attitudes Regarding Tobacco Among Youth In The Monteverde Zone, Costa Rica 2003, August 3, 2003, Stephanie Potts, Kelly Yarzab, Rebecca Stepan

Monteverde Institute: Culture, Community, and Health

Project addressing youth attitudes and beliefs regarding tobacco use, where young people get information on the effects of cigarette smoking, what groups of people are most likely to begin smoking, and who and what influences their choice to smoke.

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Use Of Silica-Supported Adsorbents, Modified Silica Gel, Modified Montmorillonite Ksf And Magnetite In The Remediation Of Selected Heavy Metals From Aqueous Media, Craig Alcindor Ivan Bowe Jul 2003

Use Of Silica-Supported Adsorbents, Modified Silica Gel, Modified Montmorillonite Ksf And Magnetite In The Remediation Of Selected Heavy Metals From Aqueous Media, Craig Alcindor Ivan Bowe

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Pollution of the earth's water resources, including freshwater sources such as lakes and rivers, by heavy metals have been a detriment to the environment for as long as the industrial age of man. As these metallic pollutants accumulate in the supply of precious groundwater and drinking water the need for clean-up technologies to combat the increasing threat is becoming of more importance to government and industry alike. Previous work has established the possibility of using known chelating agents, such as LIX-54® supported on silica gel in the removal of selected heavy metal ions such as copper(II), nickel(II) , and cadmium(II) …

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The George Kell Reid, Jr., Research File : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur Apr 2003

The George Kell Reid, Jr., Research File : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur

Special Collections and University Archives Legacy Finding Aids: All Items

George Kell Reid, Jr., a longtime Florida resident, inspired many students to enter the field of marine biology. For over two decades, he taught students at Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College). This collection of research articles, unpublished seminar papers, and notes record Reid's strong interest in the limnology of Lake Maggiore and marine life in Boca Ciega Bay and other estuarine environments along the Pinellas peninsula. These materials, donated in March 2003 by Dr. John G. Schwede, contain no access restrictions.

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Accent On Learning, 2003-2004, University Of South Florida Jan 2003

Accent On Learning, 2003-2004, University Of South Florida

USF Catalogs (Accent on Learning)

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University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Strategic Plan 2003-2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Jan 2003

University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Strategic Plan 2003-2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Institutional Research: Strategic Plans

Strategic plan for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for the years 2003 to 2008.

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Human Impact On Karst: The Example Of Lusaka (Zambia), Jo De Waele, Roberto Follesa Jan 2003

Human Impact On Karst: The Example Of Lusaka (Zambia), Jo De Waele, Roberto Follesa

International Journal of Speleology

Lusaka, the capital of Zambia with over 2,000,000 inhabitants, is built on an extensive plateau composed mainly of schists and dolomitic marbles, constituting a very important aquifer that provides the city with almost half of its drinking water needs. Recent demographic growth, leading to uncontrolled urban expansion, and mismanagement of the water resource and of urban waste has lead, in the past 20 years, to an overexploitation of the aquifer and to a generalised water quality depletion, putting in serious danger the future social and economical development of the capital. This third world city has, for these reasons, become a …

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Strategic Plan, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Strategic Plan, 2003-2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Jan 2003

Strategic Plan, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Strategic Plan, 2003-2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

The strategic plan for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for the years 2003 to 2008.

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Crow's Nest, December 4, 2002, Crow's Nest Staff Dec 2002

Crow's Nest, December 4, 2002, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The December 4, 2002, issue of the Crow's Nest.

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Distribution, Co-Occurrence, And Land Cover Association Patterns Of Five Forest-Breeding Neotropical Migrant Birds In Middle Tennessee, J. Russell Butler Dec 2002

Distribution, Co-Occurrence, And Land Cover Association Patterns Of Five Forest-Breeding Neotropical Migrant Birds In Middle Tennessee, J. Russell Butler

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

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Baja California Peninsula, Richard A. Erickson, Michael A. Patten, Eduardo Palacios, Roberto Carmona Dec 2002

Baja California Peninsula, Richard A. Erickson, Michael A. Patten, Eduardo Palacios, Roberto Carmona

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

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Usf Strategic Plan 2002-2007, Usf Sep 2002

Usf Strategic Plan 2002-2007, Usf

USF Institutional Strategic Plans

No abstract provided.

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Baja California Peninsula, Robert A. Hamilton, Michael A. Patten, Eduardo Palacios, Roberto Carmona Sep 2002

Baja California Peninsula, Robert A. Hamilton, Michael A. Patten, Eduardo Palacios, Roberto Carmona

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

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The Effect Of Varying Forest Disturbance On Fruit And Seed Diversity, And Black-Faced Solitaire (Myadestes Melanops) Abundance, September 2002, Danielle Leah Wood Sep 2002

The Effect Of Varying Forest Disturbance On Fruit And Seed Diversity, And Black-Faced Solitaire (Myadestes Melanops) Abundance, September 2002, Danielle Leah Wood

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

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The Effects Of Distance To The Forest Edge On Avian Communities At Ficus Pertusa (Moraceae), September 2002, Julie R. Gilbertson Sep 2002

The Effects Of Distance To The Forest Edge On Avian Communities At Ficus Pertusa (Moraceae), September 2002, Julie R. Gilbertson

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This study investigated the differences in bird diversity among 12 fruiting Ficus pertusa (Moraceae) trees at various distances from the forest edge in the Monteverde, Costa Rica region. Each of the 12 sites was observed for six nonconsecutive hours over a four-week study period. Bird diversity, abundance, evenness and similarity were calculated for each tree. A significant positive correlation was found between distance from the forest edge and bird diversity at the study sites (R² = 0.630; ANOVA f value = 17.036; p-value = 0.0021). Crop size was also found to have a significant relationship with diversity (R² = 0.776; …

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An Analysis Of Three Methodologies In Determining Family Biotic Index (Fbi) Values For Benthic Macroinvertebrates In The Tropics, September 2002, Victor J. Rini Sep 2002

An Analysis Of Three Methodologies In Determining Family Biotic Index (Fbi) Values For Benthic Macroinvertebrates In The Tropics, September 2002, Victor J. Rini

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The use of living organisms to assess water quality is a century old approach (Cairns and Pratt 1993). Widespread use of this method of evaluation has been common in North America and Europe (Metcalf 1989), yet it has not been applied in the Tropics. Here I present a test and alternatives to Hilsenhoff’s (1977, 1982, 1987) methodology for assigning Family Biotic Index values (a measure of pollution tolerance) to macroinvertebrates in a tropical premontane moist/wet forest (Holdridge 1967). Samples of benthic macroinvertebrates were taken from seven streams in the Monteverde, Costa Rica area. Hilsenhoff’s methodology as well as two others …

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Pages News, Volume 10, No. 2, July 2002, Tom Edwards, Christoph Kull, Keith Alverson Jul 2002

Pages News, Volume 10, No. 2, July 2002, Tom Edwards, Christoph Kull, Keith Alverson

PAGES

Contents: Editorial -- Stable Isotopes/Swiss Sojourn -- The PAGES Synthesis Project -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- Tales from the Field -- Inside PAGES -- Program News -- NOClim: Norwegian Ocean Climate Project -- National Page -- Switzerland -- Science Highlights -- Extending Isotope in Precipitation Data Beyond Direct Measurements -- Holocene Variability in the Indian Ocean Monsoon -- Isotopic Records of Past Hydroclimatic Change -- A New Conceptual Model for Predicting Isotopic Enrichment of Lakes -- Modelling the Water Isotope Signal in the Quaternary -- Towards a Regional Synthesis of Mediterranean Climatic Change -- Past and Present Ecohydrology …

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The Changing Seasons: Broken Records, North American Birds Jun 2002

The Changing Seasons: Broken Records, North American Birds

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

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Uis Bulletin, Volume 48, No. 2, 2002, Pavel Bosák Jun 2002

Uis Bulletin, Volume 48, No. 2, 2002, Pavel Bosák

UIS Bulletin

Contents: Errata and Changes -- From Commissions and Working Groups -- From Member Countries and Regions -- From the FEALC -- Invitations -- New Books -- Obituaries -- Speleological Events

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Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 30, No. 2, June 2002, Lois Lyles, Paul Nelson Jun 2002

Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 30, No. 2, June 2002, Lois Lyles, Paul Nelson

Cave Research Foundation Newsletter

Contents: Message from the Editor -- President's Message -- Loop Closures for Cave Surveys Within the CRF Database -- A Scattering of Jades -- 2002 CRF Member Address List -- Obituaries -- CRF Annual Report Preview -- Announcements -- Regional Expedition Reports -- 2001-2002 Expedition Calendar

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The Weekly Challenger, May 9, 2002, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al May 2002

The Weekly Challenger, May 9, 2002, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The May 9, 2002, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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The Weekly Challenger, May 2, 2002, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al May 2002

The Weekly Challenger, May 2, 2002, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The May 2, 2002, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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Mist Variation And Epiphytic Orchid Abundance In A Monteverde Cloud Forest, May 2002, Christopher Frohlich May 2002

Mist Variation And Epiphytic Orchid Abundance In A Monteverde Cloud Forest, May 2002, Christopher Frohlich

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

There has been an observed increase in the frequency of days with no mist during the dry season in Monteverde (Pounds et al. 1999). This trend towards an increasingly dry environment could have detrimental effects on epiphytic orchids. The purpose of this project was to investigate the effect of mist level as well as mist frequency and branch direction on orchid abundance in 12 Daphnopsis americana (Lauraceae) host trees. Mist collectors were placed on 24 sample branches within the first horizontal angle of primary branches and mist was collected for eight days from all directions. Abundance counts of total orchids …

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Minutes, Library Staff Meeting, January 29, 2002, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Jan 2002

Minutes, Library Staff Meeting, January 29, 2002, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Library Staff Meetings

Minutes from the January 29, 2002, meeting of the staff of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

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Abstracts Of Wader Theses, P. Battley, S. E. A. Le V. Dit Durell, M. Eaton, J. Smart, Y. Zharikov Jan 2002

Abstracts Of Wader Theses, P. Battley, S. E. A. Le V. Dit Durell, M. Eaton, J. Smart, Y. Zharikov

Wader Study Group Bulletin

No abstract provided.

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Full Issue, Studies In Avian Biology Jan 2002

Full Issue, Studies In Avian Biology

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

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