Digital Commons Network^™

A ‘How To’ Guide For Interpreting Parameters In Habitat-Selection Analyses, John Fieberg, Johannes Signer, Brian Smith, Tal Avgar

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

1. Habitat-selection analyses allow researchers to link animals to their environment via habitat-selection or step-selection functions, and are commonly used to address questions related to wildlife management and conservation efforts. Habitat-selection analyses that incorporate movement characteristics, referred to as integrated step-selection analyses, are particularly appealing because they allow modelling of both movement and habitat-selection processes.
2. Despite their popularity, many users struggle with interpreting parameters in habitat-selection and step-selection functions. Integrated step-selection analyses also require several additional steps to translate model parameters into a full-fledged movement model, and the mathematics supporting this approach can be challenging for many to understand.
3. Using …

Anthropogenic And Climatic Factors Interact To Influence Reproductive Timing And Effort, Susannah S. French, Geoffrey Smith

Browse all Datasets

Reproduction, although absolutely essential to a species’ persistence, is in itself challenging. As anthropogenic change increasingly affects every landscape on Earth, it is critical to understand how specific pressures impact the reproductive efforts of individuals, which directly contribute to the success or failure of populations. However, organisms rarely encounter a single burden at a time, and the interactions of environmental challenges can have compounding effects. Disentangling environmental and physiological pressures is difficult because they are often context-dependent and not generalizable, but long-term monitoring across variable landscapes and weather patterns can improve our understanding of these complex interactions. We tested the …

Post-Pandemic, Translational Research, And Indigenous Communities, Rodney C. Haring, Laticia Mcnaughton, Dean S. Seneca, Whitney Ann E. Henry, Donald Warne

Journal of Indigenous Research

It is well documented that American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian/First Nations, known as Indigenous Peoples, have among the most significant health disparities in the world. Clinical services for these populations are typically underfunded, and Indigenous Peoples often have preexisting and co-occurring health conditions. These factors combined with a multitude of social inequities make Indigenous communities extremely susceptible to infectious diseases, including COVID- 19. This paper discusses perspectives on the post-pandemic frameworks and policies toward translational science as an approach to advance health promotion for community-based interventions, dissemination, and sustainability. The importance of exercising Indigenous self-determination, public health authority, and population health …

The Utah Statesman, February 8, 2021, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Indigenous Utmost Care, Shaun L. Hains Ph.D.

Journal of Indigenous Research

Indigenous Psychology can include land-based indicators of validity and reliability. With the question, “How do we earn our eagles over our schools?”, the youth, community, schools, and Nations began with a commitment with the land. The care of the land led to student leadership and the eagles literally began to fly above the schools. Now the work in health and education could include a relevant land-based indicator that could be celebrated. As the eagle feather is used with Indigenous Voice, now the eagles above the schools became a statement of wholeness. With many systems of support for youth, the sharing …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, February 4, 2021, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Approval of 7 January 2021 Minutes

Program Proposals

• Change the name of the minor from Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies to Equine-Human Science.
• Update the Certificate of Completion in the Plan of Study for Automotive Technology.
• Offer a Certificate of Completion Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS).
• Update the Medical Assistant Certificate of Completion.
• Offer an accelerated Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Science in Environmental Planning.
• Offer a new Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Practitioner of Food Safety.
• Offer a Post-Baccalaureate (Graduate) Certificate Program: Certificate in Advanced Research Methods and Analysis – Quantitative (CARMA- Q).
• Change the name of the Rehabilitation …

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, February 4, 2021, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Approval of 7 January 2021 Minutes

Program Proposals

• Change the name of the minor from Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies to Equine-Human Science.
• Update the Certificate of Completion in the Plan of Study for Automotive Technology.
• Offer a Certificate of Completion Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS).
• Update the Medical Assistant Certificate of Completion.
• Offer an accelerated Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Science in Environmental Planning.
• Offer a new Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Practitioner of Food Safety.
• Offer a Post-Baccalaureate (Graduate) Certificate Program: Certificate in Advanced Research Methods and Analysis – Quantitative (CARMA- Q).
• Change the name of the Rehabilitation …

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, March 4, 2021, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Approval of 4 February 2021 Minutes

Program Proposals

• Offer a Nail Technician Certificate of Proficiency.
• Change the name of the Institute for Social Science Research on Natural Resources to Community and Natural Resources Institute.

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Other Business

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, February 4, 2021, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Subcommittee Reports

• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Other Business

• Missing Course Descriptions (missing descriptions/examples)
• Institutional Certificates
• Email regarding Fall semester

76-Year Decline And Recovery Of Aspen Mediated By Contrasting Fire Regimes: Long-Unburned, Infrequent And Frequent Mixed-Severity Wildfire, Cerena J. Brewen, John-Pascal Berrill, Martin W. Ritchie, Kevin Boston, Christa M. Dagley, Bobette Jones, Michelle Coppoletta, Coye L. Burnett

Aspen Bibliography

Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is a valued, minor component on northeastern California landscapes. It provides a wide range of ecosystem services and has been in decline throughout the region for the last century. This decline may be explained partially by the lack of fire on the landscape due to heavier fire suppression, as aspen benefit from fire that eliminates conifer competition and stimulates reproduction through root suckering. However, there is little known about how aspen stand area changes in response to overlapping fire. Our study area in northeastern California on the Lassen, Modoc and Plumas National Forests has …

Educational Policies Committee Agenda, February 4, 2021, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Subcommittee Reports

• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Other Business

• Missing course descriptions (missing descriptions/examples)
• Institutional Certificates

Data From: Recovery From Discrete Wound Severities In Side-Blotched Lizards (Uta Stansburiana): Implications For Energy Budget, Locomotor Performance, And Oxidative Stress, Susannah S. French, Spencer B. Hudson

Browse all Datasets

Wounding events (predation attempts, competitive combat) result in injuries and/or infections that induce integrated immune responses for the recovery process. Despite the survival benefits of immunity in this context, the costs incurred may require investment to be diverted from traits contributing to immediate and/or future survival, such as locomotor performance and oxidative status. Yet, whether trait constraints manifest likely depends on wound severity and the implications for energy budget. For this study, food intake, body mass, sprint speed, and oxidative indices (reactive oxygen metabolites, antioxidant capacity) were monitored in male side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana) healing from cutaneous wounds of discrete …

Social And Cultural Dynamics Of Non-Native Invasive Species, John Schelhas, Janice Alexander, Mark W. Brunson, Tommy Cabe, Alycia Crall, Michael J. Dockry, Marla R. Emery, Susan J. Frankel, Nina Hapner, Caleb R. Hickman, Rebecca Jordan, Michael J. Lavoie, Zhao Ma, Joe Starinchak, Jelena Vukomanovic

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

Invasive species and their management represent a complex issue spanning social and ecological systems. Invasive species present existing and potential threats to the nature of ecosystems and the products and services that people receive from them. Humans can both cause and address problems through their complex interactions with ecosystems. Yet, public awareness of invasive species and their impact is highly uneven, and public support for management and control of invasive species can be variable. Public perceptions often differ markedly from the perspectives of concerned scientists, and perceptions and support for management are influenced by a wide range of social and …

Faculty Senate Agenda, February 1, 2021, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• EPC Monthly Report – January 7, 2021
• PRPC Subcommittee 400 Code Rewrite
• Title IX Policy and Procedure
• Office of Research Annual Report
• School of Graduate Studies Annual Report
• 404.3.6 Code Changes Full Code/Track Changes (Second reading)
• Promotion and Tenure Survey

Tremblings, February 2021, Western Aspen Alliance

Tremblings

Aspen Forests, More Than Just Trees

Marc Coles-Ritchie

Aspen forests are an iconic part of our western North America landscape. In the summer their lush green leaves are beautiful and the canopy provides refreshing shade. In the fall their orange, red, and yellow leaves deliver breathtaking color. Even in winter their white trunks and leafless branches create stark beauty where we snowshoe, ski, or drive. But if you spend time inside a healthy aspen forest during the growing season you will also experience a beauty in the diverse underlying plant community.

Management Innovations For Resilient Public Rangelands: Adoption Constraints And Considerations For Interagency Diffusion, Gwendŵr R. Meredith, Mark W. Brunson, Stuart P. Hardegree

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

Maintaining healthy rangeland ecosystems requires adaptive co-management at the landscape scale. Because the majority of western rangelands are publicly owned, it is critical that federal land management agencies work together in generating and sharing information. Promotion and communication of rangeland management innovations among agencies is one means of sharing information. Two rangeland management innovations, the Weather-Centric Restoration Tool and Interpreting Indicators of Rangeland Health, were studied in order to better understand agency adoption decisions and barriers to diffusion of the innovations across agencies. Using a mixed qualitative methodology, we interviewed land managers across the floristic Great Basin and in southeastern …

Community Agriculture: Concepts, Models, And Impacts, Bayli Hanson, Roslynn Brain Mccann, Sean Damitz

All Current Publications

Community agriculture initiatives are often run by organizations (1) relying on volunteer structures; (2) growing produce sustainably; and (3) aiming to improve health and access to food in their communities. To clarify “growing produce sustainably,” the Utah Conservation Corps Urban Community Farm (UCC UCF) (a volunteer and AmeriCorps-driven community agriculture model based in Logan, Utah) engages in regenerative agriculture practices, which are reviewed in this fact sheet. Community agriculture benefits and challenges are explored.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, January 19, 2021, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• EPC Monthly Report
• PRPC Subcommittee 400 Code Rewrite
• Office of Research Annual Report
• School of Graduate Studies Annual Report
• USUSA Annual Report
• 404.3.6 Code Changes (second reading)

The Utah Statesman, January 19, 2021, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Coupled Ecological And Management Connectivity Across Administrative Boundaries In Undeveloped Landscapes, Clare E. Aslan, Mark W. Brunson, Benjamin A. Sikes, Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell, Samuel Veloz, David M. Theobald, Brett G. Dickson

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

Human-induced ecological boundaries, or anthropogenic ecotones, may arise where administrative boundaries meet on undeveloped lands. Landscape-level ecological processes related to factors such as fire, invasive species, grazing, resource extraction, wildlife, and water may be affected due to unique management strategies adopted by each administrative unit. Over time, different management can result in discernible ecological differences (e.g., species composition or soil characteristics). Thus, fragmentation in the management landscape can correspond to ecological fragmentation. Different ecological patterns may emerge due to an increase in the number of management units in a region, or due to an increase in the number of different …

(Info)Graphically Inclined: A Framework Of Infographic Learning, Jennifer M. Smith, Marla K. Robertson

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

Infographics are appearing in children’s magazines, picture books, and informational texts. Understanding, and ultimately creating, these complex visual representations of information or data requires higher level thinking skills to analyze and understand how the text and graphics work together to convey meaning. The authors provide a framework for infographic exploration, investigation, creation, and integration into larger writing pieces. Each phase of the framework includes specific considerations to assist teachers in scaffolding their students’ infographic learning. Providing students with support through exposure to many types of infographics and modeling infographic interpretation prepares students to critically examine and use infographics as they …

2021 Report To The Governor On Utah's Land, Water, And Air, Janet Quinney Lawson Institute For Land, Water, And Air

Reports

This report serves as a 2021 snapshot of key issues and concerns with Utah’s shared resources. It highlights gathered data that is available to provide context to these issues, as well as identifies areas where more study is needed. Addressing these challenges will enable Utah policymakers and other statewide leaders to make informed decisions for the future. Under the authorship of 43 researchers and experts and the general guidance of 32 advisory committee members, the report outlines 25 issues and trends to pay attention to in the coming months and years.

Our Potential: A Collection Of Essays From Aggie First Scholars, Volume 1, Aggie First Scholars

Our Potential

A collection of essays from first-generation college students at Utah State University.

History Of Speech Communication And Communication Studies At Utah State University 1890-2000, Harold J. Kinzer

Faculty

This history of the Communications Department at USU, written by Emeritus Professor Harold J. Kinzer, covers early speech instruction at the University, the involvement of women in speech instructions, and the development of the Communications Department throughout University history. Biographies of select faculty are also included.

Utah State Magazine, Winter 2021, Utah State University

Utah State Magazine

The quarterly magazine for friends and alumni of Utah State University.

The Violence Of Competing Masculinities In Emilia Pardo Bazán’S Los Pazos De Ulloa, Zachary Erwin

Decimonónica

Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Los pazos de Ulloa (1886) takes place in rural Galicia against the backdrop of Spain’s Revolution of 1868. Its plot is largely told through the eyes of Julián Álvarez, a young priest who travels from Santiago de Compostela to the once-grand and now- decaying Ulloa estate to become its new chaplain. There, he finds Pedro Moscoso, the de facto marquis of Ulloa, who is dominated by the estate’s peasant majordomo, Primitivo, and who has fathered an illegitimate son with his maid, Sabel, Primitivo’s daughter. Pedro marries his wealthy cousin, Nucha, in hopes of shoring up the Ulloa …

Noticias Del Universo Poético De Rafael Martínez Rubio, Un Decadentista Mexicano Olvidado, Carlos Ramírez Vuelvas

Decimonónica

El artículo presenta avances del proyecto de investigación “Rimas modernas, de Rafael Martínez Rubio (1875-1909),” proyecto de rescate filológico sobre la vida y la obra de dicho escritor, poco atendido por la crítica literaria. El propósito es recuperar y reeditar la poesía dispersa de Martínez Rubio, por lo que se indagaron colecciones hemerográficas mexicanas resguardadas en los fondos reservados de la Biblioteca Nacional de México de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, en la Ciudad de México; en la Biblioteca Pública Juan José Arreola de la Universidad de Guadalajara, en Jalisco; y el Archivo Histórico del Municipio de Colima (AHMC), …

Shifting Critical Approaches To The Elusive Jewishness Of María By Jorge Isaacs, Naomi Lindstrom

Decimonónica

This study examines and evaluates the ways in which critics have dealt with the question of a Jewish thematic current, self-awareness, or perspective in the much-reprinted 1867 novel María by the Colombian writer Jorge Isaacs (1837-1895). While scholars have long exhibited an awareness of Isaacs’s paternal Jewish descent and at times made observations concerning Jewish references or a Jewish outlook in the novel, it was Doris Sommer’s 1989 article “El mal de María: (Con)fusión en un romance nacional,” later included in her influential Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (1991), that launched the current discussion over Jewish themes …

White River Aspen Management Project, Usda Forest Service

Aspen Bibliography

Comments Welcome

The White River National Forest (WRNF) welcomes your comments on its proposal to conduct vegetation management activities designed to sustain and expand aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests on National Forest System (NFS) lands. Your comments will help us further develop the proposed action, potential alternatives, and complete an environmental assessment. The assessment will be used to determine whether to prepare an environmental impact statement or a finding of no significant impact. Instructions for submitting comments are described on the last page. Additional project information is available here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=59419

This Notice of Proposed Action (NOPA) is also requesting …

Integrating Storytelling Into The Theory And Practice Of Contextual Behavioral Science, Carter H. Davis, Brandon A. Gaudiano, Louise Mchugh, Michael E. Levin

Psychology Student Research

The practice of generating and interpreting stories can be examined through a behavioral lens and has many potential implications for clinical practice. However, storytelling has for the most part yet to be integrated into the field of contextual behavioral science (CBS). A bedrock of human culture, storytelling has influenced both individual behavior and intergroup cooperation for millennia. Basic principles of relational frame theory, such as those pertaining to coherence, perspective-taking, and the transformation of stimulus function, may help to reveal how stories derive their psychological impact. In turn, understanding storytelling from a CBS perspective can facilitate the broader integration of …