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Management Plan

National Invasive Species Council

Farmers, ranchers, scientists, State officials, and many others have urged the Federal Government to consider invasive species issues a priority and to develop a coordinated national effort to address the problem. In response, the President issued Executive Order 13112 on Invasive Species (Order) in February 1999. The Order established the National Invasive Species Council (Council), co-chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior; and includes the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, and Transportation, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Order directs the Council to form a non-Federal Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC) to advise the …

Pitcher’S Thistle

National Invasive Species Council

What is the Pitcher’s thistle?

Scientific Name

Range

Appearance

Habitat

Reproduction

Why is the Pitcher’s thistle threatened?

Shoreline Development

Road Maintenance and Construction

Shoreline Recreation Activities

What is being done to prevent extinction of the Pitcher’s thistle?

Listing

Landowner Contacts

Project Planning

What can I do to help prevent the extinction of species?

Learn

Plant Natives

Conserve

Modeling Viable Mammal Populations In Gap Analyses, Craig R. Allen, L. G. Pearlstine

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Gap analysis is an approach to conserving biological diversity that maps species richness and identifies sites that ought to be protected but are not in conservation networks. Gap analyses based on species richness may have high error rates when species models are based solely on species-habitat association, because patches too small to support populations are still considered to be potential habitat. We incorporated information on the home range and dispersal distances of the mammals of Florida to estimate minimum critical areas (MCA) to support minimum viable populations for each mammal species. Incorporating MCA decreases the area occupied by the highest …

Potential Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Impact On The Endangered Schaus Swallowtail (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), Elizabeth A. Forys, Anna Quistorff, Craig R. Allen

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

The Schaus swallowtail, Papilio aristodemus ponceanus, historically occurred in tropical hardwood hammocks from South Miami to the upper Florida Keys and is currently listed as federally endangered. Much of the remaining hardwood hammock habitat is fragmented by roads and human development that may alter the microhabitat within the hammocks and increase the probability of invasion by non-native predators and competitors. One non-indigenous species that has recently invaded the Florida Keys, and that may impact the Schaus swallowtail is the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren). We estimated abundance of red imported fire ants in Schaus swallowtail habitat …

Potential Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Impact On The Endangered Schaus Swallowtail (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), Elizabeth A. Forys, Anna Quistorff, Craig R. Allen

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

The Schaus swallowtail, Papilio aristodemus ponceanus , historically occurred in tropical hardwood hammocks from South Miami to the upper Florida Keys and is currently listed as federally endangered. Much of the remaining hardwood hammock habitat is fragmented by roads and human development that may alter the microhabitat within the hammocks and increase the probability of invasion by non-native predators and competitors. One non-indigenous species that has recently invaded the Florida Keys, and that may impact the Schaus swallowtail is the red imported fire ant ( Solenopsis invicta Buren). We estimated abundance of red imported fire ants in Schaus swallowtail habitat …

A Caloric-Based Evaluation Of Diet Indices For Largemouth Bass, Kevin Lee Pope, Michael Lee Brown, Walter Gilbert Duffy, Paul Herbert Michaletz

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Selection of methods for quantitative description and assessment of food habits is a concern for trophic investigations. We used diet data for largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides, to compare a caloric-based approach with eight diet indices: percent frequency of occurrence, percent total number, percent total weight, mean relative number, mean relative volume, relative importance index, prey-importance index, and mean stomach fullness. Mean caloric contribution of stomach contents for each prey taxon was used as a standard to compare diet indices. Temporal differences in composition and caloric contents of largemouth bass stomach contents were apparent. Most diet indices provided similar assessments …

Anglers Tagging And Marking Fish: Provincial And State Fishery Agency Views, Kevin L. Pope

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

In recent years, the involvement of anglers in fish tagging programs has begun to capture the interest of managers. I conducted a mail survey of provincial and state fishery agencies to discern where anglers could legally tag, mark, or attach telemetry devices to fish. In addition, I documented current provincial and state agency views toward fish tagging or marking by anglers. Anglers were allowed to tag or mark fish in most provinces and states; however, more restrictions were placed on marking and telemetering fish than on tagging. Of the issues covered in this survey, respondents indicated that fish mortality and …

Yellow Jackets (Vespula Spp.) Disperse Trillium (Spp.) Seeds In Eastern North America, Jennifer A. Zettler, Timonthy P. Spira, Craig R. Allen

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Approximately 70 plant families worldwide have ant-dispersed seeds (myrmecochory). In this putative ant-plant mutualism, ants are attracted to and disperse seeds that have a lipid-rich elaiosome. We observed yellow jackets (Vespula spp.) dispersing seeds of three elaiosome-bearing species-Trillium cuneatum, T. undulatum and T catesbaei-in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and South Carolina. Moreover, we estimated the mean distance yellow jackets dispersed seeds of T. cuneatum by placing intact fruits on index cards and recovering dispersed seeds on sheets placed on the ground surface. Of the seeds presented, 41% were recovered and the average dispersal distance …

2001-2002 Morehead State University Eagle Basketball, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2001-2002 official media guide of the Morehead State University basketball team.

Sm 602 Supervised Ministry Handbook, Daryl L. Smith, James Loftin

Syllabi

This handbook is your working guide for Supervised Ministry SM601 (Parish Placement) and SM602 (Cross-cultural Placement). You should probably keep it in a three-ring binder with your other Supervised Ministry materials. Carefully read through all materials related to this semester (with marker and calendar in hand) before the class starts

Ntid Research Bulletin Winter 2001, Ntid Department Of Research And Teacher Education

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

Table of Contents (TO BE ADDED AFTER SUBMISSION): Evaluating ADHD in the deaf population: Challenges to validity - Notes of note - Making assumptions...and beyond - Project access: A Partnership of success - Implications of NTID research - NTID research accomplishments, FY2000

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network – Winter 2000/01

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

Content:

“Everything is Connected to Everything Else.” by Dave Gosselin, NESEN Director

Global Environmental Change Workshop for K-12 Educators by Steve Meyer

NESEN 2001 Summer Workshops Announced by Dave Gosselin

Research Experience Teaches Students, Educators How Science Is Done by Charles Flowerday

Fall and Winter STEDII program by Mark Mesarch

Electronic Term Papers at UNL by Ken Dewey

“Inside Rain” - Curriculum and Collaborative Effort by Mark Mesarch

NESEN Web Site by Mark Mesarch

Agricultural Science Lessons & Activities Links on Website by Mark Mesarch

Change....New & Improved......Bigger & Better...Easier to Use by Mark Mesarch

Sexists, Misogynists And The Male-Dominated Workplace: Whether Prevailing Workplace Norms Should Discredit A Hostile Work Environment In Williams V. General Motors Corp., Maresa Torregrossa

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Creating An Undergraduate Culture Of Science By Integrating Inquiry, Project-Based Learning, And Research Into The Curriculum, Richard A. Niesenbaum

Innovations in Undergraduate Research and Honors Education: Proceedings of the Second Schreyer National Conference 2001

Full engagement in science includes observation and asking questions, the development of a hypothesis, designing and conducting an appropriate experiment to test that hypothesis, data acquisition, appropriate analysis, revisiting initial questions, and dissemination of results. Here, I report on efforts to engage undergraduate students in all of these elements of science by integrating inquiry, investigation, and research in four intermediate biology courses for all majors. The project-based courses include Plant Ecology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Molecular Genetics, and Physiological Ecology. Students conduct semester-long, experimental research projects and present their results at a public poster session on campus. Using computers, peripherals, and …

Mass Program At Penn State, Serge Tabachnikov

Innovations in Undergraduate Research and Honors Education: Proceedings of the Second Schreyer National Conference 2001

The MASS program--Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters--at Penn State's Mathematics department was founded in 1996. MASS is a unique, innovative, intensive program for select groups of undergraduates recruited every year from around the United States and brought to Penn State's campus for the fall semester. This program provides a unique and mutually reinforcing blend of learning and research activities for its participants.

2001-2002 Nova Southeastern University Center For Undergraduate Studies Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Center For Undergraduate Studies 2001-2002 Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Retrieval And Validation Of Mesospheric Temperatures From Wind Imaging Interferometer Observations, M G. Shepherd, B Reid, S Zhang, B H. Solheim, G G. Shepherd, Vincent B. Wickwar, Joshua P. Herron

All Physics Faculty Publications

A method has been developed for the retrieval of mesospheric temperatures in the 65–90 km altitude range from satellite observations made by the Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) aboard the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS). Retrieved temperatures are derived from Rayleigh scattered sunlight observed in a wavelength band centered at 553 nm. Integrated line-of-sight radiance observations are inverted to tangent height volume scattering profiles, which are proportional to atmospheric density. From these, absolute temperature profiles are calculated using a technique derived from established Rayleigh lidar retrieval methods assuming that the atmosphere is in hydrostatic equilibrium and that it obeys the ideal …

Development Of Geobiophysical Models For Cartographic Representation Of Wetlands In Yellow Creek Basin, West Virginia, Ian Farrar

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In the Appalachian Mountains of Canaan Valley, the warmer temperatures and fading native species are conducive for invading foreign species. Localized relic communities of red spruce, sphagnum and polytrichum are sensitive to climatic change and potential indicators of global warming. Therefore, the development of a baseline assessment and further research are necessary to observe and model changes. Influencing factors in wetland ecology include slope, aspect, biologically rich and diverse vegetation associations, micro-topography, hydrology, underlying soils, and geology. Three uniquely independent study sites have been established along a single transect of the Yellow Creek stream terraces, in Tucker County, West Virginia. …

Parallel Suffix Sorting, Natsuhiko Futamura, Srinivas Aluru, Stefan Kurtz

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

We present a parallel algorithm for lexicographically sorting the suffixes of a string. Suffix sorting has applications in string processing, data compression and computational biology. The ordered list of suffixes of a string stored in an array is known as Suffix Array, an important data structure in string processing and computational biology. Our focus is on deriving a practical implementation that works well for typical inputs rather than achieving the best possible asymptotic running-time for artificial, worst-case inputs. We experimentally evaluated our algorithm on an IBM SP-2 using genomes of several organisms. Our experiments show that the algorithm delivers good, …

Interdomain Resource Reservation Via Third-Party Agent, Haci Ali Mantar, Junseok Hwang, Ibrahim Taner Okumus, Steve J. Chapin

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

This paper describes interdomain resource reservation through a third-party agent called a Bandwidth Management Point (BMP). The BMP of each domain is responsible for admission control, dynamic bandwidth provisioning, DSCP assignment, policy control, etc. We also propose that each domain be free to choose its own intradomain resource reservation protocol.This model solves two significant problems of today's Internet: interdomain dynamic resource provisioning, and scalability of the backbone. The BMP makes bulk reservations with each possible destination domain on behalf of hosts in its domain, and end hosts can join or leave the reservation without being involved with communication protocol between …

Harding Magazine Winter 2001 (Vol. 9, No. 1), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.

Wild With Pride Homecoming 2001 Schedule, Texas A&M University-Commerce

Browse All Subject Files

A color schedule for 2001 Homecoming events held at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Making Sense Of The Senses: The Body, The Brain And Modern Art, Will South

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

I magine, as so many artists, musicians, writers, poets and dreamers have tried to do so many times in so many ways, a universal Ian - guage-one that could be understood by anyone in any place at any time. However implausible such a language may seem, however romantic, naIve, or flatly impossible, its creation in visual terms was a common pursuit of early modern painters, those working in the first decades of the 20th century. At the beginning of this new millennium, we may ask afresh if all these past imaginings and pursuits were but elegant and finely wrought pipe …

Making Sense Of The Senses: The Body The Brain And Modern Art, Will South

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Imagine, as so many artists, musicians, writers, poets and dreamers have tried to do so many times in so many ways, a universal language-one that could be understood by anyone in any place at any time. However implausible such a language may seem, however romantic, naive, or flatly impossible, its creation in visual terms was a common pursuit of early modern painters, those working in the first decades of the 20th century. At the beginning of this new millennium, we may ask afresh if all these past imaginings and pursuits were but elegant and finely wrought pipe dreams, or if …

Context-Dependent Memory Under Stressful Conditions: The Case Of Skydiving, Laura A. Thompson, Keith L. Williams, Paul R. L'Esperance, Jerffrey Cornelius

Faculty Publications - College of Nursing

Two experiments examined the effect of differing levels of emotional arousal on learning and memory for words in matching and mismatching contexts. In Experiment 1, experienced skydivers learned words either in the air or on the ground and recalled them in the same context or in the other context. Experiment 2 replicated the stimuli and design of the first experiment except that participants were shown a skydiving video in lieu of skydiving. Recall was poor in air-learning conditions with actual skydiving, but when lists were learned on land, recall was higher in the matching context than in the mismatching context. …

Undergraduate Catalog - The School Year 1998-2001, Prairie View A&M University

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

The National Honors Report, Volume Xxii, Number 3, Fall 2001

The National Honors Report

Cover Story

"Highlights" by Rosalie Otero ... 1 From Conference Planner, Rosalie Otero, about the upcoming conference, "Fields of Discovery." Otero says, "[o]ur conference offers fields of discovery to participants in the conference. Honors Programs are sites where we discover new academic fields, explore links between them, and stimulate field-based leaming .... Chicago's diverse ethnic neighborhoods, museums, public art, education and research facilities, and business enterprises invite many fields of exploration that have bearing on honors education." Conference at a Glance by Rosalie Otero … 2

A Special Invitation

1. "2001 NCHC Conference Session on Honors Advising" by Bob Spurrier …

The National Honors Report, Volume Xxii, Number 1, Spring 2001

The National Honors Report

Cover Story

"NCHC Stepping Stones: Imagination, Ideas, Discovery" by Joan Digby …1 In her presidential address, Joan Digby, whose conference was titled "The World of Imagination," has always been interested in the creative process. For Digby, honors education is life-long learning, a honing of skills made possible by honors that allow us to march through those open fields of discovery.

Teaching

1. "Design Your Own Space Mission" by Carol Browning …4 Browning, Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, describes an honors section of a science research for non-majors. A good example of using faculty resources to share …

Testing, Testing…, Marie C. Hoepfl

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

No abstract provided.