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A Functional Response In Resource Selection Links Multi-Scale Responses Of A Large Carnivore To Human Mortality Risk, Kyle Duncan Dougherty, J. A. Dellinger, B. Cristescu, D. J. Gammons, D. K. Garcelon, J. M. Higley, Q. E. Martins, S.P.D. Riley, J. A. Sikich, T. R. Stephenson, T. W. Vickers, G. M. Wengert, C. C. Wilmers, H. U. Wittmer, John F. Benson

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Theory suggests that animals make hierarchical, multiscale resource selection decisions to address the hierarchy of factors limiting their fitness. Ecologists have developed tools to link population-level resource selection across scales; yet, theoretical expectations about the relationship between coarse-and fine-scale selection decisions at the individual level remain elusive despite their importance to fitness. With GPS-telemetry data collected across California, USA, we evaluated resource selection of mountain lions (Puma concolor; n = 244) relative to spatial variation in human-caused mortality risk. With hierarchical resource selection, coarse-scale selection determines availability at finer scales. This simple relationship allowed us to demonstrate that …

Planet’S Biomass Proxy For Monitoring Aboveground Agricultural Biomass And Estimating Crop Yield, T. E. Franz

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Groundwater Recharge Response To Reduced Irrigation Pumping: Checkbook Irrigation And The Water Savings Payment Plan, J. Gibson, T. E. Franz, T. Gilmore, D. Heeren, J. Gates, S. Thomas, C. M. Neale

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Combined High Rates Of Alternative Breeding Strategies Unexpectedly Found Among Populations Of A Solitary Nesting Raptor, R. N. Rosenfield, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, W. E. Stout, T. G. Driscoll, A. C. Stewart, P. N. Frater, S. L. Talbot

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Hydrological Impacts Of The Conservation Reserve Program—A Mini Review, L.B.S. Leal, T. Roy, Daniel R. Uden, Karina Schoengold

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Quantifying The Climate Change Impacts On The Magnitude And Timing Of Hydrological Extremes In The Baro River Basin, Ethiopia, S. M. Kassaye, Tsegaye Tadesse, G. Tegegne, A. T. Hordofa

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

An Updated Method For Identifying The Formative Factors In Soil Structure, A. D. Anderson, C. L. Burras, Judith Turk, R. Young, N. Jelinski, C. Moorberg, D. Presley, K. Osterloch, A. Dere, K. Clark

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Social Networks And Transformative Behaviours In A Grassland Social-Ecological System, H. K. Nesbitt, A. L. Metcalf, T. M. Floyd, Daniel R. Uden, B. C. Chaffin, S. Gulab, S. Banerjee, S. Vallury, S. L. Hamlin, E. C. Metcalf, D. T. Fogarty, D. Twidwell, Craig R. Allen

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Risk Landscape Of Hawaiian Monk Seal Exposure To Toxoplasma Gondii, S. Robinson, K. Falinski, D. Johnson, E. Vanwormer, K. Shapiro, M. Barbieri

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Context-Dependent Macroinvertebrate Responses To Prolonged Biological And Chemical Treatment In Urbanized Lentic Ecosystems, M. Chaffee, A. Mittelstet, S. Comfort, T. Messer, D. Uden, J. Mccoy

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Water, Feeding Efficiencies, And Development Of Dermestes Maculatus Degeer (1774), B. V. Adams, Leon G. Higley

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Thermalprofiles Of Cicindelidia Haemorrhagica(Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)Activity In Hot Springs In Yellowstone National Park, J. L. Bowley, C. Heveran, D. K. Weaver, B. Adams, M. Rohwer, K. Willemssens, E. Oberg, Leon G. Higley, R. K. D.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Development Modeling Of Phormia Regina(Diptera:Calliphoridae), A. Roe, J. D. Wells, Leon G. Higley

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Bone Traces And Modifications From Feeding By Dermestes Maculatus, B. V. Adams, Leon G. Higley

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

That Dermestes maculatus feeding can leave marks on bones is established in the literature - that D. maculatus routinely mark bones is not. Our results here, exposing fleshed bones to D. maculatus adults and immatures for almost two months after complete tissue removal, indicate that under natural conditions D. maculatus do not feed on bones. The key issue seems to be the ability of D. maculatus to seek new food sources versus being confined (and eventually starving) on bones. In a natural setting, once a food supply is exhausted, D. maculatus would seek new food …

Coordinated Cosmic-Ray Observing System (Ccros) Concept Paper, Trenton E. Franz

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The Coordinated Cosmic-Ray Observation System Conference (CCROS) was held October 14-16, 2024, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA), and seven strategic priorities and needs were identified.

Water-Level And Recoverable Water In Storage Changes, High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment To 2019 And 2017 To 2019, Virginia L. Mcguire, Kellan R. Strauch

United States Geological Survey: Water Reports and Publications

The High Plains aquifer underlies 111.8 million acres (about 175,000 square miles) in parts of eight States: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. Water-level declines began in parts of the High Plains aquifer soon after the beginning of substantial groundwater irrigation (about 1950). This report presents water-level changes and change in recoverable water in storage in the High Plains aquifer from predevelopment (about 1950) to 2019 and from 2017 to 2019.

Water-level changes from predevelopment to 2019, by well, ranged from a rise of 86 feet to a decline of 265 feet; the range for …

Using Open-Path Dual-Comb Spectroscopy To Monitor Methane Emissions From Simulated Grazing Cattle, C. Weersekara, L. C. Morris, N. A. Malarich, F. R. Giorgetta Et Al.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Retention Of P-Chip Microtransponders And Post-Tagging Survival Of Small-Bodied Stream Fishes, J. Spooner, Jonathan J. Spurgeon

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Reduced Representation Sequencing Reveals Weak Genetic Differentiation Between Canadian And European Larus Hyperboreus (Glaucous Gull), E. Lachance Linklater, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, G. J. Robertson, L. Colston-Nepali, F. Vigfusdottir, V. L. Friesen

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Water Center Annual Report 2024

Nebraska Water Center: Administrative Materials

The report's highlights updates including ongoing research, know your well, and the Nebraska master irrigator launch.

Inhabiting Numbers: Weaving, Polyphony, And Embodied Mathematics, Kristine Barrett

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Inhabiting Numbers: Polyphony as Woven Sound explores connections between vocal polyphony and textile practices, specifically weaving and spinning. Rather than consider music and weaving as separate from one another, the following paper presents the ways in which they are deeply intertwined and mutually constitutive forms of cultural expression. The technical modes of thinking produced through repetition inherent in both—particularly as practices utilizing complex mathematical structures—produce ways of thinking unique to each. Through practice, I suggest these technical modes of making transit across different materials and mediums—in both explicit and implicit ways. The music created through the interweaving of multiple voices …

Dung Dkar Cloak: Exploring Soft Interfaces For Sonic Interactions, Judit Eszter Kárpáti, Esteban De La Torre

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The importance of crossmodal interaction within the contemporary cultural, technological and scientific panorama has evidently gained significant attention due to its remarkable advantages in creating a meaningful, interwoven, and integrated experience. The use and recontextualization of textiles in such exploratory quest into the human senses has proven to be critical. Computational science, algorithmic logic and digital devices have always been rooted and closely interwoven with textile crafts and practices. Recent technological advancements have further combined technology and textile, generating interactive textile surfaces, constructing endless possibilities for multisensorial experiences. In this presentation we will examine how we can weave a sensitive …

Perception And Prospects Of Art Of Clothing Maintenance As A Sustainable Fashion, Boiso Maria Owodiong-Idemeko, Adetona Sekinat Ajoke, Udom Owodiong

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The study focused on the perception of the art of clothing maintenance and its prospects as a sustainable fashion for consumers in Lagos state. 250 respondents were involved. The study adopted descriptive survey design. Two hypotheses were formulated and a thirty-one (31) item questionnaire was the main instrument used to collect data for the study. The statistical tools used were, percentages, mean and Friedman’s test. The result revealed that, 200 (80%) perceived ripped clothes bring dismay to the wearer, 198 (79%), perceived ripped clothes needed to be reconstructed, 200 (80%) perceived consumers lack practical ability to repair clothes. 241 (96%) …

Speculative Futures With Southern California Fibershed, Lesley Roberts

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Regenerative agriculture disruptor Fibershed embraces and gives voice to the fullness of textile paradigms, economies, societies, ecologies, and skill traditions, seeks to address and rectify the sins and the promises of textile making and textile futures, and promotes healthy, holistic wellbeing. Fibershed is a movement of farmers, fashion activists, and makers growing a new textile economy. Founded in 2012 in a bioregion in Northern California, the community has grown to more than 75 chapters worldwide. Fibershed touts a soil-to-soil paradigm that asks us to consider the entire lifecycle of our textiles. It proposes a climate beneficial, regenerative system whose scope …

Wild Silk: Repairing And Healing Our Planet And Social Fabric, Karen Selk

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Wild silk, tasar, muga and eri, is much more than miraculous journey of metamorphosis from caterpillar to silken luxury. Caring for wild silkworms in open jungles is nothing like raising white, cultivated silkworms - it is primal - a whole new perspective of the world of silk. The passage from rearing caterpillars to unravelling cocoons making yarn and weaving cloth that possesses the essence of mother nature, is tightly woven to an ancient living culture in remote forests of central and eastern India. It is a celebration of indigenous, Adivasi people ushering their heritage into the contemporary world while preserving …

Environmental Metrics In Action: Exploring U.S. Superfund Sites Affiliated With The Fashion Industry, Nidia K. Trejo

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Little is known of Superfund sites, long-term clean up sites, affiliated with the apparel and footwear supply chain in the United States. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) manages the clean up of contaminated sites that pose a significant risk to human health and the environment under the Superfund program. A site can become contaminated if hazardous waste from industrial operations are mismanaged or dumped into the environment, in an uncontrolled manner. In this study, a proposed Superfund site (Mohawk Tannery in Nashua, New Hampshire), an active Superfund site (Ciba-Geigy Corp. in Toms River, New Jersery), and a …

Wics Conference 2024: Announcement, Wics Conference

Water and Integrated Cropping Systems Conferences

Announcement for the 2024 Water and Integrated Cropping Systems (WICS) Conference to be held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discussing the theme: Creating Connections Together with the goals of addressing Team Science.

Stage And Discharge Prediction From Documentary Time-Lapse Imagery, Kenneth W. Chapman, Troy E. Gilmore, Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Christian D. Chapman, Aaron R. Mittelstet, John E. Stranzl Jr.

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Imagery from fixed, ground-based cameras is rich in qualitative and quantitative information that can improve stream discharge monitoring. For instance, time-lapse imagery may be valuable for filling data gaps when sensors fail and/or during lapses in funding for monitoring programs. In this study, we used a large image archive (> 40,000 images from 2012 to 2019) from a fixed, ground-based camera that is part of a documentary watershed imaging project (https://plattebasintimelapse.com/). Scalar image features were extracted from daylight images taken at one-hour intervals. The image features were fused with United States Geological Survey stage and discharge data as …

Perennializing Marginal Croplands: Going Back To The Future To Mitigate Climate Change With Resilient Biobased Feedstocks, Salvador Ramirez Ii, Marty R. Schmer, Virginia L. Jin, Robert B. Mitchell, Catherine E. Stewart, Jay Parsons, Daren D. Redfearn, John J. Quinn, Gary E. Varvel, Kenneth P. Vogel, Ronald F. Follett

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Managing annual row crops on marginally productive croplands can be environmentally unsustainable and result in variable economic returns. Incorporating perennial bioenergy feedstocks into marginally productive cropland can engender ecosystem services and enhance climate resiliency while also diversifying farm incomes. We use one of the oldest bioenergy-specific field experiments in North America to evaluate economically and environmentally sustainable management practices for growing perennial grasses on marginal cropland. This long-term field trial called 9804 was established in 1998 in eastern Nebraska and compared the productivity and sustainability of corn (Zea mays L.)—both corn grain and corn stover—and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum …

Program And Proceedings: Nebraska Academy Of Sciences 1880–2024, 144th Anniversary Year, One Hundred-Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting

Nebraska Academy of Sciences: Programs and Proceedings

Program

Aeronautics and Space Science

Aeronautics and Space Science Poster Session

Anthropology: Humans Past and Present

Maiben Lecture: "Platte Basin Timelapse: A Watershed in Motion," Grant Reiner

Applied Science and Technology

Biological Sciences

Biomedical Sciences

Chemistry

Earh Sciences

Environmental Sciences

Physics

Science Education