2018 Fall Banding Migration Summary, Chadron State Park,
2018
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
2018 Fall Banding Migration Summary, Chadron State Park, Chris Murray
Nebraska Bird Review
In order to better understand wild birds and their migration, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies conducted bird monitoring for the 11th straight year at our fall migration banding station in Chadron State Park within the Pine Ridge Region of Nebraska. Operated in collaboration with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, this station is open to the public and visited by school groups to serve as an outdoor classroom. Among our goals are to enhance the public’s appreciation of birds as well as their understanding of threats to bird survival and the role of science in bird conservation. Serving as an …
Vegetation Characteristics And Bird Communities Associated With Singing Painted Buntings In Northwest Arkansas,
2018
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Vegetation Characteristics And Bird Communities Associated With Singing Painted Buntings In Northwest Arkansas, Lauren Kristina Thead
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
It has been shown that bird communities are affected by the species composition and physical structure of plant communities. Within avian communities, the bird species that are the most localized in distribution tend to be the most affected by habitat changes. My research analyzed plant and bird communities found with the Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris Linnaeus), a locally common but declining species throughout much of its range. First, I describe vegetation characteristics associated with singing male Painted Buntings in northwest Arkansas. I categorized field sites with singing male Painted Buntings as either managed for wildlife or unmanaged, based on land-use …
Effect Of Macrograzers (Campostoma Spp. And Faxonius Spp.) On Periphyton In Ozark Streams With Considerations Given To Macrograzer Biomass, Phosphorus, And Season: Mensurative And Manipulative Studies,
2018
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Effect Of Macrograzers (Campostoma Spp. And Faxonius Spp.) On Periphyton In Ozark Streams With Considerations Given To Macrograzer Biomass, Phosphorus, And Season: Mensurative And Manipulative Studies, Kayla R. Sayre
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Nutrient and benthic algal biomass relationships can guide numeric nutrient criteria development in lotic systems. However, herbivorous macrograzers may confound this relationship by reducing the slope of the positive relationship between nutrients and periphyton biomass in streams. I conducted a mensurative field study to determine if stoneroller and crayfish abundance related to algal biomass at varying nutrient concentrations and manipulated macrograzer presence with electrical exclosures in streams to examine macrograzer effects on algal biomass and understand whether these effects on periphyton varied with total phosphorus (TP) or season. Macrograzer density was quantified across a TP gradient (n=15 streams; range = …
Bats Of Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles,
2018
South Dakota State University
Bats Of Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles, Scott C. Pedersen, Gary G. Kwiecinski, Hugh H. Genoways, Roxanne J. Larsen, Peter A. Larsen, Carleton J. Phillips, Robert J. Baker
University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers
Eight species of bat have been previously recorded from the island of Saint Lucia: Noctilio leporinus, Monophyllus plethodon, Artibeus jamaicensis, Brachyphylla cavernarum, Ardops nichollsi, Sturnira paulsoni, Molossus molossus, and Tadarida brasiliensis. Herein, we add a ninth species to the fauna—Pteronotus davyi. These nine species represent nine genera from four families: Noctilionidae, Mormoopidae, Phyllostomidae, and Molossidae. This fauna includes four trophic guilds: N. leporinus (piscivore/insectivore), M. plethodon (nectarivore/pollenivore), A. jamaicensis × schwartzi, B. cavernarum, A. nichollsi, and S. paulsoni (frugivores), and P. davyi, M. molossus, and …
Cryptic Diversity In The Mexican Highlands: Thousands Of Uce Loci Help Illuminate Phylogenetic Relationships, Species Limits And Divergence Times Of Montane Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus ),
2018
CUNY New York City College of Technology
Cryptic Diversity In The Mexican Highlands: Thousands Of Uce Loci Help Illuminate Phylogenetic Relationships, Species Limits And Divergence Times Of Montane Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus ), Christopher Blair, Robert W. Bryson Jr, Charles W. Linkem, David Lazcano, John Klicka, John E. Mccormack
Publications and Research
With the continued adoption of genome‐scale data in evolutionary biology comes the challenge of adequately harnessing the information to make accurate phylogenetic inferences. Coalescent‐based methods of species tree inference have become common, and concatenation has been shown in simulation to perform well, particularly when levels of incomplete lineage sorting are low. However, simulation conditions are often overly simplistic, leaving empiricists with uncertainty regarding analytical tools. We use a large ultraconserved element data set (>3,000 loci) from rattlesnakes of the Crotalus triseriatus group to delimit lineages and estimate species trees using concatenation and several coalescent‐based methods. Unpartitioned and partitioned maximum …
Courtship Behavior, Communication, And Copulation In Tigrosa Annexa,
2018
Murray State University
Courtship Behavior, Communication, And Copulation In Tigrosa Annexa, Samuel White
Scholars Week
The evolution of multimodal communication, where signalers use multiple signal components in multiple sensory modalities, has become the subject of investigation by many researchers. Signaling puts males at risk of predation, so why do males of some species evolve extra signals that may increase this risk? In some wolf spider species, males incorporate many visual and vibrational signals into a display that they use to attract a female for mating. Female spiders are often aggressive toward courting males and so the male display also functions to decrease the odds of cannibalism. Female wandering spiders deposit silk containing pheromones that communicate …
Index To Volume 86,
2018
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Index To Volume 86
Nebraska Bird Review
16 pages, from Aguillon, Stepfanie 103, to Yungbluth, Linda 149
Museum Metabarcoding: A Novel Method Revealing Gut Helminth Communities Of Small Mammals Across Space And Time,
2018
Georgia Southern University
Museum Metabarcoding: A Novel Method Revealing Gut Helminth Communities Of Small Mammals Across Space And Time, Stephen E. Greiman, Joseph A. Cook, Vasyl V. Tkach, Eric P. Hoberg, Damian M. Menning, Andrew G. Hope, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, Sandra L. Talbot
Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications
Natural history collections spanning multiple decades provide fundamental historical baselines to measure and understand changing biodiversity. New technologies such as next generation DNA sequencing have considerably increased the potential of museum specimens to address significant questions regarding the impact of environmental changes on host and parasite/pathogen dynamics. We developed a new technique to identify intestinal helminth parasites and applied it to shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) because they are ubiquitous, occupy diverse habitats, and host a diverse and abundant parasite fauna. Notably, we included museum specimens preserved in various ways to explore the efficacy of using metabarcoding analyses that may enable identification …
Clethrionomys Gapperi,
2018
Morehead State University
Clethrionomys Gapperi, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Clethrionomys gapperi
Clethrionomys Gapperi,
2018
Morehead State University
Clethrionomys Gapperi, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Clethrionomys gapperi
Microtus Chrotorrhinus,
2018
Morehead State University
Microtus Chrotorrhinus, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Microtus chrotorrhinus
Microtus Longicaudus,
2018
Morehead State University
Microtus Longicaudus, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Microtus longicaudus
Microtus Longicaudus,
2018
Morehead State University
Microtus Longicaudus, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Microtus longicaudus
Microtus Montanus,
2018
Morehead State University
Microtus Montanus, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Microtus montanus
Microtus Ochrogaster,
2018
Morehead State University
Microtus Ochrogaster, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Microtus ochrogaster
Microtus Pennsylvanicus Pullatus,
2018
Morehead State University
Microtus Pennsylvanicus Pullatus, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Microtus pennsylvanicus pullatus
Microtus Pennsylvanicus Pullatus,
2018
Morehead State University
Microtus Pennsylvanicus Pullatus, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Microtus pennsylvanicus pullatus
Pitymys Pinetorum,
2018
Morehead State University
Pitymys Pinetorum, Roger W. Barbour
Roger W. Barbour Slide Collection
Pitymys pinetorum
Neotoma Albigula,
2018
Morehead State University
Neotoma Cinera,
2018
Morehead State University
